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Matthew Goss

Matthew Goss
Matthew Goss, 2013 Jayco Bay Crits (cropped).jpg
Goss at the 2013 Jayco Bay Crits
Personal information
Full name Matthew Harley Goss
Nickname Gossy, The Boss
Born (1986-11-05) 5 November 1986 (age 30)
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current team ONE Pro Cycling
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
2006 South Australia.com-AIS
Professional team(s)
2007–2009 Team CSC
2010–2011 Team HTC–Columbia
2012–2014 GreenEDGE
2015 MTN–Qhubeka
2016 ONE Pro Cycling
Major wins

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia
2 individual stages (2010, 2012)

One-day races and Classics

Milan–San Remo (2011)
GP Ouest-France (2010)
Paris–Brussels (2009)

Grand Tours

One-day races and Classics

Matthew Harley Goss (born 5 November 1986) is a former Australian professional road and track racing cyclist, his final professional team before retirement was the UCI Professional Continental team ONE Pro Cycling. He first competed in track cycling before making a transition to the road. He earned a gold medal at the 2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the Team Pursuit event and came in second place at the 2011 World Championships Road race. He also won the 2010 GP Ouest-France, the 2011 Milan–San Remo as well as 2 stages of the Giro d'Italia, among other victories.

Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Goss started in the sport competing in track cycling. In 2005, he won a bronze medal in the Team Pursuit at the World Championships in Los Angeles along with Ashley Hutchinson, Mark Jamieson and Stephen Wooldridge. Then the following year he won the gold medal in Bordeaux with Peter Dawson, Mark Jamieson and Stephen Wooldridge.


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