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Kelland O'Brien | St KiLDA CC (VIC)

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JERSEYS

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2x WORLD CHAMPION

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7x NATIONAL CHAMPion

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 RESULTS

OLYMPIC 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

NEWS

GALLERY

Photos © Con Chronis, Casey Gibson, Richard Morton
"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful"
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