# Kimberley Wells

Kimberley Wells (born 18 July 1985) is an Australian racing cyclist, who has represented Australia in the United States, Middle East and Europe. Outside of professional cycling, Wells is a medical doctor working at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), as a medical specialist sports physician with the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians. She obtained her medical degree after six years in far North Queensland through the rural, remote, indigenous and tropical health focus at James Cook University.
Wells was a talented road sprinter and prolific winner. Wells was coached by the 2004 Athens Olympics road race Gold Medalist, Sara Carrigan. She took up cycling seriously at university in 2003 after previously competing at a State level in Cricket and Soccer. Wells successfully completed the Australian Institute of Sport SAS selection camp to win her position within the Australian cycling team on tour in Europe. She was the 2015 Amy Gillett Foundation scholarship holder; the scholarship aspiring to honour Amy’s memory by supporting young women to the same pursuit of sporting and academic excellence. Wells has won two Australian National Criterium titles, her second coming after a coming back from a difficult year of illness and injury.

## Major results
### 2011

    1st Overall Tour de Femme

### 2012

    1st Overall Sara Carrigan Shield
       1st Sprints classification
    1st Overall Tour de Femme
    1st Cronulla GP
    Santos North Western Tour
       1st Stage 4
       3rd Criterium
    1st Sprints classification Tour of Bright
    Battle on the Border
       2nd Tweed Road Race
       3rd Criterium
    2nd Menzies Classic Handicap
    3rd Criterium, ACT Road Championships
    3rd Criterium, Goldfields Tour

### 2013

    1st Criterium, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Santos Women's Cup
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    1st San Rafael Twilight Criterium
    1st Boise Twilight Criterium
    1st East Troy Criterium
    1st Tour de Somerville
    1st Mopro Tour de Grove Criteriums
    1st Ron Van Mullica Handicap RR
    1st Stage 3 Tour de Elk Grove
    1st Sprints classification Nature Valley Stage Race
    2nd Overall Tour of America's Dairylands
       1st Stages 1 & 4
    USA Crits Speedweek
       2nd Downtown Walterboro Criterium
       2nd Spartanburg Regional Classic
       3rd Historic Roswell Criterium
    2nd Chris Thater Memorial Race
    3rd Overall Bay Classic Series
       1st Stage 1
    3rd Tour de Grove
    3rd N.O.D.A. GP Criterium

### 2014

    1st SKCC Supercrit
    1st Launceston Cycling Classic
    1st Noosa GP
    Oceania Track Championships
       2nd Scratch race
       3rd Team pursuit (with Emily McRedmond, Alexandria Nicholls and Allison Rice)

### 2015

    1st Criterium, National Road Championships
    1st Stan Siejka – Launceston Cycling Classic
    1st Stage 2 Trophée d'Or Féminin
    Adelaide Tour
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    Battle on the Border
       1st Stages 1 & 4
    7th Overall Bay Classic Series

### 2016

    1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau
    BC Superweek
       1st Giro di Burnaby
       2nd Gastown GP
       2nd Port Colquitlam
    1st Stage 4 Cascade Cycling Classic
    1st Stage 2 Bay Classic Series
    2nd GP Lazzeratti Roma
    8th Overall Santos Women's Tour
       1st Stage 4
    8th White Spot / Delta Road Race

### 2017

    1st Overall Tour of Gippsland
       1st Stage 3

### 2018

    3rd Criterium, National Road Championships