Leigh Howard
2006: World Champion - Team Pursuit (Juniors ) 2007: World Champion - Team Pursuit (Juniors ) 2009: World Champion - Omnium 2010: World Champion - team pursuit 2010: World Champion - Madison 2011: World Champion - Madison
Leigh Howard ( born October 18, 1989 in Geelong, Victoria ( Australia) ) is an Australian track and road racing cyclist.
Leigh Howard was 2006 Australian Junior Track Cycling Champion Scratch. At the World Championships in Ghent, he was first in the team pursuit and at the Oceania Games, he won the points race. The next year he won at the National Track Cycling Junior Championship gold in the individual pursuit, the 1000m time trial and in the Omnium. At the World Championships in Aguascalientes Howard won the bronze medal in the individual pursuit gold in the team pursuit and silver in the Madison. Later he won with Miles Olman the UIV Cup in Amsterdam and Dortmund. Since 2008, Howard moves into the elite class. In the same year he won the team pursuit and the scratch race at the Australian Track Cycling Championships in Sydney. At the World Championships in Manchester, he secured the silver medal in the Omnium.
On the road, Howard won a stage of the 2007 Tour De Bortoli and three sections at the Tour of Tasmania. In 2008 he drove for the Australian Continental team Southaustralia.com - AIS. In his first year there, he was successful on a stage of the Tour de Berlin. After he moved to Team HTC - Columbia in 2010, he won in his first race equal to the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman.
Achievements - train
- Australia Australian Masters - Scratch ( Juniors)
- World Champion - Team Pursuit ( juniors) with Jack Bobridge, Cameron Meyer and Travis Meyer
- Australia Australian Masters - individual pursuit (Juniors )
- Australia Australian Masters - 1000m time trial (Juniors )
- Australia Australian Masters - Omnium (Juniors )
- World Champion - Team Pursuit ( juniors) with Jack Bobridge, Travis Meyer and Glenn O'Shea
- Australia Australian Masters - Team Pursuit with Sean Finning, James Langedyk and Glenn O'Shea
- Australia Australian Masters - Scratch
- UIV Cup Amsterdam with Glenn O'Shea
- UIV Cup Munich with Glenn O'Shea
- World Cup Beijing - Team Pursuit with Rohan Dennis, Mark Jamieson and Glenn O'Shea
- World Cup Beijing - Madison with Glenn O'Shea
- World Champion - Omnium
- World Champion - team pursuit
- World Champion - Madison ( with Cameron Meyer)
- Oceania champions - Team Pursuit ( with Jack Bobridge, Michael Hepburn and Cameron Meyer)
- The Oceania - Madison ( with Cameron Meyer)
- The Oceania - Scratch
- World Cup Melbourne - Team Pursuit ( with Jack Bobridge, Michael Hepburn and Cameron Meyer)
- World Cup Melbourne - Madison ( with Cameron Meyer)
- World Champion - Madison ( with Cameron Meyer)
- Australia Australian Masters - Madison ( with Cameron Meyer)
- 1st place Berlin Six days race with Cameron Meyer
Achievements - road
- A stage of the Tour de Berlin
- Coppa Colli Briantei Internazionale
- Three stages Tour of Japan
- A stage Thuringia Tour
- General Classification Tour de Slovaquie
- A stage in the Tour of Oman
- Sprint Tour of Bavaria
- Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- Ster ZLM Toer stage a
- Team time trial Eneco Tour
- A stage in the Tour of Britain
- Trofeo Migjorn
- Trofeo Platja de Muro
Team
- 2008 Southaustralia.com - AIS
- 2009 Team Jayco AIS
- 2010 Team HTC - Columbia
- 2011 HTC -Highroad
- 2012 Orica Green Edge
- 2013 Orica Green Edge