Leigh Howard | Geelong CC
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Leigh Howard (18/10/1989) began cycling at the age of 9 in 1997 in a track cycling competition at his local Geelong Cycling Club.
In 2008 he won his first elite World Championship silver medal in the omnium silver before claiming the omnium world title one year later in 2009. In 2010, he won the first of two Madison world crowns with Cameron Meyer with the pair successfully defending their title in 2011. In 2018, with Alex Porter, Sam Welsford and Kelland O’Brien, he teamed to become the first team in history to break the three-minute (3:49.804) fifty-second barrier on their way to winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Howard was also part of the quartet with Alex Porter, Sam Welsford and Kelland O’Brien which smashed their world record at the 2019 Track Worlds Championships in Poland with 3min 48.012secs. At the 2020 Track Worlds Championships in Germany, Porter, Welsford, Howard, Scott and Plapp (3:50.015) fell just two-hundredths of a second off the podium when they finished fourth. On the road, Leigh has spent time with professional Teams such as Team HTC- Columbia, GreenEDGE, IAM Cycling and Aqua Blue Sport and has contested all three Grand Tours. MAJOR RESULTSOLYMPIC GAMES
Aiming for Tokyo 2020 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
2018 GOLD COAST Gold Team Pursuit WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
2020 Berlin GER 4th Team Pursuit (Sam Welsford, Alex Porter, Cameron Scott, Leigh Howard, Luke Plapp) *world record 2019 Pruszkow POL GOLD Team Pursuit (Sam Welsford, Kelland O'Brien, Alex Porter, Cameron Scott, Leigh Howard) *world record 2012 TRACK WORLDS Bronze Madison (with Meyer) 2011 TRACK WORLDS GOLD Madison (with Meyer) 2010 TRACK WORLDS GOLD Madison (with Meyer) Silver Omnium 2009 TRACK WORLDS GOLD Omnium Silver Madison Silver Team Pursuit 2008 TRACK WORLDS Silver Omnium National Championships
2019 TRACK Bronze Madison 2019 TRACK GOLD Team Pursuit GOLD Madison 2018 TRACK GOLD Team Pursuit Silver Madison 2016 TRACK Silver Madison 2012 TRACK GOLD Madison 2009 TRACK Bronze Individual Pursuit Silver Team Pursuit 2008 TRACK GOLD Scratch Race GOLD Madison GOLD Team Pursuit Silver Individual Pursuit 2008 TRACK Bronze Madison |
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