Goss at the 2013 Jayco Bay Crits
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Full name | Matthew Harley Goss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Gossy, The Boss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
5 November 1986 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2006 | South Australia.com-AIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2007–2009 | Team CSC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Team HTC–Columbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012–2014 | GreenEDGE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 | MTN–Qhubeka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | ONE Pro Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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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.