Matthew Glaetzer

Career He competed in the team sprint event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won the 2012 World Championship in the team sprint with Scott Sunderland and Shane Perkins. The next day, he won gold in the men's 1 km time trial.

At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Glaetzer courted controversy during the Keirin finals when he allowed a huge gap between Jason Kenny from Great Britain and the rest of the field.

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Glaetzer won gold in the men's team sprint alongside Leigh Hoffman and Matthew Richardson on the first day of the games. He also competed in the men's individual sprint event where he came 4th.

On 28 June 2024, Glaetzer was announced as a member of Australia's 2024 Olympics track cycling squad, the fourth Games of his career. He won his first Olympic medals in Paris; a bronze in the team sprint alongside Hoffman and Richardson, and a bronze in the keirin (beaten only by Richardson and Harrie Lavreysen).

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Personal life Glaetzer is a Christian. He stated that he has been a Christian all his life, but drifted from God during his teens due to injuries. He rededicated his life to God at a camp run by his local church. He also said God gave him the gift of cycling. Glaetzer leads a youth group at Influencers Church in Paradise, Adelaide.

Glaetzer is a student at University of South Australia, where he is studying a degree in Human Movement. He has stated that he wants to go into physiotherapy when he retires from cycling.