Matti Breschel

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Matti Breschel
Personal information
Full name Matti Breschel
Date of birth August 31, 1984 (1984-08-31) (age 23)
Country Flag of Denmark Denmark
Height 1.81m
Weight 61 kg
Team information
Current team Team CSC
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
until 2004 Team PH
Professional team(s)
2005- Team CSC
Infobox last updated on:
January 15, 2007

Matti Breschel (born 31 August 1984 in Ballerup) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProTour outfit Team CSC.

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[edit] Career

He got his breakthrough with small Danish Team PH, finishing 6th at the U/23 Cycling World Championship in Verona in 2004 where he helped fellow Dane Mads Christensen finish 3rd. He also won the bronze medal at the Danish National Road Racing Championship during the summer of 2004 as well.

He turned professional for the 2005 season in Denmark based Team CSC, where he signed a two-year contract. At the press conference, regarding his choice to join Team CSC in October 2004, he stated that he simply wished to adjust to the rigors of professional cycling, saying "I hope to get in the team, but in the beginning I just want to learn the game and to learn the races. Somewhere I know that I'm in for a beating."[1] Under tutelage of seasoned veteran Lars Michaelsen,[2] Breschel would start the season in the Tour of Qatar, where the two riders finished side by side, Breschel conceding the final victory to Michaelsen. They would ride a number of classics and smaller races together, and Breschel finished in a number of secondary placings, just missing the victory podiums.

For the start of the 2006 season, he once again showed himself in Tour of Qatar, finishing the best young rider of the race for the second year in a row. He showed his good form in March with a third place finish in Le Samyn, being beaten only by Philippe Gilbert in the bunch sprint of the peloton, and a few days later he sprinted his way to second place at stage 2 of the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen where he was second only to world class sprinter Robbie McEwen. For the third, and last, stage of the race, Breschel would once more sprint against McEwen, with the winner taking the overall victory of the race, this time with the effect that both riders crashed. Breschel broke his vertebrae in two places and McEwen was de-classed in the race.[3]

After recovering he won his first victory as a professionel in stage 2 of Danmark Rundt in August 2007. This was the first Danish stage win in five years of this national tour.

On June 8, 2008, Matti Breschel won the Philadelphia International Championship in Philadelphia, PA.

[edit] Career highlights

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Matti Breschel signs for CSC by CyclingNews.com, October 21, 2004
  2. ^ "Matti i mester- lære", Ekstra Bladet, December 10, 2004
  3. ^ Injured Breschel blames McEwen by CyclingNews.com, March 6, 2006

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NAME Breschel, Matti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1984-08-31
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballerup, Denmark
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH