Mathew Hayman Biography

Australian road bicycle racer

Mathew Hayman (born 20 April 1978) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2019 for the Rabobank, Team Sky and Mitchelton–Scott teams. During his career, Hayman was an experienced and respected domestique, as he typically took on a supporting role within his team. Hayman was also a specialist in the cobbled cl*ics, and was the winner of Paris–Roubaix in 2016. Following his retirement from racing after the 2019 Tour Down Under, Hayman remained with the Mitchelton–Scott team as a part-time directeur sportif alongside a "special projects" position.

Personal life

Hayman was born in western Sydney, but the family was living near Goulburn in country New South Wales when he became interested in cycling, largely due to his older brother. He started racing in Canberra, and, following his brother, moved to Europe to further a potential cycling career in 1997. He raced as an amateur with Rabobank's under-23 team, based in The Netherlands. In 2006 he married Kym Shirley, an Australian professional cyclist. The couple has a son, born in 2011, and twins born in 2017.

Career

Hayman turned professional in 2000 with Rabobank, after three years racing as an amateur in Europe. He completed his first Paris–Roubaix the same year. He stayed with Rabobank for ten years, achieving a number of good results during that time. Hayman has refused to discuss Dr Geert Leinders when asked about his time at Rabobank. Riding for Australia in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne as a domestique in support of Allan Davis, it was Hayman who came away with the gold medal in the road race.

At the end of 2009 Hayman left Rabobank for the challenge of helping to form a new professional cycling team, then known as Team Sky. Hayman left Team Sky at the end of the 2013 season, and joined Orica–GreenEDGE for the 2014 season.

On 10 April 2016, he won Paris–Roubaix, the eighth professional victory of his career. He was part of a breakaway of 16 riders that escaped from the peloton in the early stages of the race, which was later joined by a group which was formed after the peloton broke up following a crash 115:km from the finish. In the closing stages Hayman managed to close the gap on a select group of riders attacking from the lead group, and in the final sprint at Roubaix Velodrome, he beat Tom Boonen, Ian Stannard, Sep Vanmarcke and Edvald Bo*on Hagen. His first reaction was one of disbelief: "I can’t believe it This is my favorite race, it's a race I dream of every year. This year I didn’t even dare to dream."

On 18 September 2018 Hayman announced that he intended to retire after the 2019 Tour Down Under.

Career achievements

Major results

19962nd Time trial, UCI Road World Junior Road Championships2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships19991st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux2nd Overall Olympia's Tour1st Stage 3b (TTT)3rd Omloop der Kempen20005th Overall Spark*en Giro Bochum6th Overall Guldensporentweedaagse20011st Trofeo Soller1st Overall Challenge Mallorca1st Sprints cl*ification1st Stage 56th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge7th Milano–Torino20026th Henk Vos Memorial9th Overall Ster Elektrotoer10th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge200310th Gent–Wevelgem20044th Tour de Rijke10th Overall Sachsen Tour10th Schaal Sels-Merksem20051st Overall Sachsen Tour8th Overall Three Days of De Panne8th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge8th Dwars door Vlaanderen10th Trofeo Calvià20061st Road race, Commonwealth Games2nd Profronde van Fryslan3rd Overall Oddset-Rundfahrt20074th Dwars door Vlaanderen5th Tour de Rijke7th Profronde van Fryslan9th Overall Tour of Qatar200810th Ronde van het Groene Hart20094th Gent–Wevelgem7th Trofeo Inca8th Dwars door Vlaanderen8th Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen10th Tour de Rijke20105th Dwars door Vlaanderen20111st Paris–Bourges3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad4th Dwars door Vlaanderen6th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge10th Paris–Roubaix20128th Paris–Roubaix20133rd Dwars door Vlaanderen20161st Paris–Roubaix

Grand Tour results timeline

Cl*ics & Monuments results timelines

References

    External links

    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mathew Hayman.
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