Matthew Lloyd (born 24 May 1983) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2014. Lloyd is the first Australian cyclist to win a King of the Mountains competition in a grand tour.

Career

He turned professional in 2007 with the team, after riding for the SouthAustralia.com–AIS team. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Lloyd was released by in April 2011 for "behavioural reasons" rather than a drug problem. Lloyd signed a two-year deal with in November 2011.

Major results

Source:http://www.cyclingbase.com/palcoureurs.php?id=3295&idtitle=1 ;2004 : 9th Overall

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually ...

::1st Stage 12 ;2005 : 1st MaillotAustralia

National Under-23 Criterium Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Tour of Wellington The New Zealand Cycle Classic (previously known as the Tour of Wellington) is a road cycling race held in and around the Wairarapa near Wellington, New Zealand. The race is a men's competition over five stages and part of the UCI Oceania Tour. ...

::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Grafton–Inverell : 7th Overall

;2006 : 1st

Trofeo Alcide Degasperi The Trofeo Alcide Degasperi is a one-day cycling race held annually in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterra ...

: 1st Stage 5

Tour of Japan The Tour of Japan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Japan since 1996 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.1 category race. History Tour of Japan was form ...

::1st

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 5 : 1st Stage 5

: 3rd Overall

Girobio Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23, also known as Baby Giro, Girobio or Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, is an Italian road bicycle racing amateur stage race created in 1970. Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23 is the most important race on Italy's U23 calendar ...

: 5th

GP Capodarco The GP Capodarco is a European bicycle race held in Capodarco, a city ward of Fermo, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitio ...

;2007 : 4th Overall

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI World ...

;2008 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Road Championships : 4th

Giro dell'Emilia The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour, and since 2020 it's part of the UCI ProSeries calendar. The ...

: 7th Overall

Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali The Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ( en, International Week of Coppi and Bartali), also known as Coppi e Bartali, is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically in late March over five days in the Emilia-Romagna region of Ital ...

;2010 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Jersey green

Mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a femal ...

::1st Stage 6 ;2012 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Australian male cyclists 1983 births Living people Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Australia Australian Giro d'Italia stage winners People educated at Brighton Grammar School Cyclists from Melbourne Australian Institute of Sport cyclists {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub