Kelland O'Brien | St KiLDA CC (VIC)
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Melbourne's O'Brien (22/5/1998) began his green and gold journey in 2015 with the Australian Under 19 team for the 2015 World Championships where he won Madison gold and team pursuit bronze.
In 2017, he graduated to the elite ranks where he claimed dual Oceania crowns and his maiden elite world title at the 2017 World Championships in Hong Kong. There he also won bronze in the individual pursuit in a personal best time. 2018 netted O'Brien dual national and dual Oceania crowns, plus World Cup gold, with the season highlight being when he teamed with Sam Welsford, Leigh Howard and Alex Porter 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. O'Brien kickstarted 2019 by defending the team pursuit world title, and grabbing three national crowns. On the road in 2019, O'Brien took the GC honours at the National Road Series' Tour of the Great South Coast. With over half a dozen track national titles to his name, O'Brien broke through to win his maiden road national crown in 2020 after winning the Under 23 Criterium Championships in January. MAJOR RESULTSOLYMPIC GAMES
Targeting Tokyo 2020 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 2017 Hong Kong GOLD Individual Pursuit JUNIORS 2010 Italy (U19) GOLD Team Pursuit GOLD Points Race National Championships
ROAD 2020 Ballarat GOLD Under 23 Criterium TRACK 2020 Various GOLD Madison 2019 Brisbane GOLD Scratch GOLD Madison GOLD Team Pursuit 2018 Brisbane GOLD Points race GOLD Team Pursuit 2017 Brisbane 2nd Time Trial 2nd Scratch Race 2nd Madison 4th Individual Pursuit 2016 (Under 19) GOLD Team Pursuit, Omnium, Points Race, Individual Pursuit, Scratch Race. SILVER Time Trial 2015 (Under 19) 3rd Individual Pursuit; 3rd Team Pursuit |
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