Leigh Howard
.jpg) Howard at the 2012 Tour of California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Leigh Howard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
18 October 1989 Geelong, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Geelong CC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Australian Institute of Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Team Toshiba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team HTC–Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | GreenEDGE[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | IAM Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Aqua Blue Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018– | ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Leigh Howard (born 18 October 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist for UCI Continental team ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast.[2]
Career
Born in Geelong, Victoria, Howard now resides in Waurn Ponds.[3] He began cycling competitively at the age of 10 and first represented Australia in 2005 at the age of 16.[3] He is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Howard 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 2008–2009 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]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2007
- Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stages 1, 4 & 7
- UIV Cup
- 1st Amsterdam
- 1st Dortmund
- 2008
- National Track Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stages 5 & 13
- Tour of Gippsland
- 1st Stages 6 & 8
- Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stages 1 & 8
- 1st Coppa Colli Briantei Internazionale
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Berlin
- 1st Stage 2 Australian Cycling Grand Prix
- UIV Cup
- 1st Amsterdam
- 1st Munich
- 2009
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stages 2, 3, 6 & 9
- 1st
- Tour of Japan
- 1st
- 1st Stages 1, 3 & 7
- 1st
- 1st Classic Astico – Brenta
- 1st Stage 1 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- 2010
- 1st
- 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Oman
- 1st Sprints classification Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 2011
- 1st
- 1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer
- 3rd Trofeo Cala Millor
- 4th Grand Prix de Denain
- 2012
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Eneco Tour
- 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 2
- 2013
- 1st Trofeo Campos–Santanyí–Ses Salines
- 1st Trofeo Platja de Muro
- 8th Vuelta a La Rioja
- 2014
- 5th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- 7th Overall Tour of Alberta
- 2015
- 6th RideLondon–Surrey Classic
- 2016
- 1st Stage 1 Tour des Fjords
- 1st Clásica de Almería
- 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2018
- 1st
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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— | — | DNF | — | — | DNF |
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— | — | — | — | — | 172 |
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152 | — | 142 | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
See also
References
- 1 2 "GreenEdge snares Howard". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Australian Cycling Academy team focused on nurturing young talent". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
Former WorldTour rider Leigh Howard will captain the team which also includes current team pursuit world champions Sam Welsford and Kelland O'Brien on a 13-rider roster.
- 1 2 3 4 "Rider profiles: Leigh Howard". Cycling Australia. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012.
- ↑ ProCycling, Issue 133, January 2010, p. 63
- ↑ "Leigh Howard, Vegard Stake Laengen and Oliver Naesen confirmed for IAM Cycling". cyclingnews.com. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leigh Howard. |
- Leigh Howard at Cycling Archives
- Leigh Howard – Biography at the Australian Institute of Sport website
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