Jacob Schmid

Jacob Schmid

Personal information
Full name	Jacob Karl Rodger Schmid
Nickname	Schmiddy
Born	(1994-01-18) 18 January 1994 (age 30) Malvern, Victoria
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Team information
Current team	Australian Cycling Team
Discipline	Track sprint
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  Australia Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Sprint 2018 Gold Coast Team sprint Oceania Championships 2014 Adelaide Keirin 2018 Cambridge Keirin 2018 Cambridge Team sprint

Jacob Karl Rodger Schmid (born 18 January 1994) is an Australian professional track sprint cyclist from Melbourne, Victoria. He represented Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where he won bronze in the elite men's individual sprint and team sprint (alongside Nathan Hart, Patrick Constable and Matthew Glaetzer).^[1]

As a junior rider, Schmid competed at the 2012 UCI Junior World Track Cycling Championships in Invercargill (New Zealand), where he won gold in the individual sprint and keirin events. He was also a member of the junior men's team sprint (alongside Emerson Harwood and Zachary Shaw), which qualified fastest in a junior world record time (44.825s), before an illegal change saw the team relegated in the gold medal final.^[2]

References

1. "Results GC2018 - Elite Men's Team Sprint Qualifying" (PDF). www.results.gc2018.com.
2. "Track Cycling - 2012 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships". www.trackcyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 October 2018.

External links

• Jacob Schmid at Cycling Archives (archived)