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| Born | 3 March 2003 Dubbo, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 World Championships [2] and 2025 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup. He is the 2025 Australian elite men's keirin champion. [3]
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 [4] for an U17 rider of 10.724 seconds at the 2019 Australian Junior Track National Championships. [5] In the same year he rode as an U19 cyclist at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships [6] in Invercargill, New Zealand where he won the Oceania U19 sprint and keirin titles. [7]
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. [8]
In the 2024/2025 season he won the UCI C1 event in Melbourne, Australia. [9] In the 2025 Oceania Track Championships, he took gold [10] as part of the Australian men's team sprint team, was second in the individual sprint, and third in the keirin. [11]
At the 2025 UCI Track Cycling Nation Cup in Turkey, he took bronze as part of the Australian men's team sprint team, [12] finished fifth in the individual sprint with a qualifying time of 9.381 seconds and finished sixth in the keirin event. [13]
At the 2025 UCI Track World Championships in Chile, he took bronze as part of the Australian men's team sprint team. [14] He also finished ninth in the men's Sprint Event. [15]
At the 2025 Australian Track National Championships he took his first elite individual national title, winning gold in the elite men's keirin. [3]