sport.wikisort.org - AthleteLeigh 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]
Australian racing cyclist
Leigh Howard Howard in 2018 |
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Full name | Leigh Howard |
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Born | (1989-10-18) 18 October 1989 (age 32) Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
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Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
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Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
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Role | Rider |
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Rider type | Sprinter |
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0 | Geelong CC |
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2009 | Australian Institute of Sport |
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2009 | Team Toshiba |
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2010–2011 | Team HTC–Columbia |
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2012–2015 | GreenEDGE[1] |
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2016 | IAM Cycling |
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2017 | Aqua Blue Sport |
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2018–2019 | ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast |
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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
- 2006
- 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 2007
- Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stages 1, 4 & 7
- UIV Cup
- 1st Amsterdam
- 1st Dortmund
- 2008
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 1st
Scratch
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Murray River
- 1st Stages 5 & 13
- 1st Coppa Colli Briantei Internazionale
- UIV Cup
- 1st Amsterdam
- 1st Munich
- 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
Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Overall Tour of Gippsland
- 1st Stages 2, 3, 6 & 9
- 1st
Overall Okolo Slovenska
- 1st Classic Astico – Brenta
- Tour of Japan
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st Stages 1, 3 & 7
- 1st Stage 1 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- 4th Circuito del Porto
- 8th Giro del Belvedere
- 2010
- 1st
Madison, UCI Track World Championships (with Cameron Meyer)
- 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Oman
- 1st Sprints classification Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 2011
- 1st
Madison, UCI Track World Championships (with Cameron Meyer)
- 1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer
- 3rd Trofeo Cala Millor
- 4th Grand Prix de Denain
- 2012
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Eneco Tour
- 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 2
- 2013
- 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
- 1st Clásica de Almería
- 1st Stage 1 Tour des Fjords
- 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2018
- 1st
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
- 2nd Six Days of London (with Kelland O'Brien)
- 2021
- 3rd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Legend
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Did not compete |
DNF |
Did not finish |
See also
References
External links
 UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team pursuit |
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1990s |
- 1993: Australia
- 1994: Germany
- 1995: Australia
- 1996: Italy
- 1997: Italy
- 1998: Ukraine
- 1999: Germany
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2000s |
- 2000: Germany
- 2001: Ukraine
- 2002: Australia
- 2003: Australia
- 2004: Australia
- 2005: Great Britain
- 2006: Australia
- 2007–08: Great Britain
- 2009: Denmark
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2010s |
- 2010: Australia
- 2011: Australia
- 2012: Great Britain
- 2013: Australia
- 2014: Australia
- 2015: New Zealand
- Pieter Bulling
- Dylan Kennett
- Alex Frame
- Marc Ryan
- 2016: Australia
- 2017: Australia
- 2018: Great Britain
- 2019: Australia
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2020s |
- 2020: Denmark
- 2021: Italy
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Riders in italics took part in the qualifying rounds. |
 UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's omnium |
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 UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's madison |
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- 1995–96: Italy (Silvio Martinello, Marco Villa)
- 1997: Spain (Joan Llaneras, Miguel Alzamora)
- 1998: Belgium (Etienne De Wilde, Matthew Gilmore)
- 1999: Spain (Joan Llaneras, Isaac Gálvez)
- 2000: Germany (Stefan Steinweg, Erik Weispfennig)
- 2001: France (Robert Sassone, Jérôme Neuville)
- 2002: France (Jérôme Neuville, Franck Perque)
- 2003: Switzerland (Franco Marvulli, Bruno Risi)
- 2004: Argentina (Walter Pérez, Juan Curuchet)
- 2005: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Rob Hayles)
- 2006: Spain (Isaac Gálvez, Joan Llaneras)
- 2007: Switzerland (Bruno Risi, Franco Marvulli)
- 2008: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins)
- 2009: Denmark (Michael Mørkøv, Alex Rasmussen)
- 2010–11: Australia (Leigh Howard, Cameron Meyer)
- 2012: Belgium (Kenny De Ketele, Gijs Van Hoecke)
- 2013: France (Vivien Brisse, Morgan Kneisky)
- 2014: Spain (David Muntaner, Albert Torres)
- 2015: France (Bryan Coquard, Morgan Kneisky)
- 2016: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins)
- 2017: France (Morgan Kneisky, Benjamin Thomas)
- 2018–19: Germany (Roger Kluge, Theo Reinhardt)
- 2020–21: Denmark (Michael Mørkøv, Lasse Norman Hansen)
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На других языках
- [en] Leigh Howard
[es] Leigh Howard
Leigh Howard (Geelong, 18 de octubre de 1989) es un deportista australiano que compitió en ciclismo en las modalidades de pista, especialista en las pruebas de persecución por equipos, ómnium y madison, y ruta, perteneciendo al equipo Orica-GreenEDGE entre los años 2012 y 2015.
[fr] Leigh Howard
Leigh Howard, né le 18 octobre 1989 à Geelong, est un coureur cycliste australien. Spécialiste de la piste, il décroche neuf médailles aux mondiaux entre 2008 et 2019, dont quatre titres récoltés sur l'omnium en 2009, la course à l'américaine en 2010 et 2011 et la poursuite par équipes en 2019. Il a également remporté huit victoires sur route, dont des étapes du Tour d'Oman et du Tour de Grande-Bretagne.
[ru] Ховард, Ли
Ли Ховард (англ. Leigh Howard; ; род. 18 октября 1989 (1989-10-18), Джелонг, Австралия) — австралийский профессиональный трековый и шоссейный велогонщик, выступающий с 2017 года за команду Aqua Blue Sport. 4-кратный чемпион мира на треке.
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