Matthew Lloyd (cyclist)

Matthew Lloyd

Matthew Lloyd in the Australian championship jersey before the start of Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2008
To person
Nickname	Moss
Date of birth	May 24, 1983
nation	Australia
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Team (s)
2007–2011 2012–2013 2014	Omega Pharma-Lotto Lampre-Merida Jelly Belly-Maxxis
Most important successes
Australian Championships Australian Road Champion 2008 Grands Tours Winner mountain classification Giro d'Italia 2010 a stage win at the Giro d'Italia
Last updated: December 1st, 2016

Matthew Lloyd (born May 24, 1983 in Melbourne ) is an Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

Matthew Lloyd won a stage of the Herald Sun Tour in Australia in 2004 . A few months later he won a stage in the Tour of Wellington and also won the overall standings. As a result, he placed fourth in the final ranking of the UCI Oceania Tour 2005 .

In 2006 Lloyd drove for the Continental Team SouthAustralia.com-AIS , for which he won a stage in the Tour of Japan and later in the Herald Sun Tour . From the 2007 season, Lloyd started for the Belgian ProTour team Predictor-Lotto . In 2008, he started the road race at the Olympic Games in Beijing and finished 30th.

In 2009, Lloyd was seriously injured in the Amstel Gold Race . At the Giro d'Italia 2010 , Lloyd achieved not only a stage win, but also the final victory in the mountain classification. In 2010 he suffered further injuries, including a broken shoulder when he was about to drive to the bank after a training drive and had an accident. The exact circumstances remained unclear, and Lloyd could not remember anything.

On April 15, 2011, his Omega Pharma-Lotto team interrupted their collaboration with Lloyd due to "personal differences". Lloyd later stated in an interview that the team leadership had asked him to do the Tour of Catalonia , even though he did not feel physically able to do so. Therefore, he rejected this start.

In 2013, Matthew Lloyd took a long break from racing to do rehabilitation after suffering from prolonged back problems. In 2014 he ended his cycling career.

successes

2004

• one stage Herald Sun Tour

2005

• Overall standings and a stage Tour of Wellington

2006

• one stage Herald Sun Tour
• one stage tour of Japan

2008

• Australian champion - road racing

2010

• a stage and mountain classification Giro d'Italia

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Giro d'Italia	61	30th	-	50	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	46	47	-	DNF
Vuelta a España	-	DNF	50	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2006 Southaustralia.com-AIS
• 2007 Predictor Lotto
• 2008 Silence Lotto
• 2009 Silence Lotto
• 2010 Omega Pharma Lotto
• 2011 Omega Pharma Lotto (until April 14th)
• 2012 Lampre-ISD
• 2013 Lampre-Merida
• 2014 Jelly Belly-Maxxis

Web links

Commons : Matthew Lloyd (cyclist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Matthew Lloyd in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Matthew Lloyd in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Matthew Lloyd in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Matthew Lloyd in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ron Reed: Cyclist Matt Lloyd suffers an unexpected withdrawal on ride to the bank. In: Daily Telegraph . December 23, 2010, accessed December 1, 2016 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Jono Lovelock: Missing in action: Where is Matthew Lloyd? In: Cyclingnews. October 24, 2013, accessed December 1, 2016 .