Kelland O'Brien

Kelland O'Brien

Kelland O'Brien (2018)
To person
Nickname	Kell
Date of birth	May 22, 1998
nation	Australia
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
To the team
Current team	Pro Racing Sunshine
function	driver
Societies)
	St. Kilda Cycling Club
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2017, 2019 - Team Pursuit 2017 - One chase
Last updated: April 18, 2020

Kelland O'Brien (born May 22, 1998 ) is an Australian cyclist.

Athletic career

After having tried his hand at BMX and mountain biking , Kelland O'Brien began track cycling at the age of 15 . 2015 he was together with Rohan Wight in two-team driving junior world champion in the individual pursuit , he won bronze. In the same year he was also the Australian elite champion in the omnium . The following year he won bronze with Cameron Scott at the Junior World Championships in Madison.

In 2017 O'Brien started with the Australian team at the World Railroad Championships in Hong Kong . In the team pursuit , he became world champion and third in the single pursuit together with Cameron Meyer , Alexander Porter , Nicholas Yallouris , Sam Welsford and Rohan Wight . At the Oceania Championships in the same year he won two titles, in the two-man team driving and in the team pursuit and also won the bronze medal in the single pursuit. In the following years he was again Oceanian champion in various disciplines. In 2019, the Australian four-man with Kelland O'Brien became world champion in the team pursuit.

successes

2015

• Junior World Champion - two-man team driving (with Rohan Wight )
• Junior World Championship - Single Pursuit
• Australian champion - Omnium

2016

• Junior World Championship - two-man team driving (with Cameron Scott )

2017

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Cameron Meyer , Alexander Porter , Nicholas Yallouris , Sam Welsford and Rohan Wight )
• World Championship - Individual Pursuit
• Oceania Champion - two-man team driving (with Callum Scotson ), team pursuit (with Alexander Porter , Sam Welsford and Callum Scotson)
• Oceania Championship - one's pursuit

2017/18

• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jordan Kerby , Nicholas Yallouris and Leigh Howard )
• Oceania Championship - Two Team Driving (with Rohan Wight )
• Oceania Championship - points race

2018

• Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Sam Welsford , Alexander Porter and Leigh Howard )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Berlin - Team Pursuit (with Sam Welsford , Alexander Porter , Cameron Scott and Leigh Howard )
• Australian champion - points race

2018/19

• Oceania champions - points race
• Oceania Championship - Omnium

2019

• Australian Champion - two-man team driving (with Leigh Howard ), team pursuit (with Lucas Plapp , Godfrey Slattery and Leigh Howard)
• Six days Melbourne (with Leigh Howard )
• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Sam Welsford , Leigh Howard , Alexander Porter and Cameron Scott )
• Australian champion - Scratch
• Final Six Day Series Brisbane (with Leigh Howard )
• World Cup in Brisbane - Team Pursuit (with Alexander Porter , Leigh Howard and Sam Welsford )

2019/20

• Oceania Champion - two-man team driving (with Sam Welsford )
• Oceania Championship - Scratch

2020

• Australian Champion - Two-Man Team Driving (with Kelland O'Brien)

Teams

• 2019 Pro Racing Sunshine

Web links

• Kelland O'Brien in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Kelland O'Brien. In: Victorian Institute of Sport. December 17, 2016, accessed April 17, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kimberley Seedy: Boronia's Kelland O'Brien represents Australia at the Junior World Cycling Championships in Switzerland. In: Herald Sun. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .