Michael Matthews (cyclist)

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Michael Matthews
File:Michael Matthews 2015TOA.jpg
Matthews at the 2015 Tour of Alberta
Personal information
Full name Michael Matthews
Nickname Bling
Born (1990-09-26) 26 September 1990 (age 33)
Canberra, Australia
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Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team Mitchelton–Scott
Discipline Road and track
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter/ puncheur
Professional team(s)
2010 Team Jayco-Skins
2011–2012 Rabobank
2013– Orica–GreenEDGE
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
2 individual stages (2014, 2015)
2 TTT stages (2014, 2015)
Vuelta a España
3 individual stages (2013, 2014)

One-day races and Classics

Rund um Köln (2011)
Clásica de Almería (2012)

Other

UCI Oceania Tour (2009–2010)
Infobox last updated on
27 September 2015

Michael Matthews (born 26 September 1990) is an Australian track and road cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Mitchelton–Scott.[1]

Career

He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder,[2] and in 2010 he became the Under 23 Road Race World Champion.[3]

Matthews left Rabobank at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Orica–GreenEDGE on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.[1]

In 2015, Matthews won the points classification jersey of Paris–Nice as well as a stage.He won third place in the 2015 Milan–San Remo.[4] He also met success at the opening stage of the Tour of the Basque Country by outsprinting a group of about fifty riders after a hilly day.[5] He then went on to a second place in the Brabantse Pijl, winning the sprint of the group after nearly getting to lone escapee Ben Hermans.[6] At the Amstel Gold Race, Matthews grabbed another notable result, while he came in third of the final dash for the line while being part of a small leading group.[7] At the Tour de Suisse, Matthews won stage 4 after following Peter Sagan's wheel in the sprint and passing him in the final meters.[8]

He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[9]

Results

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2008
Internazionale Bresciana
1st Prologue & Stage 3b
1st Stage 2 GP General Patton (Junior Nations Cup)
1st Stage 7 Tour of the Murray River
1st & fastest time John Woodman Memorial
2009
1st Oceania Road Race Championships
1st Oceania Time Trial Championships
2nd Gran Premio della Liberazione
9th Overall Tour of Japan
2010
1st MaillotMundial.PNG World Under-23 Road Race Championships
Tour de Langkawi
1st Stages 1 & 3
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
2nd Trofeo Piva Banca Popolare di Vicenza
2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
2nd Gran Premio della Liberazione
4th Overall Tour of Japan
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
5th Overall Tour of Wellington
1st Stage 4
7th Overall Ringerike GP
1st Stages 2 & 3
8th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
2011
1st Rund um Köln
1st Stage 2 Jayco Bay Cycling Classic
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
3rd Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt
3rd National Time Trial Championships
4th Overall Tour Down Under
1st Stage 3
5th Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
6th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
2012
1st Clásica de Almería
Tour of Utah
1st Stage 3
1st Jersey green.svg Sprints classification
9th Overall Tour Down Under
10th Brabantse Pijl
2013
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 5 & 21
Held Jersey green.svg after Stages 6 & 7
Tour of Utah
1st Stages 2 & 4
1st Jersey violet.svg Sprints classification
2nd National Road Race Championships
2nd Vuelta a La Rioja
3rd National Time Trial Championships
2014
1st Vuelta a La Rioja
1st Stage 3 Tour of the Basque Country
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 6
Held Jersey pink.svg after Stages 2–7
Held Jersey white.svg after Stages 2–7
Held Jersey blue.svg after Stages 6 & 7
Tour of Slovenia
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
1st Jersey red.svg Points classification
Vuelta a España
1st Stage 3
Held Jersey red.svg after Stages 3–5
Held Jersey green.svg after Stage 4
2nd Brabantse Pijl
6th Trofeo Ses Salines
7th Trofeo Palma
2015
Paris–Nice
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 4
1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 3
Held Jersey pink.svg after Stages 2–3
Held Jersey white.svg after Stages 1–3
1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
Tour of Alberta
1st Stage 2
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
2nd Silver medal blank.svg World Road Race Championships
2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
2nd Brabantse Pijl
3rd Milan–San Remo
3rd Amstel Gold Race
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 5 Tour de France
2016
1st Vuelta a La Rioja
Paris–Nice
1st Prologue & Stage 2
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
5th Brabantse Pijl
5th Amstel Gold Race

Grand Tour record

2013 2014 2015
Giro DNE DNS-11 DNF
Stages won  — 2 2
Points classification  — NR DNF
Tour DNE DNE 152
Stages won  —  —  —
Points classification  —  — 73
Vuelta 110 75  —
Stages won 2 1  —
Points classification 9 6  —
Legend
1 Winner
2–3 Top three-finish
4–10 Top ten-finish
11– Other finish
DNE Did Not Enter
DNF-x Did Not Finish (retired on stage x)
DNS-x Did Not Start (no started on stage x)
DSQ Disqualified
N/A Race/classification not held
NR Not Ranked in this classification

References

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  2. ↑ AIS Athletes at 2010 Commonwealth Games
  3. ↑ Australia's Matthews grabs home turf title
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External links

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