| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 March 2003 Dubbo, New South Wales |
| Height | 190 cm (6ft 2in) |
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Track |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprint |
| Major wins | |
| 2025 Australian elite men's kierin champion 2025 Oceania team sprint champion 2024 Oceania team sprint champion | |
Daniel Barber (born 3 March 2003) is an Australian track cyclist [1] who competes in sprinting events. He won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2025 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup, in addition to a fifth pace in the individual sprint and sixth place in the kierin event. [2] [3] He is the 2025 Australian elite men's kierin champion. [4]
From Dubbo in New South Wales, Barber rode as a junior cyclist winning many U15 and U17 titles. He set an Australian flying 200m record [5] for an U17 rider of 10.724 seconds at the 2019 Australian Junior Track National Championships. [6] In the same year he rode as an U19 cyclist at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships [7] in Invercargill, New Zealand where he won the Oceania U19 sprint and kierin titles. [8]
In 2021 he won three gold medals as an U19 at the National Track Championships, and recorded a championship record flying 200m time of 10.254 seconds. [9]
In the 2024/2025 season he won the UCI C1 event in Melbourne, Australia. [10] In the 2025 Oceania Track Championships, he took gold [11] as part of the Australian men's team sprint team, was second in the individual sprint, and third in the kierin. [12]
At the 2025 UCI Track Cycling Nation Cup in Turkey, he took bronze as part of the Australian men's team sprint team, [13] finished fifth in the individual sprint with a qualifying time of 9.381 seconds and finished sixth in the kierin event. [2]
At the 2025 Australian Track National Championships he took his first elite individual national title, winning gold in the elite men's kierin. [4]