Leigh Hoffman (cycling) made his Commonwealth Games debut in 2022 where he was part of the three-man Australian team that won gold the team sprint at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London, the track cycling venue for the Birmingham Games.

Hoffman took up the sport at the Whyalla Cycling Club in 2013, following his older brother to the local velodrome. He gained selection in junior state teams but with it came nine-hour round-trip commutes to Adelaide for training. When he was 16, his family heeded the advice of his coach Brett Aitken and sent him to Immanuel College in Adelaide to finish his education and pursue his cycling career. It paid off, with Hoffman winning junior national titles and a silver medal in the flying 200m at the World Junior Championships in 2018.

After graduating to the senior ranks, Hoffman was selected for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as a reserve. In 2022, he joined Matthew Richardson, Matthew Glaetzer and Thomas Cornish to win the team sprint world title in France against reigning Olympic champions Netherlands – Australia’s first rainbow jersey in the event since Melbourne in 2012 – and followed up with silver in the event in Glasgow in 2023.