Sam Welsford
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Full name | Sam Welsford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Perth, Western Australia | 19 January 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Team DSM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018–2019 | ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022– | Team DSM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sam Welsford (born 19 January 1996) is an Australian professional racing cyclist.[1] Welsford qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Leigh Howard and Alexander Porter. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Welsford also competed in the Men's Madison where the team finished fifth with a time of 3:48.448 and therefore did not qualify for the final.[2]
Biography[]
Welsford's father was a keen cyclist, and Sam began joining him on rides when he was seven. Welsford worked hard at his cycling and won team pursuit junior world titles in 2013 and 2014.[3]
After spending much of his career as a track specialist with occasional forays onto the road, Welsford signed with UCI WorldTeam Team DSM in November 2021, for two years.[4] He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships winning a gold medal.[5][6] Welsford won the 2019 UCI Men's elite Scratch race world championships less than an hour after breaking the Men's team pursuit World Record in a time of 3 minutes 48.012 seconds.[7]
Major results[]
Track[]
- 2013
- UCI Junior Track World Championships
- 1st
Team Pursuit
- 1st
Omnium
- 3rd Madison
- 2014
- UCI Junior Track World Championships
- 1st
Team Pursuit
- 2nd Omnium
- 1st
- Oceania Continental Track Championships
- 1st
Team Pursuit
- 1st
Madison
- 1st
- Adelaide Cycling Grand Prix
- 1st Scratch race
- 2nd Points race
- South Australian Track Classic
- 1st Scratch race
- 1st Points race
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Team Pursuit
- 2nd Madison
- 3rd Individual Pursuit
- 3rd Scratch race
- 2015
- 2nd Scratch race, Oceania Continental Track Championships
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Points race
- 2nd Scratch race
- 2nd Omnium
- 3rd Adelaide Cycling Grand Prix
- 2016
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
- 2017
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- Oceania Continental Track Championships
- 1st
Team Pursuit
- 1st
Points race
- 3rd Omnium
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Madison
- 1st
Team Pursuit
- 1st
Scratch race
- 1st
- 2018
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Scratch race
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Individual Pursuit
- 2nd Team Sprint
- 1st
- UCI Track World Cup – Berlin
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Team Pursuit
- 2019
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Scratch race
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 1st
- Oceania Continental Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium
- 1st
Scratch race
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Madison
- 3rd Team Pursuit
- UCI Track World Cup – Madison
- 2nd Hong Kong
- 2nd Glasgow
- 2nd Melbourne Six Days
- 3rd Brisbane Six Days
- 2020
- Oceania Continental Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium
- 1st
Madison
- 1st
- 2021
- 3rd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
Road[]
- 2011
- 2nd Time trial, National Novice Road Championships
- 2014
- 1st Stage 1 Goldfields Classic
- 2016
- 2nd Under-23 race, National Criterium Championships
- 2017
- 1st Overall Tour of Gippsland
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 2nd Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic
- 2018
- 1st Noosa International Criterium
- 2nd Oita Ikoinomichi Criterium
- 3rd Under-23 race, National Criterium Championships
- 3rd Overall Tour of the King Valley
- 1st Stage 2
- 4th Overall Tour of the Great South Coast
- 1st Stage 3
- 2019
- 1st Wal Smith Memorial - Casterton 50
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Riverland
- 3rd Overall Tour of the Great South Coast
- 1st Stages 1 & 3
- 2020
- 1st
National Criterium Championships
- 1st
Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 1
References[]
- ^ "Sam Welsford AUS Team RIO 2016". Cycling Australia. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "Leigh HOWARD". Olympics.com. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ^ "Sam Welsford". Australian Olympic Committee (in Australian English). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "Sam Welsford signs with Team DSM for two years". Cycling News. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Start list
- ^ Final Results
- ^ "Welsford wins two golds within 30 minutes at UCI Track Cycling World Championships". www.insidethegames.biz. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
External links[]
- Sam Welsford at Cycling Archives
- Sam Welsford at ProCyclingStats
- Sam Welsford at Olympedia
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Australian male cyclists
- Cyclists from Perth, Western Australia
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Australia
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Australian track cyclists