Leigh Howard
 Howard in 2010 |
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| Full name | Leigh Howard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 October 1989 Geelong, Australia |
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| Current team | GreenEDGE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2009 2009 |
Geelong CC Australian Institute of Sport Team Toshiba |
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| 2010–2011 2012– |
Team HTC-Columbia GreenEDGE |
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Medal record
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| Infobox last updated on 1 January 2012 |
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Leigh Howard (born 18 October 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team GreenEDGE.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Born in Geelong, Victoria, Howard now resides in Waurn Ponds.[2] He began cycling competitively at the age of 10 and first represented Australia in 2005 at the age of 16.[2]. He as an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
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.[2] Howard also had success on the road in 2009, winning stages 1 and 3 of the Tour of Japan.
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.
Howard trained as an automobile electrician,[2] but will not need to turn to that profession yet as he has become a professional rider in 2010 with Team HTC-Columbia.[3] After two years with the team, Howard moved to GreenEDGE for the 2012 season.[1]
[edit] Palmarès
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stage 7 Tour of Tasmania
- 1st UIV Cup Amsterdam round
- 1st UIV Cup Dortmund round
- 2008
- 1st
National Team Pursuit Champion Australian National Track Championships - 1st National Scratch Champion Australian National Track Championships
- 1st Stage 2 Berliner Rundfahrt
- 1st Coppa Colli Briantei Internazionale
- 1st Stage 6 Tour of Gippsland
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Gippsland
- 1st Stage 2 Australian Cycling Grand Prix
- 1st Overall Tour of the Murray River
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st Stage 13
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Tasmania
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Tasmania
- 1st UIV Cup Amsterdam
- 1st UIV Cup Munich
- 2009
- 1st
Omnium World Champion World Track Championships - 1st Stage 1 Tour of Japan
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Japan
- 2010
- 1st Madison World Champion World Track Championships
- 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Oman
- 2011
- 1st Madison World Champion World Track Championships
- 1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer
- 3rd Trofeo Cala Millor
- 4th Grand Prix de Denain
[edit] References
- ^ a b "GreenEdge snares Howard". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 12 September 2011. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/greenedge-snares-howard. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Rider profiles: Leigh Howard". Cycling Australia. http://www.cycling.org.au/default.asp?id=8864.
- ^ ProCycling, Issue 133, January 2010, p. 63
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Leigh Howard |
- Leigh Howard profile at Cycling Archives
- Leigh Howard – Biography at the Australian Institute of Sport website
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