Matthew Goss
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| Full name | Matthew Harley Goss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Gossy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 November 1986 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
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| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | GreenEDGE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006 | South Australia.com-AIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2007–2009 2010–2011 2012– |
Team CSC Team HTC-Columbia GreenEDGE |
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Matthew Harley Goss (born 5 November 1986 in Launceston, Tasmania) is an Australian professional road and track racing cyclist, currently riding for the UCI ProTour outfit GreenEDGE.[1]
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[edit] Career
Goss started in the business with track cycling. He won a bronze medal in the Team Pursuit at the World Championships in track cycling in Los Angeles in 2005 along with Ashley Hutchinson, Mark Jamieson and Stephen Wooldridge. Then the following year he won the gold medal in Bordeaux with Peter Dawson, Mark Jamieson and Stephen Wooldridge.
In parallel with the successes on the track, he started his career on the road in the Australian team Southaustralia.com-AIS team which participated in major competitions dedicated to the Under-23 set numerous victories, including Liberation Grand Prix and the Tour of the Regions.
In 2007 he turned pro with Team CSC's Bjarne Riis. In the first two years as a professional he won two stages at the Tour of Britain, one in 2007 and one in the next edition, and two stages Herald Sun Tour in 2008. Goss finished second at the Commerce Bank International Championship and third at the Delta Profronde. With CSC he also won the Eindhoven Team Time Trial 2007, UCI ProTour team time trial included in the calendar.
In these races he became known by his characteristics of speed, but also demonstrated the qualities in other disciplines, proving strong in the paving, finishing third in the Belgian semi-classic Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in 2008, confirmed later in 2009 by winning the Paris-Brussels, two stages of the Tour de Wallonie and finishing third in the Gent-Wevelgem.
In 2010 he began with HTC-Columbia. On 16 May 2010 he won the ninth stage of the Tour of Italy with arrival in Cava de 'Tirreni [2] and withdraw from the tour on 23 May due to illness. In August he won the GP Ouest-France, beating Tyler Farrar in the sprint. He also claimed victory in America in the Philadelphia International Championship [3] and two stage wins at the Danmark Rundt.
He began the 2011 season racing in Australia, the Bay Classic Series, a criterium with a number of ranking points, winning the first and the fourth round and the final in an all Tasmanian team. He also came second in the National Championship. He continues his winning streak by winning the Cancer Council Classic, the opening round of the Tour Down Under, which is among the largest advantage in the sprints and leading HTC, which then also won the first stage.
Then in the biggest win of his career, he won the very exciting 2011 Milan-San Remo Classic on Saturday 19 March.
On 6 September 2011, it was announced that Goss would be joining the GreenEDGE team for its inaugural season in 2012.[1]
[edit] Personal life
Goss supports the pivotal role of junior development and pathway program cycling teams in the state where he cultivated his cycling skills as a junior, and subsequently holds the title of advisor to the management committee and team ambassador for the RECAB cycling development team in Tasmania since 2009.
Goss appears on billboards all[vague] over Australia for Toshiba with fellow team mates from the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
He lives in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
[edit] Palmarès
- 2004
- 1st
World U-19 Team Pursuit Champion - 1st World U-19 Madison Champion
- 2005
- 1st
National Team Pursuit Champion - 1st Stage 1 Tour of Japan
- 2006
- 1st World Team Pursuit Champion
- 1st National Team Pursuit Champion
- 1st GP Liberazione
- 1st Stage 1 Giro delle Regione
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Navarra
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Navarra
- 1st Stage 3 Baby Giro
- 2nd
Teams Pursuit 2006 Commonwealth Games - 2007
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Britain
- 1st Eindhoven Team Time Trial
- 2008
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain
- 1st
Points Classification
- 1st
- 1st Herald Sun Classic
- 1st Stage 1 Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st
- 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 2009
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Wallonie
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Wallonie
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
- 2010
- 1st Stage 9 Giro d'Italia
- 1st GP Ouest-France
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Vuelta a España
- 1st Philadelphia International Championship
- 1st Stage 1 Danmark Rundt
- 2nd Stage 4 Danmark Rundt
- 2nd Stage 2 Giro d'Italia
- 3rd Stage 12 Vuelta a España
- 2011
- 1st Milan-San Remo
- 1st Stage 3 Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of California
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Oman
- 1st Cancer Council Helpline Classic
- 1st
Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 4
- 2nd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st
Sprint Classification
- 2nd UCI Elite Men's Road World Championship
[edit] References
- ^ a b McGrath, Andy (6 September 2011). "Goss signs for GreenEdge". Cycling Weekly (IPC Media Limited). http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/529978/goss-signs-for-greenedge.html. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "HTC-Columbia’s Matthew Goss wins stage 9 sprint at the 2010 Giro d’Italia; Vinokourov retains lead". VeloNews.com. 17 May 2010. http://velonews.competitor.com/?p=114798. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (5 June 2010). "Goss turns from lead-out to leader in Philadelphia". Cyclingnews (United Kingdom). http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/goss-turns-from-lead-out-to-leader-in-philadelphia. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
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