Matthias Brändle
Matthias Brändle (2015) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | 7th December 1989 (age 30) |
nation | Austria |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | Time trial |
To the team | |
Current team | Israel start-up nation |
function | driver |
Societies) | |
2001-2003 2004-2007 |
RV Hohenems Pro Cycle Team Bregenz |
Team (s) | |
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013–2016 2017–2018 2019- |
Team Ista Elk Haus Footon-Servetto Geox-TMC Team NetApp IAM Cycling Trek-Segafredo Israel Cycling Academy |
Most important successes | |
World hour record (October 2014) |
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Last updated: August 23, 2020 |
Matthias Brändle (born December 7, 1989 in Hohenems ) is an Austrian cyclist . On October 30, 2014, he set a new world hour record .
Athletic career
Brändle started cycling at the age of twelve at the RV Hohenems mountain bike club and drove his first road bike races for the Pro Cycle Team Bregenz . In 2004 he became Austrian national champion both on the mountain and in the individual time trial . As a junior he was twice national champion in the individual time trial and under national coach Jure Pavlic he was the first Austrian to win the Trofeo Karlsberg and in the same year the Upper Austria Tour.
In 2008 Matthias Brändle switched to the farm team of what was then ProTeam Gerolsteiner , the Continental Team Team Ista . He achieved excellent results here. The next year he received his first contract with a Professional Continental Team at Elk Haus and a ProTeam contract with Footon-Servetto in 2010 . For this team he competed in the 2011 Vuelta a España as an assistant to the overall winner Juan José Cobo . Brändle won three Austrian state championship titles in the individual time trial in the adult division, once in the U23 and twice in the elite. He twice won the points classification of the Tour de Romandie .
On October 30, 2014, the then 24-year-old set a new hour record of 51.852 kilometers in Aigle , Switzerland , on the cycle track in the World Cycling Center of the Union Cycliste Internationale . He improved the only one and a half month old record of the German Jens Voigt by 737 meters. On February 8, 2015, Brändle's record was surpassed by the Australian Rohan Dennis .
In the time trial of the national championships in June 2018 in Stephanshart, as in the previous year, he again finished second behind Georg Preidler . At the UCI Road World Championships 2018 in Innsbruck , he finished 26th in the individual time trial as the best Austrian in September. Matthias Brändle has been coached by Mathias Nothegger since autumn 2018 and he announced a move to the Israel Cycling Academy cycling team in 2019 , where he has signed a two-year contract.
On August 22nd, 2020 he was able to repeat his success of the previous year and became Austrian national champion in the individual time trial for the sixth time.
Awards
- In January 2015, Brändle was voted "Cyclist of the Year 2014" by the Austrian Cycling Association .
- In October 2018 he was honored at the sports gala in his hometown Hohenems.
successes
- 2004
- 2006
- 2007
- Overall ranking and one stage Trofeo Karlsberg (Juniors)
- Austrian State Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
- 2008
- Points classification Tour de Bretagne
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- Scoring Tour de Romandie
- Scoring Circuit de Lorraine
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- Bern tour
- Austrian national champion - individual time trial
- two stage Tour of Britain
- World hour record with 51.852 km in Aigle
- 2015
- one stage Tour of Oman
- Prologue Tour of Belgium
- 2016
- 2017
- a stage tour of Belgium
- Hammer Sprint Hammer Sportzone Limburg
- one stage tour of Denmark
- 2018
- 2019
- Austrian national champion - individual time trial
- Prologue Tour of Estonia
- Prologue Tour of Taihu Lake
- 2020
Grand Tours placements
Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | 90 | - | 111 | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | - |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - | - | 156 | - | - | - | - |
Vuelta a España | - | 155 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 158 | - |
Web links
- Matthias Brändle in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Matthias Brändle in the Radsportseiten.net database
- UCI HourRecord: Brändle nears the 52 km mark (Video: Live broadcast of the world record drive)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on matthias-braendle.com accessed on November 16, 2014
- ↑ rp-online.de of October 30, 2014: Austrian Brändle breaks Voigt's hour record
- ↑ 4.5 (!) Seconds missing Matthias Brändle for the gold medal (June 29, 2018)
- ↑ New team, new trainer (August 30, 2018)
- ↑ ÖRV - Austrian Cycling Association: Kiesenhofer with superior victory before the start of the European Championship, Brändle still catches Gamper and wins title number six (August 22, 2020)
- ↑ Mathias Brändle named cyclist of the year. (No longer available online.) Sportservice-v.at, archived from the original on February 14, 2016 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hohenems athlete and functionary ceremony (October 31, 2018)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brändle, Matthias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenems |