Glenn O'Shea

Glenn O'Shea (born 14 June 1989, Swan Hill) is an Australian track cyclist who won the Omnium at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He was also a member of the Australian team that won silver in the team pursuit at the 2012 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.

O'Shea briefly quit cycling as an under-23 in 2010 after contracting a severe case of glandular fever. However, after a representing the Australia in team pursuit and omnium in both the Worlds and the Olympics in 2012, he joined the continental cycling team for 2013. A third place at Ronde de l'Oise, in which he celebrated a stage win and wore the leader's jersey led to interest from for whom he rode in the 2013 World Ports Classic. He started the 2013 Tour of Britain as lead-out man for Steele Von Hoff.

He remained with into 2014. In 2014, he won gold in the men's team pursuit (in a new Games record) and silver in the men's scratch race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In November 2014 O'Shea was announced as part of the Team Budget Forklifts line-up for 2015 alongside fellow members of the Australian endurance track squad Luke Davison, Jack Bobridge, Scott Sunderland and Mitchel Mulhearn, riding a domestic programme with a focus on achieving success on the track at the 2016 Summer Olympics. O'Shea signed for ONE Pro Cycling for 2016.

Major results Road

2008 4th Grafton–Inverell 6th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 2011 5th Overall Canberra Tour 1st Stage 4 2013 3rd Overall Ronde de l'Oise 1st Stage 2 6th Ronde van Limburg 2014 8th Overall Herald Sun Tour 2016 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Ronde van Midden-Nederland

Track

2007 UCI World Junior Championships

Oceania Championships 1st Omnium 1st Scratch 1st Madison, National Championships (with Jack Bobridge) National Junior Championships 1st Points race 2nd Kilo 2nd Omnium 2008 National Championships 1st Madison (with Leigh Howard) 1st Team pursuit 1st Omnium 3rd Points race UIV Cup U23 1st Amsterdam 1st Munich 1st Points race, UCI World Cup Classics, Melbourne 2009 National Championships 1st Scratch 1st Points race 2nd Team pursuit UCI World Cup Classics, Beijing 1st Madison (with Leigh Howard) 1st Team pursuit 2010 1st Madison, National Championships 2011 National Championships 1st (with Leigh Howard) 1st Team pursuit 2nd Points race 3rd Scratch UCI World Cup, Astana 1st Individual pursuit 1st Madison (with Alex Edmondson) 2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Silvan Dillier) 2012 UCI World Championships

1st Team pursuit, National Championships 1st Omnium, UCI World Cup, Beijing 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Iljo Keisse)

2013 UCI World Championships

National Championships 1st Kilo 1st Team pursuit 2014 Commonwealth Games

National Championships 1st Points race 1st Team pursuit 2nd Scratch 2015

2019 1st Madison, National Championships (with Leigh Howard) 2021 1st Madison, National Championships (with Leigh Howard)