Alexander Porter (cyclist)

Alexander Porter

Alexander Porter (2018)
Personal information
Born	(1996-05-13) 13 May 1996 (age 27) Adelaide, Australia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team	Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team
Discipline	Track, road
Role	Rider
Amateur teams
2016	ILLI-Bikes Cycling Team
2017	Mitchelton Scott
2020	Lexus of Blackburn
2020	Scotch College South Australia CC
Professional teams
2018	Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team
2019	Pro Racing Sunshine Coast
Medal record Representing  Australia Men's track cycling Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit World Championships 2016 London Team pursuit 2017 Hong Kong Team pursuit 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Team pursuit

Alexander Porter (born 13 May 1996) is an Australian professional racing cyclist.^[1] Porter qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Sam Weisford and Leigh Howard. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Porter 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.^[2]

Porter rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships winning a gold medal.^[3][4]

Major results

Track

Road

2016

1st Stage 3 Tour of the Great South Coast

2nd Overall Tour of the King Valley

2017

National Under-23 Road Championships

1st

Criterium

2nd Road race

3rd Time trial

4th Time trial, National Road Championships

References

External links

• Alexander Porter at UCI 
• Alexander Porter at Cycling Archives 
• Alexander Porter at ProCyclingStats 
• Alexander Porter at Cycling Quotient 
• Alexander Porter at CycleBase 
• Alexander Porter at Olympedia 

This page was last edited on 26 January 2024, at 02:19