Sam Welsford

Sam Welsford (born 19 January 1996) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam.

Cycling career
Welsford's father was a keen cyclist, and Sam began joining him on rides when he was seven. Welsford worked hard at his cycling and won team pursuit junior world titles in 2013 and 2014.

He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships winning a gold medal. Welsford won the 2019 UCI Men's elite Scratch race world championships less than an hour after breaking the Men's team pursuit World Record in a time of 3 minutes 48.012 seconds.

Welsford qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and was part of the Men's team pursuit together with Kelland O'Brien, Leigh Howard and Alexander Porter. They secured a bronze medal after overlapping New Zealand who had crashed. Welsford 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.

After spending much of his career as a track specialist with occasional forays onto the road, Welsford signed with UCI WorldTeam  in November 2021, for two years.

Welsford participated in the 2024 Tour Down Under, where he won in three group sprints on the first, third, and fourth stages.

Road

 * 2011
 * 2nd Time trial, National Novice Championships


 * 2014
 * 1st Stage 1 Goldfields Classic


 * 2016
 * 2nd National Under-23 Criterium Championships


 * 2017
 * 1st Overall Tour of Gippsland
 * 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
 * 2nd Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic


 * 2018
 * 1st Noosa International Criterium
 * 2nd Oita Ikoinomichi Criterium
 * 3rd National Under-23 Criterium Championships
 * 3rd Overall Tour of the King Valley
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 4th Overall Tour of the Great South Coast
 * 1st Stage 3


 * 2019
 * 1st Wal Smith Memorial - Casterton 50
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Riverland
 * 3rd Overall Tour of the Great South Coast
 * 1st Stages 1 & 3


 * 2020
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG National Criterium Championships
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Bay Classic Series
 * 1st Stage 1


 * 2022 (1 pro win)
 * 1st Stage 5 Tour of Turkey
 * 3rd Scheldeprijs
 * 4th Bredene Koksijde Classic


 * 2023 (4)
 * 1st Grand Prix Criquielion
 * Vuelta a San Juan
 * 1st Stages 6 & 7
 * 1st Stage 4 Renewi Tour
 * 2nd Overall ZLM Tour
 * 2nd Scheldeprijs
 * 3rd Bredene Koksijde Classic
 * 3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic


 * 2024 (4)
 * Tour Down Under
 * 1st Points classification
 * 1st Stages 1, 3 & 4
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour de Hongrie
 * 7th Scheldeprijs

Track

 * 2013
 * UCI World Junior Championships
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Omnium
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Madison (with Joshua Harrison)


 * 2014
 * UCI World Junior Championships
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Omnium
 * Oceania Championships
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Team pursuit
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Madison (with Scott Law)
 * National Championships
 * 2nd Team pursuit
 * 2nd Madison (with Matthew Jackson)
 * 3rd Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Scratch


 * 2015
 * 2nd Silver medal Oceania.svg Scratch, Oceania Championships
 * National Championships
 * 2nd Points race
 * 2nd Scratch
 * 2nd Omnium


 * 2016
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Individual pursuit, National Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games


 * 2017
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
 * Oceania Championships
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Team pursuit
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Points race
 * 3rd Bronze medal Oceania.svg Omnium
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Madison (with Cameron Meyer)
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Scratch


 * 2018
 * Commonwealth Games
 * 1st Gold medal blank.svg Scratch
 * 1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Team sprint
 * UCI World Cup
 * 1st Omnium, Berlin
 * 1st Team pursuit, Berlin


 * 2019
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Scratch
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
 * Oceania Championships
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Omnium
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Scratch
 * National Championships
 * 2nd Madison (with Cameron Scott)
 * 3rd Team pursuit
 * UCI World Cup
 * 2nd Madison, Hong Kong (with Kelland O'Brien)
 * 3rd Madison, Glasgow (with Leigh Howard)
 * 2nd Six Days of Melbourne (with Cameron Scott)
 * 3rd Six Days of Brisbane (with Cameron Scott)


 * 2020
 * Oceania Championships
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Omnium
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Madison (with Kelland O'Brien)


 * 2021
 * 3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games