“A huge shock” – Cameron Rogers beats Filippo Ganna to win Tour of Austria prologue

Australian 19-year-old Cameron Rogers (Lidl-Trek Future) sat in the hot seat during the 2.1-ranked Tour of Austria prologue, expecting to relinquish first place as two-time time trial world champion and five-time Italian champion Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) charged towards the line.

But when the clock stopped, Rogers had won by a full second. The nephew of retired three-time time trial world champion Michael Rogers had claimed his first victory in a UCI-ranked elite race on the 3km course in the centre of St. Pölten, the capital of Lower Austria.

Rogers made a big impression in Australia as a junior, winning the U19 road title in January 2022 and in April of that year the 17-year-old also set a junior national track record in the 3,000m individual pursuit at the Oceania Championships in Brisbane. The Canberra rider raced with the Lotto Dstny Development team in 2023 before heading into the 2024 season with Lidl-Trek Future, where he is one of the youngest riders on that continental team.