Sam Dakin
New Zealand Olympian: 1412
commonwealth games
Medals
1
Biography
PARIS 2024 EVENT: Cycling-Track: Men’s Keirin, Individual Sprint
Sam Dakin joined the Team Sprint group following the retirement of Eddie Dawkins, via Cycling New Zealand’s Performance Hub development system. He is the 2024 national Keirin champion and clocked a pb 9.865s in sprint qualifying at the National Championships. He won bronze in the Team Sprint at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paris 2024 Olympics.
Dakin completed his Bachelor in Business Analysis (Finance) from Waikato and a Post Graduate Diploma in Innovation and entrepreneurship online through Harvard University. He has strong sporting involvement off the track – he was co-chair of Athletes Voice Committee, and was one of two riders on the Cycling Integrity Steering Committee producing and implementing the Transformation Plan.
athlete
Fast facts
- Sport
- Cycling - Track
- Birth place
- Auckland
- Born
- 1996
- Height
- 183.6cm
Olympic Summer GamesParis 2024
Cycling - Track(Keirin - Men)
- Result: 8
- Placed: 8 of 33
Cycling - Track(Sprint - Men)
- Performance: +0.794
- Result: 2
- Placed: 17 of 30
Commonwealth GamesBirmingham 2022
Cycling - Track(Keirin - Men)
- Performance: 10
- Result: 10
- Placed: 10 of 25
- Gap: +0.381
Cycling - Track(Sprint - Men)
- Performance: 2
- Result: 2
- Placed: 10 of 27
Cycling - Track(Team Sprint - Men)
- Performance: 43.856
- Result: 3
- Placed: 3 of 7
- Gap: 0.000
Olympic Summer GamesTokyo 2020
Cycling - Track(Team Sprint - Men)
- Performance: 43.703
- Result: 7th
- Placed: 7 of 8