Matt Walls
British road and track cyclist
- Track
- Road
- Road
One day races and Classics
- Gran Piemonte (2021)
- Track
- Omnium, Olympic Games (2021)
Medal record
Men's track cycling | ||
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Representing Great Britain | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2020 Tokyo | Omnium | |
2020 Tokyo | Madison | |
World Championships | ||
2020 Berlin | Omnium | |
European Championships | ||
2018 Glasgow | Elimination | |
2020 Plovdiv | Omnium | |
2020 Plovdiv | Elimination | |
Junior World Championships | ||
2016 Aigle | Points race | |
2016 Aigle | Team pursuit | |
U23 & Junior European Championships | ||
2016 Aigle | Junior Madison | |
2016 Aigle | Junior Team pursuit | |
2017 Sangalhos | Under-23 Team pursuit | |
2018 Aigle | Under-23 Scratch | |
2018 Aigle | Under-23 Madison | |
2018 Aigle | Under-23 Team pursuit | |
2019 Ghent | Under-23 Omnium | |
2019 Ghent | Under-23 Madison |
Matthew Thomas Walls MBE (born 20 April 1998) is a British road and track cyclist,[4] who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ.[5]
Career
Walls won the gold medal in the men's omnium event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[6]
Walls was involved in an accident during the 2022 Commonwealth Games when his bike was catapulted over the barriers and into the spectators.[7]
Major results
Road
- 2016
- 1st Points classification, Junior Tour of Wales
- 2018
- Flèche du Sud
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 1st Stage 3 Paris–Arras Tour
- 2019
- 1st Stage 2 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
- 2nd Overall Paris–Arras Tour
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Arno Wallaard Memorial
- 3rd Entre Brenne et Montmorillonnais
- 10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2021 (2 pro wins)
- 1st Gran Piemonte
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Norway
- 2024
- 2nd Circuit race, National Championships
Track
- 2016
- UEC European Junior Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Rhys Britton)
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 2nd Points race
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 2nd Madison, National Championships (with Matt Bostock)
- 2017
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st Six Days of Berlin Under-23 (with Ethan Hayter)
- National Championships
- 1st Madison (with Ethan Hayter)
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2018
- 1st Elimination, UEC European Championships
- 1st Omnium, UCI World Cup, London
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st Madison (with Ethan Hayter)
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Team pursuit
- National Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Team pursuit
- 3rd Scratch
- 2019
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st Madison (with Fred Wright)
- 1st Omnium
- National Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Points race
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2020
- UEC European Championships
- 1st Elimination
- 1st Omnium
- 3rd Omnium, UCI World Championships
- 2021
- Olympic Games
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Madison (with Ethan Hayter)
Honours and awards
Walls was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Oldham on 8 September 2021.[8]
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[9][10]
References
- ^ "EF Education First". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^ "Bora - Hansgrohe". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Hickmott, Larry (24 August 2020). "Team News: BORA – Hansgrohe signs neo-pros Matt Walls". VeloUK. LH Publishing. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Matthew Walls". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Team GB's Matt Walls wins omnium gold". BBC Sport. 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: cyclists taken to hospital after crash involving crowd". The Guardian. 1 August 2022.
- ^ Mutch, James (2 September 2021). "Shaw cycling Olympic champion Matt Walls set to be given freedom of Oldham". The Oldham Times. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N26.
- ^ "New Year Honours 2022: Jason Kenny receives a knighthood and Laura Kenny made a dame". BBC Sport. 31 December 2021.
External links
- Matthew Walls at UCI
- Matthew Walls at Cycling Archives
- Matthew Walls at ProCyclingStats
- Matthew Walls at Cycling Quotient
- Matthew Walls at CycleBase
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Olympic cycling champions in men's omnium
- 2012: Lasse Norman Hansen (DEN)
- 2016: Elia Viviani (ITA)
- 2020: Matt Walls (GBR)
- 2024: Benjamin Thomas (FRA)