Personal information | |
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Born | Adelaide, Australia | 13 May 1996
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
Track
- 2014
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships
- Oceania Junior Track Championships
- 1st Scratch race
- 2nd Omnium
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
References
- ↑ "Alexander Porter". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
- ↑ "Leigh HOWARD". Olympics.com. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ↑ Start list
- ↑ Final Results
External links
- Alexander Porter at UCI
- Alexander Porter at Cycling Archives
- Alexander Porter at ProCyclingStats
- Alexander Porter at Cycling Quotient
- Alexander Porter at CycleBase
- Alexander Porter at Olympedia
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