Alexander Porter (cyclist)
 Alexander Porter (2018) | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 May 1996 Adelaide, Australia |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team |
| Discipline | Track, road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2016 | ILLI-Bikes Cycling Team |
| 2017 | Mitchelton Scott |
| 2020 | Lexus of Blackburn |
| 2020 | Scotch College South Australia CC |
| Professional teams | |
| 2018 | Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team |
| 2019 | Pro Racing Sunshine Coast |
Alexander Porter (born 13 May 1996) is an Australian professional racing cyclist.[1] Porter qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Sam Weisford and Leigh Howard. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Porter 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]
Porter rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships winning a gold medal.[3][4]
Major results
[edit]Track
[edit]- 2014
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships - Oceania Junior Track Championships
- 1st
Scratch race - 2nd
Omnium
- 1st
- 2nd Scratch race, Oceania Track Championships
- 2015
- 1st
Team pursuit, National Track Championships - UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Team pursuit, Hong Kong
- 3rd Team pursuit, Cali
- 2016
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st Scratch race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2017
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2018
- 1st
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games - UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Team pursuit, Berlin
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st Madison
- 2nd Points race
- 1st
- 2019
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Team pursuit, Brisbane
- 2nd Team pursuit, Cambridge
- 2021
- 3rd
Team pursuit, Summer Olympics
Road
[edit]- 2016
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Great South Coast
- 2nd Overall Tour of the King Valley
- 2017
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Criterium
- 2nd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 1st
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
References
[edit]- ^ "Alexander Porter". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
- ^ "Leigh HOWARD". Olympics.com. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ^ Start list
- ^ Final Results
External links
[edit]- Alexander Porter at UCI
- Alexander Porter at Cycling Archives
- Alexander Porter at ProCyclingStats
- Alexander Porter at Cycling Quotient
- Alexander Porter at CycleBase
Categories:
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Australian male cyclists
- 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
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from Adelaide
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen