Kimberley Wells

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

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