Mathew Hayman

Mathew Hayman (born 20 April 1978) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2019 for the , and 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 classics, and was the winner of Paris–Roubaix in 2016. Following his retirement from racing after the 2019 Tour Down Under, Hayman remained with the 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 , 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 . Hayman left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season.

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

Major results

1996

2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 1999 1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux 2nd Overall Olympia's Tour 1st Stage 3b (TTT) 3rd Omloop der Kempen 2000 5th Overall Sparkassen Giro Bochum 6th Overall Guldensporentweedaagse 2001 1st Overall Challenge Mallorca 1st Sprints classification 1st Stage 5 1st Trofeo Soller 6th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 7th Milano–Torino 2002 6th Henk Vos Memorial 9th Overall Ster Elektrotoer 10th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 2003 10th Gent–Wevelgem 2004 4th Tour de Rijke 10th Overall Sachsen Tour 10th Schaal Sels-Merksem 2005 1st Overall Sachsen Tour 8th Overall Three Days of De Panne 8th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 8th Dwars door Vlaanderen 10th Trofeo Calvià 2006

2nd Profronde van Fryslan 3rd Overall Oddset-Rundfahrt 2007 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen 5th Tour de Rijke 7th Profronde van Fryslan 9th Overall Tour of Qatar 2008 10th Ronde van het Groene Hart 2009 4th Gent–Wevelgem 7th Trofeo Inca 8th Dwars door Vlaanderen 8th Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 10th Tour de Rijke 2010 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen 2011 1st Paris–Bourges 3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen 6th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 10th Paris–Roubaix 2012 8th Paris–Roubaix 2013 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen 2016 1st Paris–Roubaix

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Giro d'Italia 91 — — — 136 — DNF — 105 — — — — — — — — Tour de France — — — — — — — — — — — — DNF — 135 151 108 Vuelta a España — 137 — DNF — — — — — — — — — 130 — — —

Classics results timeline Monument 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Milan–San Remo — — — — 154 — 121 86 — 93 129 — DNF — DNF 62 — 137 — Tour of Flanders — — 70 82 — 47 90 68 — 60 13 21 79 DNF 51 39 — 91 83 Paris–Roubaix 65 49 HD 26 — 78 23 — 113 21 24108 52 51 761 11 22 Liège–Bastogne–Liège — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 141 — — — Giro di LombardiaDid not contest during his careerClassic 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — DNF 22 DNF — 32 22 15 60 27 1003 24 — — — DNF 50 DNF Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 63 45 — — 27 — 25 20 93 — 26 46 92 — — — — 66 33 Dwars door Vlaanderen — — 26 36 608 —4 46854 — — 55 — — 27 100 E3 Harelbeke — — — 36 — 22 — DNF — DNF — — — 28 DNF 74 — 37 47 Gent–Wevelgem 40 50 4110 — 25 — — 804 27 125 68 36 — 18 — 98 97 Scheldeprijs — — — — — — 17 — 92 — 153 31 38 107 — — — — — Amstel Gold Race — — — — — — — — — — 82 96 108 90 DNF DNF 84 124 — La Flèche Wallonne — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 144 — — Paris–Tours — — 58 82 40 36 14 89 — 119 — 12 — — — — 131 — — Milano–Torino —7 125 — 99 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

+ Legend — Did not competeHDHors delai (out of time limit) DNF Did not finish