Welsford in 2020
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| Full name | Sam Welsford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1996-01-19) 19 January 1996 (age 28) Perth, Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018–2019 | ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Team DSM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Bora–Hansgrohe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Sam Welsford (born 19 January 1996) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.[1][2]
Welsford's father was a keen cyclist, and Sam began joining him on rides when he was seven. Welsford worked hard at his cycling and won team pursuit junior world titles in 2013 and 2014.[3]
He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships winning a gold medal.[4][5] Welsford won the 2019 UCI Men's elite Scratch race world championships less than an hour after breaking the Men's team pursuit World Record in a time of 3 minutes 48.012 seconds.[6]
Welsford qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Leigh Howard and Alexander Porter. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Welsford also competed in the Men's Madison where the team finished fifth with a time of 3:48.448 and therefore did not qualify for the final.[7]
After spending much of his career as a track specialist with occasional forays onto the road, Welsford signed with UCI WorldTeam Team DSM in November 2021, for two years.[8]
Welsford participated in the 2024 Tour Down Under, where he won in three group sprints on the first, third, and fourth stages.
National Criterium Championships
Overall Bay Classic Series
Points classification| Grand Tour | 2023 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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 Tour de France
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144 |
 Vuelta a España
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| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | Race in Progress |
Team pursuit Omnium
Madison (with Joshua Harrison) Team pursuit
Omnium
Team pursuit Madison (with Scott Law)
Scratch, Oceania Championships
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships Individual pursuit, National Championships
Team pursuit, Olympic Games Team pursuit, UCI World Championships Team pursuit Points race
Omnium Madison (with Cameron Meyer) Team pursuit Scratch
Scratch Team pursuit Individual pursuit Scratch Team pursuit Omnium Scratch Omnium Madison (with Kelland O'Brien)
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
 UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's scratch | |
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