Leigh Howard

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Leigh Howard
2018 2019 UCI Track World Cup Berlin 061.jpg
Howard in 2018
Personal information
Full nameLeigh Howard
Born (1989-10-18) 18 October 1989 (age 35)
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur teams
0Geelong CC
2009 Australian Institute of Sport
2009Team Toshiba
Professional teams
2010–2011 Team HTC–Columbia
2012–2015 GreenEDGE [1]
2016 IAM Cycling
2017 Aqua Blue Sport
2018–2019 ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast
Major wins
Track
Madison, World Championships (2010, 2011)
Omnium, World Championships (2009)
Team pursuit, World Championships (2019)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Pruszków Omnium
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Ballerup Madison
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Apeldoorn Madison
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Manchester Omnium
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2010 Ballerup Omnium
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 Pruszków Madison
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 Pruszków Team pursuit
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Melbourne Madison
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Team pursuit

Leigh Howard (born 18 October 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in both the Men's Madison and Men's Team Pursuit. Howard was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Sam Weisford and Alexander Porter. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Howard 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]

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Career

Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Howard now resides in Waurn Ponds, Victoria. [3] He began cycling competitively at the age of 10 and first represented Australia in 2005 at the age of 16. [3] Howard is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder, and initially trained as an automobile electrician. [3]

Howard won the bronze medal in the omnium event at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He went on to take several medals in round 2 and 4 of the 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics. In 2009, he again won a medal in the omnium at the World Championships, this time taking gold, he also took the silver medal in both the madison and team pursuit. [3] Howard also had success on the road in 2009, winning stages 1 and 3 of the Tour of Japan.

Howard become a professional rider in 2010 with Team HTC–Columbia. [4] In his first professional race with team HTC Columbia, Howard won the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman. Impressively, Howard finished ahead of Daniele Bennati, Tom Boonen and Tyler Farrar on the stage. After two years with the team, Howard moved to GreenEDGE for the 2012 season. [1] In November 2015 IAM Cycling announced that Howard would join them for the 2016 season, with a role as part of the sprint train for Matteo Pelucchi. [5]

Howard last rode for UCI Continental team Pro Racing Sunshine Coast. [6]

Major results

Road

2006
3rd Time trial, National Junior Championships
2007
Tour of Tasmania
1st Stages 1, 4 & 7
2008
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of the Murray River
1st Stages 5 & 13
1st Coppa Colli Briantei Internazionale
Tour of Gippsland
1st Stages 6 & 8
Tour of Tasmania
1st Stages 1 & 8
1st Stage 2 Australian Cycling Grand Prix
10th Overall Tour de Berlin
1st Stage 2
2009
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Gippsland
1st Stages 2, 3, 6 & 9
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Okolo Slovenska
1st Classic Astico – Brenta
Tour of Japan
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stages 1, 3 & 7
1st Stage 1 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
4th Circuito del Porto
8th Giro del Belvedere
2010 (2 pro wins)
1st Jersey yellow flanders.svg Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
1st Stage 4 Tour of Oman
1st Jersey blue.svg Sprints classification, Bayern–Rundfahrt
2011 (1)
1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer
3rd Trofeo Cala Millor
4th Grand Prix de Denain
2012 (1)
1st Stage 2 (TTT) Eneco Tour
3rd Overall Tour of Britain
1st Stage 2
2013 (2)
1st Trofeo Campos–Santanyí–Ses Salines
1st Trofeo Platja de Muro
8th Vuelta a La Rioja
2014
5th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
7th Overall Tour of Alberta
2015
6th RideLondon–Surrey Classic
2016 (2)
1st Clásica de Almería
1st Stage 1 Tour des Fjords
2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201120122013201420152016
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia DNF DNF
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 172
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 152 142
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

2006
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Scratch
2nd Kilo
2nd Madison (with Alex Smyth)
2nd Team pursuit
3rd Individual pursuit
2007
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Individual pursuit
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Kilo
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Omnium
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Individual pursuit
UIV Cup
1st Amsterdam
1st Dortmund
3rd Madison, National Championships (with Travis Meyer)
2008
National Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Scratch
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
UIV Cup
1st Amsterdam
1st Munich
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Omnium, UCI World Championships
2nd Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne
2009
UCI World Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Omnium
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Madison (with Cameron Meyer)
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
UCI World Cup Classics, Beijing
1st Team pursuit
1st Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
National Championships
2nd Team pursuit
3rd Individual pursuit
2010
UCI World Championships
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison (with Cameron Meyer)
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Omnium
UCI World Cup Classics
1st Team pursuit, Beijing
1st Team pursuit, Melbourne
1st Madison, Melbourne (with Cameron Meyer)
2011
1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison, UCI World Championships (with Cameron Meyer)
1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Madison, Oceania Championships (with Cameron Meyer)
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Glenn O'Shea)
2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Cameron Meyer)
2012
1st Six Days of Berlin (with Cameron Meyer)
2018
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
Oceania Championships
1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Team pursuit
2nd Silver medal Oceania.svg Omnium
National Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
2nd Madison (with Jordan Kerby)
UCI World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Berlin
2nd Scratch, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
3rd Madison, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (with Kelland O'Brien)
2nd Six Days of London (with Kelland O'Brien)
2019
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
National Championships
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
UCI World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Brisbane
2nd Team pursuit, Cambridge
3rd Madison, Glasgow (with Sam Welsford)
2nd Silver medal Oceania.svg Scratch, Oceania Championships
2020
3rd Madison, National Championships (with Sam Welsford)
2021
1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Glenn O'Shea)
3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games

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References

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  2. "Leigh HOWARD". Olympics.com. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Rider profiles: Leigh Howard". Cycling Australia. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012.
  4. ProCycling, Issue 133, January 2010, p. 63
  5. "Leigh Howard, Vegard Stake Laengen and Oliver Naesen confirmed for IAM Cycling". cyclingnews.com . 28 September 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  6. "Australian Cycling Academy team focused on nurturing young talent". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2018. Former WorldTour rider Leigh Howard will captain the team which also includes current team pursuit world champions Sam Welsford and Kelland O'Brien on a 13-rider roster.