Leigh Howard

Leigh Howard
	Leigh Howard (2018)
To person
Date of birth	October 18, 1989
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
To the team
Current team	Pro Racing Sunshine
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2009 - Omnium 2010, 2011 - two-man team driving 2019 - Team Pursuit
	Last updated: March 7, 2020

Back tattoo by Howard (2018)

Leigh Howard (born October 18, 1989 in Geelong , Victoria ) is an Australian track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Leigh Howard achieved his first major successes on the track. At the Junior World Championships in Ghent 2006 he took first place in the team pursuit together with Jack Bobridge , Cameron and Travis Meyer , and he won the points race at the Oceania Games . The following year he was three-time Australian junior champion, in the singles pursuit , the 1000 m time trial and in the Omnium . At the 2007 Junior World Championships in Aguascalientes , Howard won gold in the team pursuit with Bobridge, Travis Meyer and Glenn O'Shea , with O'Shea silver in the Madison and the bronze medal in the single pursuit.

From 2008 Howard drove in the elite class on the track and at the same time increasingly competed in races on the road. Between 2009 and 2011 he won three world championship titles: in 2009 he won gold in the Omnium , gold in the two-man team event (with Cameron Meyer) and again in 2011 with Meyer in the two-man team event. From 2012 to 2017 he did not contest any more races on the track.

On the road, Howard won three sections of the Tasmania Tour in 2007 . In 2008 he was successful on a stage of the Tour de Berlin . In 2009 he won the Tour of Slovakia , three stages of the Tour of Japan and one of the International Tour of Thuringia . After he switched to the HTC-Columbia team in 2010 , he won the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman in his first race , later the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen . In 2012 he decided the second stage of the Tour of Britain for himself. In 2013 he won two races in the Mallorca Challenge , in 2016 the Clásica de Almería and a stage of the Tour of the Fjord .

In 2017 Howard returned to the track for the Australian Cycling Academy . At the Oceania Championships he won the team pursuit with Jordan Kerby , Nicholas Yallouris and Kelland O'Brien and took silver in the Omnium. At the Commonwealth Games 2018 he won the team pursuit with Sam Welsford , Kelland O'Brien and Alexander Porter ; In the same constellation, the Australian four-man also won the track cycling World Cup in Berlin . At the UCI Track World Championships 2019 in Pruszków , Poland , the quartet became world champions with a new world record time of 3: 48.012 minutes.

successes

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2006

Junior World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jack Bobridge , Cameron Meyer and Travis Meyer )

Australian Junior Champion - Scratch

2007

Australian Junior Champion - 1000m Time Trial, Omnium, Single Pursuit

Junior World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jack Bobridge , Travis Meyer and Glenn O'Shea )

2008

Australian Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Sean Finning , James Langedyk and Glenn O'Shea )

2009

World Champion - Omnium

World Cup in Beijing - two-man team driving with Glenn O'Shea , (team pursuit with Rohan Dennis , Mark Jamieson and Glenn O'Shea)

2010

World Champion - two-man team driving (with Cameron Meyer )
Oceania champions - scratch, two-man team driving (with Cameron Meyer ), team pursuit (with Jack Bobridge , Michael Hepburn and Cameron Meyer)
World Cup in Melbourne - two-man team driving (with Cameron Meyer ), team pursuit (with Jack Bobridge , Michael Hepburn and Cameron Meyer)