Snapshot

NAME: Matthew Glaetzer
NICKNAME: Matty 
​DOB: 24/08/92
CLUB: Central Districts CC
LIVES: Adelaide
DISCIPLINE Track Sprinter 
PET EVENTS: Kierin, Team Sprint, Kilo
MAJOR TITLES: Dual world champion; Triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist; 11x national champion; 

MAJOR TITLES

2x WORLD CHAMPION

11x NATIONAL CHAMP

MAJOR RESULTS

OLYMPIC GAMES

2016 Rio
4th Sprint
4th Team Sprint
10th Keirin

2012 London
4th Team Sprint

COMMONWEALTH GAMES

2018 GOLD COAST AUS
1st Keirin
3rd Team Sprint
1st Kilo Time Trial
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2014 Glasgow GBR
1st Keirin
3rd Team Sprint
5th Sprint

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2018
GOLD Sprint
SILVER Time Trial
7th Keirin

2017 Hong Kong HKG
4th Keirin
6th Sprint
6th Team Sprint (With Constable, Hart & Schmid)

2016 London GBR
2nd Sprint
5th Team Sprint (With Constable & Hart)

2015 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines FRA
5th Sprint
6th Team Sprint (With Perkins & Hart)

2014 Cali COL
4th Sprint
6th Team Sprint (With Perkins & Ellis)

2013 Minsk BLR
4th Team Sprint (With Bullen & Sunderland)
5th Sprint

2012 Melbourne AUS
1st Team Sprint (With Perkins & Sunderland)

2011 Apeldoorn NED
3rd Team Sprint (With Ellis & Niblett)

National Championships

2018
1st Keirin
1st Time Trial
1st Sprint
1st Team Sprint

2017
1st Keirin
1st Team Sprint

2016
1st Sprint
1st Team Sprint

2015
1st Sprint
2nd Team Sprint
6th Keirin

2014
1st Sprint
1st 1km Time Trial
5th Keirin

2013
2nd Sprint
2nd Team Sprint
6th Keirin

2012
1st Keirin
1st Team Sprint
3rd Sprint

2011
1st Team Sprint
3rd Sprint

2010 (Under 19)
2nd Sprint
2nd Keirin
2nd Team Sprint
2nd 1km Time Trial

2009 (Under 19)
2nd Keirin
3rd Sprint
4th Team Sprint
5th 1km Time Trial

ABOUT MATT

A dual junior World Champion in 2010, Matthew Glaetzer claimed a stunning victory at the 2012 World Championships in Melbourne alongside Scott Sunderland and Shane Perkins in the team sprint.

Making his Olympic debut at the London 2012 Games, Glaetzer and teammates Sunderland and Perkins qualified third fastest (43.377 seconds) in the team sprint. They then defeated China in the first round with their time of 43.261 seconds ranking them fourth and setting up a bronze medal showdown with Germany. The Aussies kept pace with the German team for most of the race but eventually went down by 0.146 seconds. 

Glaetzer added Commonwealth Games gold (keirin) and bronze (team sprint) to his growing list of achievements in 2014. 

At the 2016 World Championships, Glaetzer qualified fastest in the sprint before moving through the field and eventually claimed silver behind Great Britain’s Jason Kenny. Alongside Rio teammates Nathan Hart and Pat Constable the trio finished fifth in the team event, missing the medal rounds by just one millisecond.
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Competing in his second Olympic Games in Rio, Glaetzer was edged by British rider Callum Skinner in his sprint semi-final before going down to Russia’s Denis Dmitriev for bronze.

​Along with Constable and Hart, Glaetzer finished fourth in the team sprint by 0.155 seconds and claimed tenth in the keirin. 

Glaetzer kicked off his 2018 season with four gold in the keirin, sprint and team sprint, and time trial at the 2018 Track Nationals in Brisbane before claiming a memorable maiden individual world title victory in the sprint, in addition to claiming silver in the time trial. 

NEWS

GALLERY

Photos © Con Chronis, John Veage, Casey Gibson

“I have been wanting to pull that jersey on for so long & to see the Australian flag raised above me was such a special moment.”