Kimberley Wells

Australian cyclist

For other people named Kim Wells, see Kim Wells.

Kimberley Wells

Wells after winning her 2nd national title in Ballarat (January 2015)

Personal information
Born|  (1985-07-18) 18 July 1985 (age 39)
Coonamble, Australia
Team information
Discipline| Road
Role| Rider
Rider type| Sprinter[1]
Amateur teams
2012| Specialized Women SA
2013–2014| Specialized Securitor & Roxsolt
2015| High 5 Dream Team[2]
2017–2018| Holden Women's Racing
Professional teams
2013| Team Fearless Femmes[3]
2014| Poitou-Charentes.Futuroscope.86
2016| Colavita/Bianchi[4]
Major wins
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

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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[5][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

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* Australian National Criterium Championships
* Seymour College

## References

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1. ^ David Polkinghorne (12 April 2015). "Kimberley Wells wins back-to-back stages in Adelaide Tour". canberratimes.com.au. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
2. ^ "Kimberley Wells High 5 Dream Team". high5dreamteam.com. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
3. ^ "Kimberley Wells USA Cycling Results". usacycling.org. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
4. ^ "Kimberley Wells signs for Colavita Bianchi". www.teamcolavita.com. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
5. ^ a b "Kimberley Wells". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
6. ^ "Kimberley Wells, Eamon Lucas win 2013 San Rafael Twilight Criterium". Retrieved 31 July 2015.
7. ^ Lane, Samantha (17 August 2016). "Hurting, set for forensic review, Australian cycling left to pick up pieces". Retrieved 21 August 2016.
8. ^ "Swimming made a bigger splash, but our cyclists need a blowtorch too". The Roar. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
9. ^ "Wells wins Australian road title". ABC News. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
10. ^ "Commando program inspires AIS cycling selection boot camp". ABC News. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
11. ^ Braverman, Jessi (18 May 2015). "Wells awarded 10th Amy Gillett scholarship". cyclingtips.com.au. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
12. ^ Vaughan, Roger (7 January 2015). "Canberra's Kimberley Wells reclaims criterium cycling title". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
13. ^ Richard Cooke (7 March 2015). "Back in the saddle: Kimberley Wells, 29, cyclist". thesaturdaypaper.com.au. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
14. ^ Laura Beavis (6 December 2015). "Anthony Giacoppo takes Launceston's Stan Seijka Cycling Classic". abc.net.au. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
15. ^ "2015 Trophée d'Or Féminin". pelotonwatch.com. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
16. ^ Cyclingnews (2 June 2016). "Wells wins Grand Prix de Gatineau". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
17. ^ High5 Dream Team (3 January 2016). "Kimberley Wells wins 2016 Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic stage 2". high5dreamteam.com. Retrieved 5 January 2016.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
18. ^ Pro Cycling Stats (25 April 2016). "GP Lazeratti Roma results". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
19. ^ Tour Down Under (22 January 2016). "Kimberley Wells Wins Stage 4, Katrin Garfoot Takes Out 2016 Santos Women's Tour". tourdownunder.com. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
20. ^ Reece Homfray (19 January 2016). "Tour Down Under 2016: Kimberley Wells wins final stage criterium". adelaidenow.com.au. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
21. ^ sbs cycling (13 March 2018). "Innovative tour of Gippsland ends with Wells and Welsford Triumphant". sbs.com.au. Retrieved 13 March 2018.

## External links

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* Kimberley Wells at Cycling Archives
* Kimberley Wells at High 5 Dream Team
* Kimberley Wells at [1]