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MATTHEW GLAETZER | CENTRAL DISTRICTS CC (SA)

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JERSEYS

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2x WORLD CHAMPION

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11x NATIONAL CHAMP

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 43.26secs which set up a bronze medal showdown with Germany where they were narrowly beaten by 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 just finished off the podium in 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. 

To open the 2018/19 World Cup season, Glaetzer grabbed three sprint gold and one silver.  The Australian also clocked a 9.502sec flying 200 in the opening round, just shy of his 9.459sec personal best set five years ago (at altitude).

In November 2019, Glaetzer was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, with the South Australian dual world champion and dual Olympian undergoing surgery to remove the cancerous growth. 

Just one month later during the 2019/20 World Cup season in December, Glaetzer took bronze in the keirin in New Zealand before winning keirin silver and sprint bronze in Brisbane.  

Glaetzer was a late withdrawal from the 2020 World Championships after sustaining a leg injury at training in February. 

MAJOR RESULTS

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

2012 London
4th Team Sprint
COMMONWEALTH GAMES
2018 GOLD COAST AUS 
🥇 Keirin

🥉 Team Sprint
🥇  Kilo Time Trial
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2014 Glasgow GBR
🥇  Keirin
🥉 Team Sprint
5th Sprint
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
2020 Berlin GER
Did not compete 

2019 Pruzkow POL
4th Sprint

2018 Apeldoorn NED
🌈 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
🌈  Team Sprint (w/ Perkins & Sunderland)

2011 Apeldoorn NED
3rd Team Sprint (With Ellis & Niblett)
National Championships
2019
Did not compete

2018

🥇  Keirin
🥇 Time Trial
🥇 Sprint
🥇 Team Sprint

2017
🥇 Keirin
🥇 Team Sprint

2016
🥇 Sprint
🥇 Team Sprint

2015
🥇 Sprint
2nd Team Sprint
6th Keirin

2014
🥇 Sprint
🥇 1km Time Trial
5th Keirin

2013
2nd Sprint
2nd Team Sprint
6th Keirin

2012
🥇 Keirin
🥇 Team Sprint
3rd Sprint

2011
🥇 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

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“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.”
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