{"id":723798,"date":"2026-08-02T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:30:09","slug":"australias-leigh-hoffman-breaks-commonwealth-games-record-in-the-mens-track-cycling-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723798\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Leigh Hoffman breaks Commonwealth Games Record in the Men&#8217;s Track Cycling Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">Australia\u2019s Leigh Hoffman produced a stunning display of speed and power in the Men\u2019s Track Cycling Sprint, breaking the Commonwealth Games record with a sensational performance on the velodrome.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s track cycling star Leigh Hoffman took another medal in the men&#8217;s 1000m time trial with a time of 9.361 at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow on August 1.<\/p>\n<p>The multiple-time medal winner at international track cycling events, including a bronze medal at the 2024 Olympic Games was part of the Aussie Men\u2019s Team Sprint squad who brought home a gold medal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman was brought up in Whyalla in South Australia but moved as teenager to Adelaide to be nearer his training base at the SA Sports Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, Hoffman won a silver medal in the Keirin at the 2025 World Championships in Santiago, Chile. He also won a bronze medal in the team sprint alongside Ryan Elliott and Daniel Barber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Leigh Hoffman produced a stunning display of speed and power in the Men\u2019s Track Cycling Sprint, breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}