Sam Webster

Sam Webster

Sam Webster (2018)
To person
Date of birth	July 16, 1991
nation	New Zealand
discipline	train
Driver type	Short term
Most important successes
Olympic games 2016 - team sprint UCI track world championships 2014, 2016, 2017 - team sprint
Last updated: June 22, 2020

Sam Webster (born July 16, 1991 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand track cyclist . Alongside Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins , he is the dominant New Zealand athlete in the short-term events on the track in the 2000s and 2010s; The three drivers are also successful internationally, often together.

Athletic career

In 2007, Sam Webster finished first in the junior team sprint at the Oceania Track Championships , with Sam Steele and Ethan Mitchell . At the Junior Track World Championships in Moscow in 2009 he won three titles: in the sprint , in the keirin and in the team sprint, together with Mitchell and Cameron Karwowski .

At the UCI Track World Championships in Minsk in 2013 , Webster was runner-up in the team sprint together with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins , and the three drivers became world champions in this discipline the following year at the Track World Championships in Cali . He won gold in the sprint at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow .

In 2016 Sam Webster was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell , he won the silver medal in the team sprint. He finished 12th in the sprint and 7th in the Keirin. In 2017 , Webster, Mitchell and Dawkins became world champions in the team sprint once again.

In total, Webster won fourteen titles as Oceania champion by 2020 and was New Zealand champion eight times.

Honors

In November 2010, Webster received the Outstanding Young Achiever at the Commonwealth Sports Awards. In 2019 he received a New Zealand Cycling Award .

successes

2007

• Junior Oceania Champion - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Sam Steele )

2009

• Junior World Champion - Keirin, Sprint, Team Sprint (with Cameron Karwowski and Ethan Mitchell )

2010

• Commonwealth Games - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• Commonwealth Games - Sprint

2011

• Oceania Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Simon van Velthooven )

2012

• World Championships - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )

2013

• World Championships - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• Oceania Champion - Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Matthew Archibald )
• New Zealand Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Simon van Velthooven )

2014

• World Champion - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• Commonwealth Games - Sprint
• Oceania Champion - Team Sprint (with Matthew Archibald and Edward Dawkins )

2015

• Oceania Champion - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• New Zealand Champion - Sprint

2016

• Olympic Games - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• World Champion - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• Oceania Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )
• New Zealand Champion - Sprint

2017

• World Champion - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles - Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Edward Dawkins )
• Oceania Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Ed Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )
• Oceania Championship - Keirin
• New Zealand Champion - Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint (with Ethan Mitchell and Zac Williams )

2017/18

• World Cup in Milton - Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )
• Oceania Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )

2018

• Commonwealth Games Winner - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )

2018/19

• Oceania Champion - Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )

2019

• World Cup in Cambridge - Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )

2019/20

• Oceania Champion - Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint (with Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell )

2020

• New Zealand Champion - Sprint

Web links

Commons : Sam Webster  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sam Webster in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiwi cyclist picks up illustrious accolade on tvnz.co.nz accessed on November 8, 2010 (English)
2. ↑ Development work rewarded at cycling annual awards evening. In: Cycling New Zealand. May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .