Westley Gough

Westley Gough

To person
Date of birth	May 4, 1988
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Railway (endurance / short term) / road
End of career	2015
Most important successes
Olympic games 2008, 2012 - team pursuit UCI track world championships 2005 - team pursuit Oceania Championships 2009 - team pursuit
Last updated: August 19, 2018

Westley Marc Gough (born May 4, 1988 in Waipukurau ) is a retired New Zealand track and road cyclist . His specialty was team tracking on the track.

Athletic career

Westley Gough was junior track cycling world champion in the team pursuit in Vienna in 2005 . The following year he became New Zealand junior class champion in scratch and 1000 m time trial . He also won the silver medal in the individual and in the team pursuit at the World Championships in Ghent . At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Gough won a bronze medal after he had taken part in the heats of the Team Pursuit. At the UCI Track World Championships in Pruszków in 2009 , he also won bronze in the team pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Peter Latham and Marc Ryan ).

On the road, Gough was the 2004 New Zealand individual time trial champion . In the 2008 season he was successful in the team time trial of the Tour of Southland , and he was national criterion champion.

In 2009 he was with Bewley, Latham and Ryan Oceania champion in the team pursuit. The following year, the New Zealand foursome was successful with Gough at the Commonwealth Games with silver and at the Cali World Cup with gold. After becoming the New Zealand road individual time trial champion in 2011, he won the bronze medal with the New Zealand foursome ( Aaron Gate , Sam Bewley and Marc Ryan) at the World Track Championships in 2012 . At the following Olympic Games in London in 2012 , Gough, Bewley, Ryan, Sergent and Gate again won bronze for New Zealand.

In 2015, Gough ended his cycling career.

successes

train

2005

• Junior World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Jesse Sergent and Darren Shea )
• Oceania Games (Juniors) - Individual Pursuit

2006

• Junior World Championship - Single Pursuit, Team Pursuit (with Jesse Sergent , Shem Rodger and Shane Archbold )
• New Zealand Junior Champion - Scratch, 1000 meter time trial

2008

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Hayden Roulston , Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent )

2009

• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Peter Latham and Marc Ryan )

2010

• Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent )
• World Cup in Cali - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent )
• New Zealand Champion - Omnium

2011

• Oceania Championship - Omnium
• Oceania Championship - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Cameron Karwowski , Peter Latham and Myron Simpson )

2012

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Marc Ryan , Jesse Sergent and Aaron Gate )
• World Championships - Team Pursuit (with Aaron Gate , Sam Bewley and Marc Ryan )

2014

• Oceania Championship - one's pursuit

Street

2004

• New Zealand Youth Champion - Individual Time Trial, Road Race

2008

• one stage Tour of Southland (team time trial)
• New Zealand Champion - Criterion

2011

• New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial
• one stage Tour of Wellington

2012

• a stage tour of the Pays de Savoie

Teams

• 2010 Team Sprocket (Stagiaire)
• 2011 Subway Cycling Team
• 2012 Subway Cycling Team
• 2014 Team Budget Forklifts

Web links

• Westley Gough in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Westley Gough in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )