Sam Welsford

Sam Welsford

Sam Welsford (2020)
To person
Nickname	Wombat
Date of birth	January 19, 1996
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
Driver type	Bahn: perseverance
To the team
Current team	Pro Racing Sunshine
function	driver
Most important successes
Olympic games 2016 - team pursuit UCI track world championships 2016, 2017, 2019 - team pursuit 2019 - Scratch
Last updated: September 23, 2019

Sam Welsford (born January 19, 1996 in Subiaco ) is an Australian cyclist who competes in races on track and road .

Athletic career

Sam Welsford started cycling at the age of eight because he wanted to emulate his father. In 2013 and 2014 he won the team pursuit with the Australian four-man junior world champion . In 2014 he started in the elite class for the first time and won two gold medals at the Oceania Championships, one in the team pursuit (with Daniel Fitter , Tirian McManus and Callum Scotson ), a second in the two-man team driving with Scott Law .

In 2016 Welsford was a member of the Australian track four (with Michael Hepburn , Alexander Porter and Miles Scotson ), which was world champion at the World Railroad Championships in London . In the same year he was nominated for the start in the team pursuit at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and won the silver medal together with Alexander Edmondson , Jack Bobridge and Michael Hepburn. In April 2017, he was together with Cameron Meyer , Alexander Porter, Nicholas Yallouris , Kelland O'Brien and Rohan Wight one more time world champion in the team pursuit. In 2018 he won two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games : in scratch and with Leigh Howard , Porter and O'Brien in the team pursuit.

At the UCI Track World Championships in 2019 in Pruszków , Poland , Welsford achieved an unusual double victory: Less than an hour after the Australian four-man with Welsford had won the world title with a world record, he also won the scratch race .

successes

2013

• Junior World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jack Edwards , Joshua Harrison and Callum Scotson )
• Australian Junior Champion - Omnium

2014

• Junior World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Alexander Porter , Daniel Fitter and Callum Scotson )
• Junior World Championship - Omnium
• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit (with Daniel Fitter , Tirian McManus and Callum Scotson ), two-man team driving (with Scott Law )

2015

• Oceania Championship - Scratch

2016

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Alexander Edmondson , Jack Bobridge and Michael Hepburn )
• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Michael Hepburn , Alexander Porter and Miles Scotson )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong - Team Pursuit (with Alexander Porter , Miles Scotson and Rohan Wight )
• Oceania Champion - points race, team pursuit (with Kelland O'Brien , Alexander Porter and Callum Scotson )
• Australian Champion - One Pursuit, Two Team Driving (with Cameron Meyer )

2017

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Cameron Meyer , Alexander Porter , Nicholas Yallouris , Kelland O'Brien and Rohan Wight )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Cali - Omnium
• Oceania Champion - points race, team pursuit (with Kelland O'Brien , Alexander Porter and Callum Scotson )
• Oceania Championship - Omnium
• Australian Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Cameron Meyer , Stephen Hall and Michael Freiberg )

2018

• Commonwealth Games - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Leigh Howard , Alexander Porter and Kelland O'Brien )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Berlin - Omnium, team pursuit (with Kelland O'Brien , Alexander Porter , Cameron Scott and Leigh Howard )
• Australian champion - one's pursuit

2018/19

• Oceania champions - Scratch, Omnium

2019

• World Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Kelland O'Brien , Leigh Howard , Alexander Porter and Cameron Scott )
• World Cup in Brisbane - team pursuit (with Alexander Porter , Leigh Howard and Kelland O'Brien ), two-man team driving (with Cameron Meyer )

2019/20

• Oceania Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Kelland O'Brien )

2020

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

Teams

• 2019 Pro Racing Sunshine

Web links

• Sam Welsford in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Sam Welsford in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Sam Welsford. In: rio2016.olympics.com.au. Retrieved August 11, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Welsford wins two golds within 30 minutes at UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In: insidethegames.biz. February 28, 2019, accessed March 1, 2019 .