Leigh Howard

Leigh Howard

Howard at the 2012 Tour of California
Personal information
Full name	Leigh Howard
Born	(1989-10-18) 18 October 1989 Geelong, Australia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	IAM Cycling
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
0	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
Major wins
One-day races and Classics Clasica de Almeria (2016) Trofeo Campos (2013) Trofeo Platja de Muro (2013)
Medal record Representing  Australia Track cycling World Championships 2009 Pruszków Omnium 2010 Ballerup Madison 2011 Apeldoorn Madison 2008 Manchester Omnium 2010 Ballerup Omnium 2009 Pruszków Madison 2009 Pruszków Team Pursuit 2012 Melbourne Madison
Infobox last updated on 20 March 2014

Leigh Howard (born 18 October 1989) is an Australian professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team IAM Cycling.

Career

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 is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Howard trained as an automobile electrician,^[2]

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.

Howard become a professional rider in 2010 with Team HTC–Columbia.^[3] 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.^[4]

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro	-	-	WD	-	-	WD
Tour	-	-	-	-	-	172
Vuelta	152	-	142	-	-	-

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

See also

• Cycling in Geelong

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leigh Howard.

• Leigh Howard profile at Cycling Archives
• Leigh Howard – Biography at the Australian Institute of Sport website

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's omnium
2007: Alois Kaňkovský 2008: Hayden Godfrey 2009: Leigh Howard 2010: Ed Clancy 2011: Michael Freiberg 2012: Glenn O'Shea 2013: Aaron Gate 2014: Thomas Boudat 2015: Fernando Gaviria 2016: Fernando Gaviria

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's madison
1995: Italy (Silvio Martinello, Marco Villa) 1996: Italy (Silvio Martinello, Marco Villa) 1997: Spain (Joan Llaneras, Miquel Alzamora) 1998: Belgium (Etienne De Wilde, Matthew Gilmore) 1999: Spain (Joan Llaneras, Isaac Gálvez) 2000: Germany (Stefan Steinweg, Erik Weispfennig) 2001: France (Robert Sassone, Jérôme Neuville) 2002: France (Jérôme Neuville, Franck Perque) 2003: Switzerland (Franco Marvulli, Bruno Risi) 2004: Argentina (Walter Pérez, Juan Curuchet) 2005: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Rob Hayles) 2006: Spain (Isaac Gálvez, Joan Llaneras) 2007: Switzerland (Bruno Risi, Franco Marvulli) 2008: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins) 2009: Denmark (Michael Mørkøv, Alex Rasmussen) 2010: Australia (Leigh Howard, Cameron Meyer) 2011: Australia (Leigh Howard, Cameron Meyer) 2012: Belgium (Kenny De Ketele, Gijs Van Hoecke) 2013: France (Vivien Brisse, Morgan Kneisky) 2014: Spain (David Muntaner, Albert Torres) 2015: France (Bryan Coquard, Morgan Kneisky) 2016: Great Britain (Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins)