Rohan Dennis (cycling) won gold in men’s individual road time trial at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. It was the South Australian rider’s third Games appearance, having won silver in the event in Glasgow in 2014 as well as competing on the road four years earlier in Delhi. 

Dennis began his career on the track when he was 14 after being identified by the South Australian Institute of Sport as having the physical attributes of a champion cyclist. By 2009, he was a member of Australia’s world champion team pursuit quartet. He went on to win another pursuit world title in 2011 before claiming a silver medal at the London Olympics a year later. Shortly after, he moved to the road circuit full-time and went to his second Olympics in Rio as one of the favourites in the time trial where a snapped handlebar extension almost certainly cost him a place on the podium.

He bounced back to win consecutive individual road time trial world titles in 2018 and 2019, having also finished on five straight team time trial podiums in 2014 and 2015 (gold), 2016 and 2017 (silver) and 2018 (bronze). He claimed bronze in the individual road time trial at his third Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, Australia’s first Olympic medal in the event.

Dennis is one of only four Australians to win a stage of all three grand tours: he wore the yellow, green and white jerseys in the 2015 Tour de France after winning the prologue time trial; the red, green and white jerseys after winning the first stage of the Vuelta Espana in 2018 and held the pink jersey for four days after winning the first stage of the Giro d’Italia the same year. His other elite-level overall road wins include the Tour of Alberta (2013), the Tour Down Under and USA Pro Cycling Challenge (2015), and the Tour la Provence (2017).

Dennis, who was married to Melissa Hoskins from February 2018 until her death in December 2023, announced his retirement from professional cycling in February 2023.