Jason Niblett

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Jason Niblett Road cycling
Jason Niblett (2018)
Jason Niblett (2018)
To person
Date of birth February 18, 1983
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Train (short term)
End of career 2014
Most important successes
Oceania Games
2004 gold - team sprint
Commonwealth Games
2010 gold - team sprint
UCI Paracycling World Track Championships
2014 silver - Tandem race: sprint, time trial (as a pilot of Kieran Modra )
Team (s) as coach
2013–2015
2016
2017– 		South Australian Sports Institute
Paracycling
National Team Australia National Team Japan
Last updated: November 1st, 2018

Jason Niblett (born February 18, 1983 in Horsham ) is a former Australian track cyclist and two-time junior world champion. He has been working as a cycling trainer since 2013.

Athletic career

In 2000 (with Ryan Bayley and Mark Renshaw ) and 2001 (with Kial Stewart and Mark French ) Jason Niblett, a specialist in short-term disciplines on the track, was both junior world champion in team sprints . In 2004 he took first place in the elite in the same discipline at the Oceania Games in Melbourne (with Ben Kersten and Shane Kelly ). The following year he was Australian champion in the team sprint (with Kelly and Joel Leonard ).

At the World Cup race in Melbourne in 2008 , the Australian trio won the team sprint (with Daniel Ellis and Scott Sunderland ). In 2009 Jason Niblett was the Australian sprint champion .

In April 2010 Niblett received the special award of being invited as one of five foreign track sprinters to the Japanese Keirin series and successfully completed the races in Japan . In the same year he won the gold medal in the team sprint at the Commonwealth Games . In 2013 Niblett ended his racing career with a victory in the Austral Wheel Race .

In 2014 Jason Niblett started as a pilot in the tandem race with the visually impaired cyclist Kieran Modra at the UCI Paracycling World Track Championships ; the duo won the silver medal in the sprint and in the time trial.

Career as a trainer

After ending his active cycling career, Jason Niblett began working as a coach, initially at the South Australian Sports Institute . On the occasion of the Paralympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro , he looked after the Australian tandem riders. In 2016, he received a four-year contract from the Japan Cycling Federation to work with French coach Benoît Vétu to prepare Japanese short-term cyclists for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo . For this he moved to Japan with his wife and children.

successes

2000
2001
2004
2005
2006
2008
2009
2010
2011
2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mailtimes.com.au: "Jason Niblett is jubilant in Japan" accessed on June 28, 2010 (English)
  2. ↑ Benoît Vetu en Jason Niblitt gaan Japanse sprintploeg coaching. (No longer available online.) In: baanwacht.nl. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016 ; Retrieved October 31, 2016 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baanwacht.nl
  3. ↑ Stuart Mc Guckin: Niblett mentors Japan's cyclists. In: mailtimes.com.au. October 31, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  4. ↑ （公 財） JKA ハ イ パ フ ォ ー マ ン ス デ ィ ビ ジ ョ ン #. (No longer available online.) In: jcf.or.jp. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016 ; accessed on October 31, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jcf.or.jp
personal data
SURNAME Niblett, Jason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Horsham