Sam Welsford (born 19 January 1996) is an Australian professional

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. Welsford qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and was part of the Men's team pursuit together with

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and

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. 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.

Biography

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. After spending much of his career as a track specialist with occasional forays onto the road, Welsford signed with

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in November 2021, for two years. He rode in the men's team pursuit at the

2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2016. They took place in London in the Lee Valley VeloPark from 2–6 March 2016. As the last major track cycling event prior to the 2016 Summer Ol ...

winning a gold medal. Welsford won the 2019 UCI Men's elite

Scratch race A scratch race is a track cycling race in which all riders start together and the objective is simply to be first over the finish line after a certain number of laps. UCI regulations specify that a scratch race should be held over 15 km for ...

world championships less than an hour after breaking the Men's team pursuit World Record in a time of 3 minutes 48.012 seconds.

Major results

Road

;2011 : 2nd

Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

, National Novice Championships ;2014 : 1st Stage 1 Goldfields Classic ;2016 : 2nd National Under-23 Criterium Championships ;2017 : 1st Overall Tour of Gippsland ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 : 2nd

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;2018 : 1st Noosa International Criterium : 2nd Oita Ikoinomichi Criterium : 3rd National Under-23 Criterium Championships : 3rd Overall Tour of the King Valley ::1st Stage 2 : 4th Overall Tour of the Great South Coast ::1st Stage 3 ;2019 : 1st Wal Smith Memorial - Casterton 50 : 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Riverland : 3rd Overall Tour of the Great South Coast ::1st Stages 1 & 3 ;2020 : 1st MaillotAustralia

National Criterium Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Stage 1 ;2022 : 1st Stage 5

Tour of Turkey The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ( tr, Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963. In 2005 the race became part of the UCI Europe Tour, rated as a 2.2 even ...

: 3rd

Scheldeprijs The Scheldeprijs is a cycling race in Flanders and the Netherlands which starts in Terneuzen, crosses the Scheldt River, and finishes in Schoten. Until 2018 it was held entirely in Belgium. The event, ranked as a 1.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour, ...

: 4th Bredene Koksijde Classic ;2023 :

Vuelta a San Juan The Vuelta a San Juan is a road cycling race held in Argentina. The race consists of only a men's competition over seven stages. From 2017 to 2019, the race had a 2.1 status, which meant that UCI World Tour teams could compete in the race. In 2020 ...

::1st Stages 6 & 7 : 1st

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: 2nd

: 3rd Bredene Koksijde Classic : 3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic

Track

;2013 : UCI World Junior Championships ::1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Team pursuit ::1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Omnium ::3rd Bronze medal uci

Madison (with

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) ;2014 : UCI World Junior Championships ::1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Team pursuit ::2nd Silver medal uci

Omnium : Oceania Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Team pursuit ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Madison : National Championships ::2nd Team pursuit ::2nd Madison ::3rd Individual pursuit ::3rd Scratch ;2015 : 2nd Silver medal Oceania

Scratch, Oceania Championships : National Championships ::2nd Points race ::2nd Scratch ::2nd Omnium ;2016 : 1st Jersey rainbow

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UCI World Championships The UCI world championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winne ...

: 1st

Individual pursuit,

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: 2nd

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;2017 : 1st Jersey rainbow

: Oceania Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Team pursuit ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Points race ::3rd Bronze medal Oceania

Omnium : National Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Madison ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch ;2018 :

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

::1st

Scratch ::1st Gold medal blank

: National Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::2nd Team sprint : UCI World Cup ::1st Omnium, Berlin ::1st Team pursuit, Berlin ;2019 :

::1st

Scratch ::1st Jersey rainbow

: Oceania Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Omnium ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Scratch : National Championships ::2nd Madison ::3rd Team pursuit : UCI World Cup ::2nd Madison (with

), Hong Kong ::3rd Madison (with

), Glasgow : 2nd Six Days of Melbourne (with

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) : 3rd Six Days of Brisbane (with

) ;2020 : Oceania Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Omnium ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Madison (with

) ;2021 : 3rd Bronze medal olympic

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Welsford, Sam 1996 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists from Perth, Western Australia Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Australia Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Australia Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Olympic medalists in cycling 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 Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from Western Australia