Peter David Latham (born 8 January 1984) is a New Zealand former professional

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. He competed in the team pursuit at the

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, where New Zealand finished tenth. In 2005, Latham won the bronze medal in the Under 23 Individual Time Trial at the Road World Championships in Madrid. He competed at the

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where along with Tim Gudsell, Hayden Godfrey and Marc Ryan he won a bronze medal in the

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Career

In 2005, Latham went to the

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to compete in the Under-23 category. In the

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Latham came third 37 seconds behind winner Mikhail Ignatiev. Later in November Latham rode the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge winning the event in a sprint against Jeremy Yates and Gordon McCauley. After breaking his back in a crash in 2007, Latham came back to represent New Zealand at the

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. At the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Poland, Latham along with Marc Ryan, Jesse Sergent, and Westley Gough claimed the bronze medal in the team pursuit. The following year Latham was part of the New Zealand team pursuit that won bronze again at the

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in Denmark. At the 2011-2012 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Latham won the Individual Pursuit at the Beijing round. He was the overall World Cup series winner in the Individual Pursuit that season. He finished the season ranked World Number One in the

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by the

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. Latham retired at the end of 2012. He currently works as a Fixed Income trader with the Bank of New Zealand.

Major results

Sources: ;2003 : National Under-23 Road Championships ::1st

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::2nd Road race ;2004 : National Under-23 Road Championships ::1st

::1st Road race : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Tour of Wellington : 6th Overall Tour of Southland ::1st Stage 5 ( ITT) ;2005 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Tour of Southland : 1st Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge : 3rd Overall Tour of Wellington ::1st Stages 2, 3 & 6 ( ITT) : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Under-23 time trial

;2006 : 3rd Chrono Champenois : 9th Overall Tour of Wellington ;2007 : 1st Stage 2 Kreiz Breizh Elites ;2009 : 5th Overall Tour of Southland

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Latham, Peter Living people 1984 births New Zealand male cyclists New Zealand track cyclists New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in the United States Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Te Awamutu Cyclists from Waikato Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games People educated at Te Awamutu College 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in cycling