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]