Michael Matthews (cyclist)

Michael Matthews

Matthews at the 2015 Tour of Alberta
Personal information
Full name Michael Matthews
Nickname Bling
Born (1990-09-26) 26 September 1990
Canberra, Australia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team Orica–BikeExchange
Discipline Road and track
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Puncheur
Professional team(s)
2010 Team Jayco–Skins
2011–2012 Rabobank
2013–2016 Orica–GreenEDGE
2017– Team Sunweb
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 individual stage (2016)
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)
Vuelta a La Rioja (2014), (2016)

Other

UCI Oceania Tour (2009–10)
Infobox last updated on
7 November 2016

Michael Matthews (born 26 September 1990) is an Australian track and road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Orica–BikeExchange.[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] In the 2016 Tour de France, Matthews out-sprinted a breakaway group of 7 riders to win stage 10, his first stage win in the Tour de France, completing a set of Grand Tour stage victories.

In August 2016 it was confirmed that Matthews would join Team Sunweb for the 2017 season.[10]

Career achievements

Major results

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
1st Oceania Under-23 Road Race Championships
2nd Oceania Under-23 Time Trial Championships
2nd National Under-23 Road Race Championships
2nd Gran Premio della Liberazione
3rd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
9th Overall Tour of Japan
2010
1st UCI 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
3rd National Under-23 Road Race Championships
3rd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
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 National Time Trial Championships
3rd Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop
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 Sprints classification
1st Stage 3
9th Overall Tour Down Under
10th Brabantse Pijl
2013
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 5 & 21
Held after Stages 6 & 7
Tour of Utah
1st Sprints classification
1st Stages 2 & 4
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 after Stages 2–7
Held after Stages 2–7
Held after Stages 6 & 7
Tour of Slovenia
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
Vuelta a España
1st Stage 3
Held after Stages 3–5
Held after Stage 4
2nd Brabantse Pijl
6th Trofeo Ses Salines
7th Trofeo Palma
2015
Paris–Nice
1st Points classification
1st Stage 3
1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 3
Held after Stages 2–3
Held after Stages 1–3
1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
Tour of Alberta
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2
UCI Road World Championships
2nd Road race
4th Team time trial
2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
2nd Brabantse Pijl
3rd Milan–San Remo
3rd Amstel Gold Race
Combativity award Stage 5 Tour de France
2016
1st Vuelta a La Rioja
1st Stage 10 Tour de France
Paris–Nice
1st Points classification
1st Prologue (ITT) & Stage 2
UCI Road World Championships
3rd Team time trial
4th Road race
3rd London–Surrey Classic
4th GP Ouest-France
4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
5th Brabantse Pijl
5th Amstel Gold Race
5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

Grand Tour record

2013 2014 2015 2016
Giro DNE DNS-11 DNF DNE
Stages won  — 2 2  —
Points classification  — NR NR  —
Tour DNE DNE 152 110
Stages won  —  —  —  1
Points classification  —  — 73 3
Vuelta 110 75  — DNE
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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