Personal information | |
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Full name | Matthew Lloyd |
Born | Melbourne, Australia | 24 May 1983
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climbing specialist |
Professional teams | |
2007–2011 | Predictor–Lotto |
2012–2013 | Lampre–ISD [1] |
2014 | Jelly Belly–Maxxis [2] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Matthew Lloyd (born 24 May 1983) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2014. Lloyd is the first Australian cyclist to win a King of the Mountains competition in a grand tour.
He turned professional in 2007 with the Predictor–Lotto team, after riding for the SouthAustralia.com–AIS team. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. [3]
Lloyd was released by Omega Pharma–Lotto in April 2011 for "behavioural reasons" rather than a drug problem. [4] Lloyd signed a two-year deal with Lampre–ISD in November 2011. [5]
Source: [6]
Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
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Giro d'Italia | 61 | 30 | — | 50 | 70 | — |
Tour de France | — | — | 46 | 47 | — | DNF |
Vuelta a España | — | DNF | 50 | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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