Kimberley Wells Explained

Kimberley Wells
Birth Date:18 July 1985
Birth Place:Coonamble, Australia
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Ridertype:Sprinter[1]
Amateuryears1:2012
Amateurteam1:Specialized Women SA
Amateuryears2:2013–2014
Amateurteam2:Specialized Securitor & Roxsolt
Amateuryears3:2015
Amateurteam3:High 5 Dream Team[2]
Amateuryears4:2017–2018
Amateurteam4:Holden Women's Racing
Proyears1:2013
Proteam1:Team Fearless Femmes[3]
Proyears2:2014
Proyears3:2016
Proteam3:[4]
Majorwins:Australian National Criterium Championships 2013 & 2015

Kimberley Wells (born 18 July 1985) is an Australian racing cyclist,[5] who has represented Australia in the United States,[6] 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.[7] [8] Wells was coached by the 2004 Athens Olympics road race Gold Medalist, Sara Carrigan.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] Wells has won two Australian National Criterium titles, her second coming after a coming back from a difficult year of illness and injury.[12]

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[13]
  • 1st Stan Siejka – Launceston Cycling Classic[14]
  • 1st Stage 2 Trophée d'Or Féminin[15]
  • 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[16]
  • BC Superweek
  • 1st Giro di Burnaby
  • 2nd Gastown GP
  • 2nd Port Colquitlam
  • 1st Stage 4 Cascade Cycling Classic
  • 1st Stage 2 Bay Classic Series[17]
  • 2nd GP Lazzeratti Roma[18]
  • 8th Overall Santos Women's Tour
  • 1st Stage 4[19] [20]
  • 8th White Spot / Delta Road Race
    2017
  • 1st Overall Tour of Gippsland[21]
  • 1st Stage 3
    2018
  • 3rd Criterium, National Road Championships

    See also

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Kimberley Wells wins back-to-back stages in Adelaide Tour. David Polkinghorne. 12 April 2015 . canberratimes.com.au. 31 July 2015.
    2. Web site: Kimberley Wells High 5 Dream Team. high5dreamteam.com. 31 July 2015.
    3. Web site: Kimberley Wells USA Cycling Results. usacycling.org. 31 July 2015.
    4. Web site: Kimberley Wells signs for Colavita Bianchi. www.teamcolavita.com. 10 December 2015.
    5. Web site: Kimberley Wells . 2015-07-31 . ProCyclingStats.
    6. Web site: Kimberley Wells, Eamon Lucas win 2013 San Rafael Twilight Criterium. 2015-07-31 .
    7. Web site: Hurting, set for forensic review, Australian cycling left to pick up pieces. Lane. Samantha. 2016-08-17. en-US. 2016-08-21.
    8. Web site: Swimming made a bigger splash, but our cyclists need a blowtorch too. 2016-08-17. The Roar. 2016-08-21.
    9. News: 2013-01-10 . Wells wins Australian road title . en-AU . ABC News . 2018-03-13.
    10. News: 2015-05-11 . Commando program inspires AIS cycling selection boot camp . en-AU . ABC News . 2022-03-29.
    11. Web site: Wells awarded 10th Amy Gillett scholarship . Braverman . Jessi . 18 May 2015 . . 31 July 2015.
    12. Web site: Canberra's Kimberley Wells reclaims criterium cycling title. Vaughan. Roger. 2015-01-07. The Sydney Morning Herald. en. 2018-03-13.
    13. Web site: Back in the saddle: Kimberley Wells, 29, cyclist. Richard Cooke. 7 March 2015 . thesaturdaypaper.com.au. 31 July 2015.
    14. Web site: Anthony Giacoppo takes Launceston's Stan Seijka Cycling Classic . Laura Beavis. 6 December 2015 . . 10 December 2015.
    15. Web site: 2015 Trophée d'Or Féminin. 25 August 2015 . . 25 August 2015.
    16. Web site: Wells wins Grand Prix de Gatineau . Cyclingnews . 2 June 2016 . . 22 August 2016.
    17. Web site: Kimberley Wells wins 2016 Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic stage 2 . High5 Dream Team . 3 January 2016 . . 5 January 2016.
    18. Web site: GP Lazeratti Roma results . Pro Cycling Stats . 25 April 2016 . . 22 August 2016.
    19. Web site: Kimberley Wells Wins Stage 4, Katrin Garfoot Takes Out 2016 Santos Women’s Tour . Tour Down Under . 22 January 2016 . . 22 August 2016.
    20. Web site: Tour Down Under 2016: Kimberley Wells wins final stage criterium . Reece Homfray . 19 January 2016 . . 20 January 2016.
    21. Web site: Innovative tour of Gippsland ends with Wells and Welsford Triumphant . sbs cycling . 13 March 2018 . . 13 March 2018.

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