Matthew Teggart
.JPG) Teggart in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Matthew Teggart |
| Born | 8 January 1996 Banbridge, Northern Ireland |
| Team information | |
| Current team | WiV SunGod |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2015–2016 | AC Bisontine |
| 2020 | AC Bisontine |
| 2021 | VC Villefranche Beaujolais |
| Professional teams | |
| 2017 | An Post–Chain Reaction |
| 2018 | WIGGINS |
| 2019 | EvoPro Racing[1] |
| 2022– | WiV SunGod |
Matthew Teggart (born 8 January 1996) is a retired road racing cyclist from Banbridge, Northern Ireland who rode for teams including Team Wiggins and WiV SunGod.
Career
[edit]Team history
[edit]Teggart started his career at amateur French team AC Bisontine in 2015. He turned professional in 2017 with Irish team An Post–Chain Reaction which folded at the end of the season. He moved to Team Wiggins for 2018 and spent the last year of his first stint in the professional ranks at EvoPro Racing in 2019.
He returned to AC Bisontine in 2020 and spent 2021 at another French amateur team, VC Villefranche Beaujolais. His final season in team colours prior to retirement saw him return to the professional ranks with WiV SunGod in 2022.
Notable results
[edit]Teggart has one professional cycling victory, a stage in the 2017 An Post Rás. In addition to winning stage three, Teggart had two other top-ten stage results in the race and finished ninth in the general classification.[2]
He won the Sprints classification at the 2022 Tour of Britain. Teggart took the lead in the competition on stage one and held it until the race was declared finished due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II with five of the eight stages completed.[3]
Teggart narrowly missed out on a medal in the elite Men's Road Race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. The race finished in a sprint, with Teggart losing out to Scotland's Finn Crockett in a photo finish for 3rd place.[4][5]
He contested the Irish National Road Race on five occasions, with a best finish of fourth in 2021.[6] He also had top-ten finishes on the UCI Europe Tour at the 2018 Paris–Arras Tour and Paris–Troyes in 2022 and won the Shay Elliott Memorial Race in 2021.
Retirement
[edit]Teggart's last start in a recognised race was at the Cycling Ulster Road Championship in August 2023. He has subsequently noted on Instagram that he is now an ex-pro cyclist and works as an endurance coach.[7]
Major results
[edit]- 2017 (1 pro win)
- 9th Overall An Post Rás
- 1st Stage 3
- 2018
- 10th Overall Paris–Arras Tour
- 2021
- 1st Shay Elliott Memorial Race
- 2022
- 1st
Sprints classification, Tour of Britain - 4th Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 4th Paris–Troyes
References
[edit]- ^ "Matthew Teggart and Harry Sweeny to ride for new Irish UCI Continental team". Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/matthew-teggart/2017
- ^ "Teggart increases Sprints lead at Tour of Britain". rte.com.
- ^ https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/commonwealth-games-2022/elite-men-road-race/results/
- ^ https://www.stickybottle.com/races-results/teggart-goes-agonisingly-close-to-road-race-medal-at-commonwealth-games/
- ^ https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/nc-ireland/2021/result
- ^ https://www.instagram.com/matthew_teggart/reels/
External links
[edit]- Matthew Teggart at ProCyclingStats
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