Sam Welsford

JERSEYS

4x WORLD CHAMPION

7x NATIONAL CHAMPion

SAM WELSFORD | Northern BEACHES CC (WA)

Having begun riding when he was 8, Sam Welsford (born 19/01/1996) showed his potential as a junior winning back-to-back team pursuit world titles in 2013 and 2014. He would soon get his chance in the senior ranks and it wasn’t long before Welsford claimed World Cup gold.

He was a part of the Australian team that were victorious at the 2016 World Championships in London, helping him to book his spot for his first Olympic Games in Rio.

There, Welsford helped the Aussies finish third in qualification before they won their first round clash with Denmark to move through to the final where they took on Great Britain for gold. The Aussies went out hard but the British reeled them in and took the win while breaking the world record as Welsford, Michael Hepburn, Alex Edmondson, Jack Bobridge and Callum Scotson took home silver.

With Alex Porter, Leigh Howard and Kelland O’Brien, Sam 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.

The quartet then smashed this at the 2019 Track Worlds Championships in Podium with 3min 48.012sec, with Welsford winning two golds in the space of 30 minutes at the Championships after taking top honours in the men's scratch.

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.

MAJOR RESULTS

OLYMPIC GAMES

2016 Rio BRA
SILVER Team Pursuit

COMMONWEALTH GAMES

2018 GOLD COAST
GOLD Team Pursuit (Sam Welsford, Kelland O'Brien, Alex Porter, Leigh Howard) *world record

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2019 Pruszkow POL
GOLD Team Pursuit (Sam Welsford, Kelland O'Brien, Alex Porter, Cameron Scott, Leigh Howard) *world record
GOLD Scratch

2017 Hong Kong HKG
GOLD Team Pursuit (With Meyer, O'Brien, Porter, Wight & Yallouris)
7th Omnium

2016 London GBR
GOLD Team Pursuit

JUNIORS

2014 Gwang Myeong KOR (Under 19)
GOLD Team Pursuit
2nd Omnium
4th Madison

2013 Glasgow GBR (Under 19)
GOLD Team Pursuit
3rd Madison

National Championships

2018
1st Omnium

2018 (Under 23)
3rd Criterium

2017
1st Madison
1st Team Pursuit
1st Scratch Race
3rd Points Race

2016
1st Individual Pursuit
2nd Omnium
4th Scratch Race
5th Madison

2016 (Under 23)
2nd Criterium

2015
2nd Points Race
2nd Scratch Race
4th Team Pursuit
5th Omnium

2014 (Under 19)
1st Omnium
2nd Team Pursuit
2nd Madison
3rd Individual Pursuit
3rd Scratch Race

2013 (Under 19)
1st Points Race
1st Scratch Race
3rd Madison
4th Individual Pursuit
4th Team Pursuit