Matthew Glaetzer

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Matthew Glaetzer Road cycling
Matthew Glaetzer as 2018 Sprint World Champion
Matthew Glaetzer as 2018 Sprint World Champion
To person
Date of birth August 24, 1992
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline train
Driver type sprinter
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2018 World Champion - Sprint
2018 silver - 1000 meter time trial
2016 silver - Sprint
2012 World Champion - team sprint
Last updated: January 27, 2020
Glaetzer (r.) In conversation with former world champion Teun Mulder

Matthew Glaetzer (born August 24, 1992 in Adelaide ) is an Australian track cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines.

Athletic career

In 2009 and 2010, Matthew Glaetzer was on the podium several times at national junior championships before he was internationally successful for the first time with the junior world championship in 2010 . From 2011 he rode in the elite, was Australian champion in the team sprint , together with Nathan Corrigan-Martella and James Glasspool , and third in the sprint . At the US Grand Prix of Sprinting , he finished first in the team sprint, with Daniel Ellis and Scott Sunderland .

In 2012 Glaetzer became the Australian Keirin Champion . In the same year he was world champion in team sprint with Shane Perkins and Sunderland, at the Olympic Games in London he finished fourth with Perkins and Sunderland. In 2016 he was runner-up in the sprint world championship . In the same year he was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to start in the sprint, keirin and team sprint. Together with Nathan Hart and Patrick Constable , he finished fourth in the team sprint and also in the sprint. In the Keirin he was tenth.

In 2018 Matthew Glaetzer became world champion in the sprint and won the keirin and time trial disciplines at the Commonwealth Games . In the 2018/19 winter season, he won four of the six sprint runs of the Track Cycling World Cup and also won the overall ranking. He was also Oceania Champion in Sprint and Keirin that season.

Glaetzer was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October after complaining of neck pain. The thyroid was surgically removed; treatment with iodine tablets followed . Before the UCI-Bahn World Championships 2020 in Berlin , he had a training accident in which he injured himself so that he could not take part in the championships.

successes

2010
2011
2012
2013
  • OceaniaChampionJersey.png Oceania Champion - Sprint, Keirin
2014
  • OceaniaChampionJersey.png Oceania Champion - Sprint
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian champion - sprint, 1000 meter time trial
2015
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian champion - sprint
2016
2017
2017/18
  • bronze Oceania Championship - Sprint
2018
2018/19
  • OceaniaChampionJersey.png Oceania Champion - Sprint, Keirin
2019

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim van Hengel: Baansprinter Matthew Glaetzer treats aan schildklierkanker. WielerFlits, November 9, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ^ Injured Glaetzer to miss cycling worlds. In: wwos.nine.com.au. February 20, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Glaetzer, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide