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| Full name | Leigh Howard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 October 1989 Geelong, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Geelong CC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Australian Institute of Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Team Toshiba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2010–2011 | Team HTC–Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | GreenEDGE[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | IAM Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Aqua Blue Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | ACA–Ride Sunshine Coast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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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]
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]
Overall Tour of the Murray River
Overall Tour of Gippsland
Overall Okolo Slovenska
Points classification
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
Sprints classification, Bayern–Rundfahrt| Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | DNF | — | — | DNF |
 Tour de France
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— | — | — | — | — | 172 |
 Vuelta a España
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152 | — | 142 | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
Scratch Team pursuit
Madison (with Glenn O'Shea)
Individual pursuit Kilo Omnium Individual pursuit Madison (with Glenn O'Shea) Scratch Team pursuit Omnium, UCI World Championships Omnium Madison (with Cameron Meyer) Team pursuit Madison (with Cameron Meyer) Omnium Madison, UCI World Championships (with Cameron Meyer)
Madison, Oceania Championships (with Cameron Meyer) Madison, National Championships (with Glenn O'Shea)
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games Team pursuit
Omnium Team pursuit
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships Madison (with Glenn O'Shea) Team pursuit Scratch, Oceania Championships Madison, National Championships (with Glenn O'Shea)
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
