Matt White

Matthew "Matt" White (born 22 February 1974 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional road racing cyclist. Most recently White worked as a sporting director for , leaving the team unexpectedly just before the 2025 Giro d'Italia. White also worked as a sporting director for but was let go because of doping offenses during his racing career. His most notable results are winning a stage of the 1999 Tour de Suisse and another stage victory at the 2005 Tour Down Under. He mainly worked as a domestique throughout his career, sacrificing personal ambitions to help his leader. In 2004, Matthew moved to the French Cofidis team to join fellow Australian Stuart O'Grady.

He was selected in the team to ride the 2004 Tour de France, but did not make the start line after falling and breaking his collar bone just hours prior to the start while warming up. Much to his relief he was selected again in 2005 and made it to the start. In 2005, he won stage 4 at the Tour Down Under, besting fellow Aussie Robbie McEwen to the sprint after their escape group of six riders succeeded.

White also coached his wife, Jane Saville, to a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the 20 km race walk. The couple split their time between Sydney and Oliva, Spain.

In 2012, as head of Australia's cycling team, Orica-GreenEDGE, Matt White admitted that during his competitive career he used performance-enhancing drugs while on the squad, where doping formed part of the team's strategy and said "I too was involved in that strategy". He stood down from his role with Orica-GreenEDGE on 13 October 2012. On 17 October 2012 Matt White was sacked as a national coach by Cycling Australia due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs. Despite his involvement in doping Orica-GreenEDGE announced on 11 June 2013 that it was reinstating Matt White as their sports director.

Major results

1992

1996 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Wellington 2nd Overall Tour de Beauce 3rd Overall Tour of Wellington 1997 2nd Overall Giro del Capo 2nd Hennesee Rundfahrt 1998 1st Joseph Sunde Memorial 1999 1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse 2002 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya 1st Noosa International Criterium 1st 1st South Bank GP 2005 1st Stage 4 Tour Down Under 2007 1st Cronulla International Grand Prix