Leigh Howard

Leigh Howard

Howard in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Leigh Howard
Born	(1989-10-18) 18 October 1989 (age 34) Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur teams
0	Geelong CC
2009	Australian Institute of Sport
2009	Team Toshiba
Professional teams
2010–2011	Team HTC–Columbia
2012–2015	GreenEDGE[1]
2016	IAM Cycling
2017	Aqua Blue Sport
2018–2019	ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast
Major wins
Track Madison, World Championships (2010, 2011) Omnium, World Championships (2009) Team pursuit, World Championships (2019)
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit World Championships 2009 Pruszków Omnium 2010 Ballerup Madison 2011 Apeldoorn Madison 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit 2008 Manchester Omnium 2010 Ballerup Omnium 2009 Pruszków Madison 2009 Pruszków Team pursuit 2012 Melbourne Madison Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Team pursuit

Leigh Howard (born 18 October 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in both the Men's Madison and Men's Team Pursuit. Howard was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Sam Weisford and Alexander Porter. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Howard 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]

Career

Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Howard now resides in Waurn Ponds, Victoria.^[3] He began cycling competitively at the age of 10 and first represented Australia in 2005 at the age of 16.^[3] Howard is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder, and initially trained as an automobile electrician.^[3]

Howard won the bronze medal in the omnium event at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He went on to take several medals in round 2 and 4 of the 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics. In 2009, he again won a medal in the omnium at the World Championships, this time taking gold, he also took the silver medal in both the madison and team pursuit.^[3] Howard also had success on the road in 2009, winning stages 1 and 3 of the Tour of Japan.

Howard become a professional rider in 2010 with Team HTC–Columbia.^[4] In his first professional race with team HTC Columbia, Howard won the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman. Impressively, Howard finished ahead of Daniele Bennati, Tom Boonen and Tyler Farrar on the stage. After two years with the team, Howard moved to GreenEDGE for the 2012 season.^[1] In November 2015 IAM Cycling announced that Howard would join them for the 2016 season, with a role as part of the sprint train for Matteo Pelucchi.^[5]

Howard last rode for UCI Continental team Pro Racing Sunshine Coast.^[6]

Major results

Road

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro d'Italia	—	—	DNF	—	—	DNF
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	172
Vuelta a España	152	—	142	—	—	—

Track

See also

• Cycling in Geelong

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leigh Howard.

• Leigh Howard at Cycling Archives
• Leigh Howard at ProCyclingStats
• Leigh Howard – Biography at the Australian Institute of Sport website

This page was last edited on 7 May 2024, at 11:24