# Sam Welsford

Sam Welsford OAM (born 19 January 1996) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.

## 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 Team DSM 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.

## Major results
### 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 National Criterium Championships
    1st 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

#### 2025 (3)

    1st National Criterium Championships
    Tour Down Under
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 6
    2nd Surf Coast Classic

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2023 |
| Giro d'Italia | — |
| Tour de France | 144 |
| Vuelta a España | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | Race in Progress |

### Track
#### 2013

    UCI World Junior Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Omnium
       3rd Madison (with Joshua Harrison)

#### 2014

    UCI World Junior Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Omnium
    Oceania Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Madison (with Scott Law)
    National Championships
       2nd Team pursuit
       2nd Madison (with Matthew Jackson)
       3rd Individual pursuit
       3rd Scratch

#### 2015

    2nd Scratch, Oceania Championships
    National Championships
       2nd Points race
       2nd Scratch
       2nd Omnium

#### 2016

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    1st Individual pursuit, National Championships
    2nd Team pursuit, Olympic Games

#### 2017

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
    Oceania Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Points race
       3rd Omnium
    National Championships
       1st Madison (with Cameron Meyer)
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Scratch

#### 2018

    Commonwealth Games
       1st Scratch
       1st Team pursuit
    National Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       2nd Team sprint
    UCI World Cup
       1st Omnium, Berlin
       1st Team pursuit, Berlin

#### 2019

    UCI World Championships
       1st Scratch
       1st Team pursuit
    Oceania Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st 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 Omnium
       1st Madison (with Kelland O'Brien)

#### 2021

    3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games

#### 2024

    1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games