Matti Breschel
 Breschel at the 2009 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen. | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Matti Breschel | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1984-08-31) 31 August 1984 Ballerup, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
| Current team | EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale | ||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Classics specialist/Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2010 | Team CSC | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Rabobank | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Saxo–Tinkoff[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Cannondale | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Astana | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018– | EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale | ||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
Stage races
One-day races and Classics
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Medal record
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Matti Breschel (born 31 August 1984) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale.[2]
Contents
1 Cycling Career
1.1 Team CSC (2005-2010)
1.1.1 2005
1.1.2 2006
1.1.3 2007
1.1.4 2008
1.1.5 2009
1.1.6 2010
1.2 Rabobank (2011-2012)
1.3 Saxo-Tinkoff (2013-2015)
1.4 Cannondale (2016)
1.5 Astana (2017)
1.6 EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale (2018-present)
1.6.1 2018
2 Major results
2.1 Grand Tour general classification results timeline
2.2 Classics & Monuments results timeline
2.3 Major championships timeline
3 Footnotes
4 External links
Cycling Career
Born in Ballerup, Breschel got his breakthrough with small Danish Team PH, finishing 6th at the U/23 Cycling World Championship in Verona in 2004 where he helped fellow Dane Mads Christensen finish 3rd. He also won the bronze medal at the Danish National Road Racing Championship during the summer of 2004.
Team CSC (2005-2010)
2005
He turned professional for the 2005 season in Denmark based Team CSC, where he signed a two-year contract. At the press conference, regarding his choice to join Team CSC in October 2004, he stated that he simply wished to adjust to the rigors of professional cycling, saying "I hope to get in the team, but in the beginning I just want to learn the game and to learn the races. Somewhere I know that I'm in for a beating."[3] Under tutelage of seasoned veteran Lars Michaelsen,[4] Breschel would start the season in the Tour of Qatar, where the two riders finished side by side, Breschel conceding the final victory to Michaelsen. They would ride a number of classics and smaller races together, and Breschel finished in a number of secondary placings, just missing the victory podiums.
2006
For the start of the 2006 season, he once again showed himself in Tour of Qatar, finishing as the best young rider of the race for the second year in a row. He showed his good form in March with a third-place finish in Le Samyn, being beaten only by Philippe Gilbert in the bunch sprint of the peloton, and a few days later he sprinted his way to second place at stage 2 of the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen where he was second only to world class sprinter Robbie McEwen. For the third, and last, stage of the race, Breschel would once more sprint against McEwen, with the winner taking the overall victory of the race, this time with the effect that both riders crashed. Breschel broke his vertebrae in two places and McEwen was de-classed in the race.[5]
2007
He came back with thunder and lightning in 2007 and came in an impressive 14th at the Paris–Roubaix, which his team-mate Stuart O'Grady won.
After recovering he won his first victory as a professional in stage 2 of Danmark Rundt in August 2007. This was the first Danish stage win in five years of this national tour.
2008
In 2008 his best season came and he got his first big international breakthrough when he on 8 June 2008, won the Philadelphia International Championship also known as the Commerce Bank International Championship in Philadelphia, PA where he outsprinted all contenders in a little bunch sprint after a long and hard race. A couple of weeks later he went on to take another impressive victory when he won the 2nd stage of Ster Elektrotoer, a stage finishing on the feared Cauberg and also won the overall points jersey.
He maintained his good form through the season and also came in 2nd in the Danish Road Racing Championship, only beaten by his team made Nicki Sørensen.
In August he won two stages at Tour of Denmark and also led the overalls until the final time trial securing him a total fifth place.
After all a very impressive season for the young gun the biggest scalp came on 21 September where he won the last stage of the Vuelta a España in Madrid in a very convincing way only a few days after he came in second in the 17th stage of the Vuelta a España.
Only a week later Breschel rode very impressively at the world cycling championships finishing 3rd and getting a bronze medal.
2009
Matti had his best cobbled classics campaign ever in 2009. He managed to finish 6th at the Tour of Flanders and 9th at the Paris-Roubaix. In june he became the Danish National Road Race Champion, and he also won stages in the Tour de Suisse, Volta a Catalunya, Tour de Luxembourg and Post Danmark Rundt. He managed to finish 2nd at the Vattenfall Cyclassics.
2010
During the 2010 season Breschel rode well in the Cobbled Classics but suffered from bad luck. Breschel won Dwars door Vlaanderen and put in strong performances in Gent–Wevelgem and Ronde Vlaanderen, but suffered mechanical defects in both races.
Rabobank (2011-2012)
He signed for Rabobank for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. In the 2012 Paris–Roubaix he was troubled by a knee injury. However a week before that, he had finished 9th at the Tour of Flanders. He was also on the podium at the Gent-Wevelgem.
Breschel left Rabobank at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the Danish team Saxo–Tinkoff on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.[1]
Saxo-Tinkoff (2013-2015)
In his return to the former Team CSC squad, Matti managed to pick up four stage wins at the Tour of Denmark. He also won 2 stages and the overall at the Tour de Luxembourg.
Cannondale (2016)
Breschel signed for Cannondale for the 2016 season.[6] He rode the Tour de France but abandoned the race on stage 14 after crashing. His best results in the season were, 5th at the GP du canton d'Argovie and 6th at Heistse Pijl.
Astana (2017)
Matti didn't have the best year at Astana, and his best result was 12th at Dwaars door Vlaanderen, a race he had previously won in 2010.
EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale (2018-present)
2018
Breschel returned to the Cannondale team after a year in Astana colors. He finished 9th on a wet stage 5 in the Paris-Nice. At the Milan-San Remo, Breschel sprinted home in 12th position.
Major results
- 2001
- 1st
Road race, National Under–19 Road Championships - 2003
- 6th Fyen Rundt
- 2004
- 1st Giro del Canavese
- 1st Stage 2 Ringerike GP
- 6th Road race, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships
- 6th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
- 2005
- 2nd Overall Tour of Qatar
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Paris-Bourges
- 4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 5th Circuit Franco-Belge
- 2006
- 3rd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 3rd Le Samyn
- 6th Overall Tour of Qatar
- 7th Reading Classic
- 2007
Tour of Ireland
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Stage 2
- 4th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 7th Paris-Bourges
- 2008
- 1st Stage 21 Vuelta a España
- 1st Philadelphia International
- 3rd
Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 5th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st
- 5th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 1st Stage 2
- 6th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 7th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 8th Paris-Bourges
- 2009
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 2 Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 3rd Overall Tour of Ireland
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 5th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 10th Paris–Roubaix
- 2010
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd Gran Piemonte
- 3rd Paris–Bourges
- 5th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- 8th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2012
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Burgos
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
- 7th Trofeo Palma de Mallorca
- 9th Tour of Flanders
- 2013
- 3rd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 9th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 2014
- 1st
Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st
- 4th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 5th Overall Tour de l'Eurometropole
- 9th Paris–Bourges
- 2015
- 6th E3 Harelbeke
- 7th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 8th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 1st
- 10th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 2016
- 5th GP du canton d'Argovie
- 6th Heistse Pijl
- 2018
- 3rd Japan Cup
Young rider classification
Young rider classification
Points classification
Road race, UCI Road World Championships
Points classification
Road race, UCI Road World Championships
Overall Tour de Luxembourg
Points classification
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | 119 | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France | — | — | — | 142 | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — |
 Vuelta a España | — | 48 | 68 | — | DNF | 159 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Classics & Monuments results timeline
| Monument | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Milan–San Remo | 119 | — | 60 | 39 | 134 | 11 | — | 31 | 73 | — | 12 | — | 23 | 12 |
Tour of Flanders | DNF | — | DNF | 57 | 6 | 15 | — | 9 | 25 | DNF | 73 | DNF | 32 | 98 |
Paris–Roubaix | 58 | — | 14 | 20 | 9 | DNF | — | — | 15 | — | 97 | — | 99 | 35 |
Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Giro di Lombardia | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 49 | — | — | — | — | |
| Classic | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | 27 | — | 134 | 36 | 76 | — | 30 | — | — | — | — | 19 | 89 |
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | — | — | 109 | 17 | DNF | — | 123 | — | — | — | — | 88 | 40 |
Strade Bianche | — | — | — | 25 | 20 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Dwars door Vlaanderen | 43 | — | 61 | 18 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | 12 | — |
E3 Harelbeke | DNF | — | 77 | 7 | 33 | DNF | — | 11 | 52 | — | 6 | — | DNF | — |
Gent-Wevelgem | 17 | — | 85 | 20 | 15 | 8 | — | 3 | 13 | 72 | DNF | DNF | DNF | — |
Clásica de San Sebastián | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | 86 | — | — | — | — | |
Vattenfall Cyclassics | — | — | 15 | — | 2 | DNF | — | — | 9 | 19 | 7 | — | 31 | |
Paris-Tours | 17 | — | 107 | 17 | — | 25 | — | DNF | — | 14 | DNF | — | — |
Major championships timeline
| Event | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Olympic Games | Road race | — | Not Held | — | Not Held | 42 | Not Held | — | Not Held | |||||||
 World Championships | Time trial | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Road race | — | — | — | DNF | 3 | 7 | 2 | — | DNF | DNF | 4 | 33 | DNF | — | ||
 National Championships | Time trial | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Road race | 3 | 3 | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | 7 | — | 14 | 44 | ||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
DNF | Did not finish |
Footnotes
^ ab "Breschel confirmed at Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "Breschel returns to Slipstream Sports for 2018". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
^ Matti Breschel signs for CSC by CyclingNews.com, 21 October 2004
^ "Matti i mester- lære", Ekstra Bladet, 10 December 2004
^ Injured Breschel blames McEwen by CyclingNews.com, 6 March 2006
^ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/breschel-joins-cannondale-garmin-in-2016/
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Matti Breschel. |
- Team Saxo Bank profile
Matti Breschel at Cycling Archives
- Matti Breschel's profile on Cycling Base
