Matthew Brammeier

Matthew Brammeier

Matthew Brammeier (2015)
To person
Full name	Matthew Martin Brammeier
Date of birth	June 7, 1985
nation	Ireland
discipline	Road / train
End of career	June 26, 2018
Team (s) as coach
2018–	National team UK
Last updated: June 27, 2018

Matthew Martin Brammeier (born June 7, 1985 in Liverpool , United Kingdom ) is an Irish track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Brammeier was British road champion in the junior class road race in 2003. The following year he and Mark Cavendish won the UIV Cup at the six-day race in Dortmund on the track . In 2005 he was successful in part of the Girvan Three Day. In 2006 Brammeier got a contract with DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed and from 2007 he drove for the Belgian Continental Team Profel Ziegler . In his first season there he was British time trial champion in the U23 class. That same year he was hit by a truck while training and broke both legs.

Matthew Brammeier started for Ireland at the end of 2009. By 2017 he was five times Irish road champion and one time trial champion. In 2011 he drove for the UCI WorldTeam HTC-Highroad and in 2012 for Omega Pharma-Quick-Step . After a year with the Dimension Data team in 2016, he moved to the Irish team Aqua Blue Sport .

In August 2015, Brammeier was seriously injured during the Tour of Utah when he overlooked a curve and collided with an escort vehicle with almost no brakes. He suffered several fractures and a tear in his lung. In 2018 he and his wife, racing driver Nikki Brammeier , founded MUDIIITA, a training team for young British cross-country cyclists .

In June 2018, Matthew Brammeier announced his immediate retirement from competitive cycling. From August 2018 he will work as the endurance national coach for British Cycling .

successes

2003

• British Champion - Road Race (Juniors)

2007

• British Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)

2010

• Irish Champion - Road Race

2011

• Irish Champion - Individual Time Trial
• Irish Champion - Road Race

2012

• Irish Champion - Road Race

2013

• Irish Champion - Road Race

2015

• a stage of the ZLM Toer

2016

• Irish Championship - Road Racing

Teams

• 2006 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed
• 2007 Profel Ziegler
• 2008 Profel Prorace
• 2009 To Post-Sean Kelly Team
• 2010 To Post-Sean Kelly
• 2011 HTC Highroad
• 2012 Omega Pharma-Quick Step
• 2013 Champion System
• 2014 Synergy Baku Cycling Project
• 2015 MTN-Qhubeka
• 2016 Team Dimension Data
• 2017 Aqua Blue Sport
• 2018 Aqua Blue Sport

Web links

Commons : Matthew Brammeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Matthew Brammeier in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Matthew Brammeier in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Youri Ijnsen: Nikki Brammeier starts his own crossploeg uit de grond. In: WielerFlits. December 20, 2017, accessed June 27, 2018 (Dutch). 
2. ^ Brammeier to retire from cycling and take role at British Cycling. In: Cycling News. June 26, 2018, accessed June 27, 2018 .