Matt Brammeier
 Brammeier at the 2015 Scheldeprijs. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Matthew Martin Brammeier |
| Born | 7 June 1985 Liverpool, England |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Disciplines |
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| Role |
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| Professional teams | |
| 2006 | DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed |
| 2007–2008 | Profel Ziegler Continental Team |
| 2009–2010 | An Post–Sean Kelly |
| 2011 | HTC–Highroad |
| 2012 | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step[1] |
| 2013 | Champion System |
| 2014 | Synergy Baku[2] |
| 2015–2016 | MTN–Qhubeka[3] |
| 2017–2018 | Aqua Blue Sport[4] |
| Major wins | |
One-day races and Classics
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Matthew Martin Brammeier (born 7 June 1985) is a former professional cyclist, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2018 for nine different professional teams. Upon retiring, Brammeier became a coach for British Cycling.[5] He won five titles at the Irish National Cycling Championships, winning the road race four times and the time trial once.
Career
[edit]Born in Liverpool, Brammeier was selected to ride the 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and represented Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Brammeier rode for DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed in 2006 and signed for Profel Ziegler Continental Team for the 2007 season.
Brammeier was involved in an accident in November 2007, when he was struck by a cement mixing lorry whilst training. He broke both his legs but returned to cycling retaining his contract with Profel in Belgium.[6]
He declared Irish nationality in advance of the 2009–10 track season and made a successful debut when finishing 4th in the scratch race at the Manchester World Cup meeting in October '09. He became road race champion at the Irish National Cycling Championships in June 2010 by beating breakaway partner and defending champion Nicolas Roche.
In 2011, he defended his Irish Elite Road Race title, and also won the National Elite Time Trial title. He joined Omega Pharma–Quick-Step for the 2012 season,[1] before joining Champion System for 2013.
After the collapse of Champion System, Brammeier signed a contract with the Synergy Baku team, the Azerbaijan-backed Continental team.[2]
On 9 August 2015, he collided with a team car during Stage 6 of the Tour of Utah. He was immediately taken to hospital following the incident and was diagnosed with injuries to his pelvis, ribs and lung.[7][8]
In June 2018 Brammeier announced his retirement from competition and his appointment to the position of lead academy coach to British Cycling's men's endurance programme from August of that year, with additional responsibility for the men's elite road team in international competition, taking over the latter from Rod Ellingworth.[9]
Major results
[edit]- 2002
- 1st
Points classification Junior Tour of Wales
- 2003
- British National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Chase Classic Under-23
- 1st Rod Ellis Memorial
- 1st Alan Jewl Memorial
- 1st Weaver Valley
- 2nd Overall Darley Moor Stage Race
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 2nd Bath Road Race (National Series)
- 2nd Junior Tour of the Peaks
- 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 2004
- 1st Frank Morgan Road race
- 2nd Horwich National Criterium
- 3rd Seacroft Road Race
- 2005
- 1st John Parkinson Memorial Road race
- 5th Overall Flèche du Sud
- 2007
- 1st
- 2010
- 1st
Road race, Irish National Cycling Championships
- 3rd Grote Prijs Stad Geel
- 3rd Halfords Tour Series Belfast
- 4th Halfords Tour Series Dublin
- 8th Overall Mi-Août en Bretagne
- 2011
- Irish National Cycling Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 2012
- 1st
- 2013
- 1st
- 2nd GP Briek Schotte[10]
- 2014
- 1st
Mountains classification Tour de Langkawi
- 6th Overall Tour of China I
- 2015
- 1st Stage 4 Ster ZLM Toer
- 2016
- 2nd Road race, Irish National Cycling Championships
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Brammeier joins Omega Pharma-Quickstep for 2012, Seeldraeyers to Astana". Cyclingnews.com. Future Publishing Limited. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ a b "Brammeier signs with Synergy Baku for 2014". Cyclingnews.com. Future Publishing Limited. 26 November 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ "Brammeier signs with MTN-Qhubeka". Cyclingnews.com. Future Publishing Limited. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ "2018 rider roster and first races confirmed". Aqua Blue Sport. Aqua Blue Sport Limited. 1 January 2018. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Windsor, Richard (26 June 2018). "Matt Brammeier retires from professional cycling to join British Cycling as academy coach". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Matt Brammeier Knocked off by Cement Mixer". British Cycling. 26 November 2007. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2007.
- ^ Brammeier hospitalised after colliding with car during Tour of Utah
- ^ Guardsman's Pass Tour of Utah 2015 Crash on YouTube
- ^ "Brammeier to retire from cycling and take role at British Cycling". cyclingnews.com. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ "Julien Vermote remporte le GP Briek Schotte à Desselgem" [Julien Vermote wins the GP Briek Schotte in Desselgem]. rtbf.be (in French). 10 September 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
External links
[edit]
- Brammeier 2008 diary and x-rays
- Matthew Brammeier at UCI
- Matthew Brammeier at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Matthew Brammeier at ProCyclingStats
- Matthew Brammeier at Cycling Quotient
- Matthew Brammeier at CycleBase
- Matt Brammeier at UCI
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales
- Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Irish male cyclists
- Welsh track cyclists
- British track cyclists
- Welsh male cyclists
- British male cyclists
- Cyclists from Liverpool
- Welsh cycling coaches
- 21st-century Irish sportsmen
- 21st-century British sportsmen