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 RESULTSOLYMPIC 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 |
NEWS
" I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd wear a rainbow jersey."