Glenn O'Shea

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Glenn O'Shea Road cycling
Glenn O'Shea (2012)
Glenn O'Shea (2012)
To person
Date of birth June 14, 1989
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Train / street
End of career 2016
Most important successes
Olympic games
2012 Zilveren medaille.svg - team pursuit
Last updated: May 11, 2018

Glenn O'Shea (born June 14, 1989 in Swan Hill , Victoria ) is a former Australian track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Glenn O'Shea won the gold medal in the junior class scratch at the Oceania Games 2006 in Melbourne . The next year he became Australian championship points race in the junior class and in the Madison elite class. At the junior track cycling world championships in Aguascalientes , he won the silver medal in Madison together with Leigh Howard and gold in the Omnium and in the team pursuit . In addition, he was Oceania champion in 2008 in Omnium and Scratch. In 2008, O'Shea won the Team Pursuit, Madison and Omnium competitions at the Australian Championship. Together with Leigh Howard he won the UIV Cup races in Amsterdam and Munich in 2008 . At the Track Cycling World Cup in Melbourne in 2008/09 , O'Shea was successful in the points race. In 2009 he became a two-time Australian champion, in scratch and points.

2011 Glenn O'Shea was again Australian champion in the team pursuit. At the first run of the Track Cycling World Cup 2011/2012 in Astana , Kazakhstan , he was the most successful participant, with two first places, in the two-man team driving with Alexander Edmondson , and in the single pursuit , as well as a second place in the team pursuit. At the UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne in 2012 , he was world champion in the Omnium . The following year, at the World Railroad Championships in Minsk , he was again world champion, this time in the team pursuit, together with Edmondson, Michael Hepburn and Alexander Morgan ; in the Omnium he won bronze.

In 2016 O'Shea was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished seventh in the Omnium.

Successes - rail

2006
  • gold Oceania Games - Scratch (Juniors)
2007
  • World Champion World Champion - Omnium (Juniors)
  • World ChampionWorld Champion - Team Pursuit (Juniors) (with Jack Bobridge , Leigh Howard and Travis Meyer )
  • gold Oceania Champion - Omnium
  • gold Oceania Champion - Scratch
  • MaillotAustralia.PNGAustralian Champion - Points Race (Juniors), Madison (with Jack Bobridge )
2008
2009
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016

Successes - road

2013
2016

Teams

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personal data
SURNAME O'Shea, Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian track and road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Swan Hill , Victoria