Thomas Cornish (cycling) is an up-and-coming sprinter from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire who specialises in the 1km trail. Cornish started out as a jack-of-all-trades rider who not only four events at the under-17 national track titles in 2016 but also won the road race. He announced himself as a sprinter of note with a gold medal, a world record ride in the time trial at the Junior World Track Championship in 2018. A member of the Southern Cross Cycling Club, Cornish has since gone on to win three successive national time trials and was a member of both the team sprint squad that won bronze at the World Championships in 2020 and the first-ever gold medal for Australia in the new UCI Nations Cup earlier this year. Cornish was inspired to take up cycling when six by his older brother Josh who competed in the national road race titles. Since he was eight, Cornish has trained at the Dunc Gray Velodrome, the venue for the Sydney Olympics, before he moved to Adelaide to join the national track squad. He says he can solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute.