Cycling News — Michael Matthews

Monday, September 16, 2024 Australian Michael Matthews of Team Jayco AlUla took victory at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, winning the uphill bunch sprint from a group of 35 riders. Matthews won the hilly and fast-paced 201km race, one of two Canadian UCI WorldTour races, ahead of Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), who in July won three stages and the points classification at the Tour de France. In the closing kilometers, pre-race favorites Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) and defending champion Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny) attacked at the base of the final 1km climb up Montée du Fort, but...

MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2024 Team Jayco-AlUla rider Michael Matthews powered to a podium finish at Milan-San Remo, narrowly missing the win in a thrilling sprint finish at the season’s first Monument Classic. For Matthews, who is competing in his 14th pro season, it was a remarkable performance that saw him capture his third Milan-San Remo podium—nine years after the Australian scored his first podium here with a third-place finish in 2015. “Obviously I’m happy with the podium, but being so close, it’s bittersweet,” Matthews said afterward. “I think tomorrow morning I’ll be happy with my performance, but in this moment right...

MONDAY, MAY 8, 2023 Team Jayco AlUla rider Michael Matthews sprinted to the win on Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia, pulling away from Mads Pedersen and Kaden Groves in a thrilling uphill sprint to the finish in Melfi. Matthews capped off a masterful performance by his Team Jayco AlUla squad, which helped put the Australian in position for a tricky approach to the finish. From there, the 32-year-old launched his finishing kick and held off Pedersen, the 2019 road world champion, and Groves, a powerful sprinter with several wins to his name this year. It was an emotional victory...

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022 Australian Michael Matthews scored a bronze medal in the elite men’s road race at the 2022 UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, thrilling the home crowd with a gutsy chase and a sensational sprint for the podium. Matthews, the team leader for the Australian squad, fought hard to secure the bronze at the end of a long, chaotic day of racing in the coastal region of New South Wales. He made all the right moves and never gave up when the field split into small groups in the latter half of the hilly 266km race. With...

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 As the 2022 Tour de France enters its final week, Team BikeExchange-Jayco can look back on a big second week that saw the team score a gutsy stage win by Michael Matthews and a number of other major highlights at the year’s biggest stage race. Matthews had been knocking on the door since the start of this year’s Tour, riding aggressively and scoring two agonizingly close second-place finishes on Stage 6 and Stage 8. Showing terrific form and an attacking style, it was only a matter of time before the 31-year-old Australian, a former points classification...