Shane Kelly

Shane Kelly

Shane Kelly (2019)
To person
Full name	Shane John Kelly
Date of birth	7th January 1972
nation	Australia
discipline	train
Most important successes
Olympic games
silver	1992 Barcelona	Time trial
bronze	2000 Sydney	Time trial
bronze	2004 Athens	Keirin
Track world championships
gold	1995 Bogotá	Time trial
gold	1996 Manchester	Time trial
gold	1996 Manchester	Team sprint
silver	1993 Hamar	Time trial
silver	1998 Bordeaux	Time trial
silver	1998 Bordeaux	Team sprint
silver	1999 Berlin	Team sprint
silver	2003 Stuttgart	Team sprint
bronze	1994 Palermo	Time trial
bronze	1997 Perth	Team sprint
bronze	2005 Los Angeles	Keirin
bronze	2006 Bordeaux	Team sprint
Commonwealth Games
gold	1994 Victoria	Time trial
gold	1998 Kuala Lumpur	Time trial
Oceanic Cycling Championships
gold	2001	Time trial
gold	2004	Time trial
gold	2004	Team sprint
gold	2007	Team sprint

Shane Kelly at the 2008 Track World Cup in Los Angeles

Shane John Kelly , OAM , (born January 7, 1972 in Ararat ) is a former Australian track cyclist and specialist in the short-term disciplines.

Kelly, who was already successful as a junior, finished second in the 1000-meter time trial at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . He took the same place in 1993 at the World Track Cycling Championships in Hamar . In 1994 he finished third in the World Championships and won the 1000-meter time trial competition at the Commonwealth Games .

In 1995 Kelly became world champion in the 1000 meter time trial in Bogotá with a world record time. He defended the title the following year and won another world title with Gary Neiwand and Darryn Hill in the team sprint .

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Shane Kelly, who had competed as world champion and record holder, made a serious mistake: when he started the time trial, he slipped his foot off the pedals and did not even start.

In 1997 Kelly was again world champion over the kilometer, in the team sprint the team came third. In 1998 Kelly won his specialty at the Commonwealth Games , at the World Track Cycling Championships he took second places in both the time trial and team sprint. Another second place in the time trial at the World Cycling Championships followed in 1999 .

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Kelly started again in the time trial and this time won a bronze medal. After Kelly won the Oceania Championship over the kilometer in 2001, he finished second at the World Championships in 2002 and third again in 2003 . In 2004 he started at the Olympic Summer Games in Athens in the time trial, in the team sprint and in the keirin and took fourth place twice. In the Keirinfinals Kelly supported his teammate Ryan Bayley , who won the gold medal, and finished third himself.

Since the time trial was taken out of the program at the 2008 Summer Olympics , Kelly switched to the Keirin discipline in addition to the team sprint since 2004. In 2005 he was third in the Keirin of the World Championships , in 2006 he took the same rank in the team sprint. At the 2008 Olympics, Kelly managed to reach the final in the keirin and finished fourth. He then ended his cycling career, in the course of which he also won seven national titles in various disciplines on the track.

Kelly was honored with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ abc.net.au: "Shane Kelly" (English) ( Memento from August 17, 2000 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Shane Kelly in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Shane Kelly in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Shane Kelly website. Retrieved December 15, 2013 .