Kelland O'Brien (born 22 May 1998) is an Australian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . O'Brien qualified for the

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and was part of the Men's team pursuit together with

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, Sam Weisford and

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. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. O'Brien 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.

Biography

O'Brien grew up in Kew, Victoria, Australia. He started in BMX but then switched to mountain bike. O'Brien also did quite a bit of road cycling before concentrating on the track. He represented Australia at the 2015 Junior World Championships and his performances allowed him to get a

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gold and Team Pursuit bronze. O'Brien rode in the men's team pursuit event at the

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. In December 2017, he was awarded Australian Institute of Sport Emerging Athlete of the Year.

Major results

;2017 : UCI Track World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Individual pursuit ;2018 : 1st Gold medal blank

Team pursuit,

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: 2nd

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(with

) ;2019 : 4th Australian National Time Trial Championships, Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 10th Halle–Ingooigem ;2020 : 2nd Australian National Time Trial Championships, Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2021 : National Road Championships ::2nd Australian National Road Race Championships, Road Race ::3rd Australian National Time Trial Championships, Time trial : 3rd Bronze medal olympic

Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit, Team pursuit, Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Olympic Games ;2022 : 7th 2022 Dwars door Vlaanderen, Dwars door Vlaanderen ;2023 : 9th Rund um Köln

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Obrien, Kelland 1998 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists from Melbourne UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Australian track cyclists Olympic cyclists for Australia Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Olympic medalists in cycling People from Kew, Victoria Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from Victoria (state)