Matthew Goss

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Matthew Goss

Personal information
Full name	Matthew Harley Goss
Nickname	Gossy
Born	5 November 1986 (1986-11-05) (age 25) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current team	HTC-Highroad
Discipline	Road
Role	Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
2006	South Australia.com-AIS
Professional team(s)
2007–2009 2010–	Team CSC Team HTC-Columbia
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 Individual Stage Vuelta a España 1 Stage TTT Single-Day Races and Classics Milan-San Remo (2011) GP Ouest-France (2010) Paris–Brussels (2009) Track World Team Pursuit Champion (2006) National Team Pursuit Champion (2005, 2006)
Medal record Competitor for  Australia Road bicycle racing World Championships Silver 2011 Copenhagen Road race Track cycling World Championships Gold 2006 Bordeaux Team Pursuit Commonwealth Games Silver 2006 Melbourne Team Pursuit
Infobox last updated on 25 September 2011

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 HTC-Highroad.

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.

Matthew Goss winning the Jayco Bay Cycling Classic in 2011

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 ^[1] 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 ^[2] 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 he signed with Greenedge cycling.

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.

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 Herald Sun Classic

1st Stage 1 Herald Sun Tour

1st Points Classification

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

References

1. ^ "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. 
2. ^ 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. 

External links

• Official website
• Palmares at Cycling Quotient

Persondata
Name	Goss, Matthew
Alternative names	Goss, Matthew Harley
Short description	Road bicycle racer
Date of birth	1986-11-o5
Place of birth	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Date of death
Place of death