Matt Walls
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| Full name | Matthew Walls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Wallsey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 April 1998 Oldham, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Bora–Hansgrohe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017–2019 | 100% Me | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | EF Education First (stagiaire)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Trinity Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2021– | Bora–Hansgrohe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew Thomas Walls MBE (born 20 April 1998) is a British road and track cyclist,[2] who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe.[3][4] Walls won the gold medal in the men's omnium event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]
Career achievements[]
Major results[]
Road[]
- 2016
- 1st
Points classification, Junior Tour of Wales - 2018
- Flèche du Sud
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3 Paris–Arras Tour
- 2019
- 1st Stage 2 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
- 2nd Overall Paris–Arras Tour
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Arno Wallaard Memorial
- 3rd Entre Brenne et Montmorillonnais
- 10th Road race, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
- 2021
- 1st Gran Piemonte
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Norway
Track[]
- 2016
- UEC European Junior Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st Madison (with Rhys Britton)
- 1st
- UCI Junior Track World Championships
- 2nd
Points race - 3rd
Team pursuit
- 2nd
- 2nd Madison (with Matt Bostock), National Track Championships
- 2017
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 1st Six Days of Berlin Under-23 (with Ethan Hayter)
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Madison (with Ethan Hayter) - 1st Omnium
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2018
- 1st Elimination race, UEC European Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium, UCI Track World Cup, London - UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 1st Madison (with Ethan Hayter)
- 1st Scratch race
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Team pursuit
- 3rd Scratch race
- 1st
- 2019
- UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 1st Madison (with Fred Wright)
- 1st Omnium
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Points race
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2020
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Elimination race
- 1st Omnium
- 1st
- 3rd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
- 2021
- Olympic Games
- 1st
Omnium - 2nd
Madison (with Ethan Hayter)
- 1st
Honours and awards[]
Walls was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Oldham on 8 September 2021.[6]
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[7][8]
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References[]
- ^ "EF Education First". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^ "Matthew Walls". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "Bora - Hansgrohe". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Hickmott, Larry (24 August 2020). "Team News: BORA – Hansgrohe signs neo-pros Matt Walls". VeloUK. LH Publishing. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Team GB's Matt Walls wins omnium gold". BBC Sport. 5 August 2021.
- ^ Mutch, James (2 September 2021). "Shaw cycling Olympic champion Matt Walls set to be given freedom of Oldham". The Oldham Times. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N26.
- ^ "New Year Honours 2022: Jason Kenny receives a knighthood and Laura Kenny made a dame". BBC Sport. 31 December 2021.
External links[]
- Matthew Walls at Cycling Archives
- Matthew Walls at ProCyclingStats
- Matthew Walls at Cycling Quotient
- Matthew Walls at the British Olympic Association
- Matthew Walls at Olympedia
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