Matthias Brändle

Matthias Brändle (born 7 December 1989) is an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. Brändle is a seven-time winner of the Austrian National Time Trial Championships (2009, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021), and also won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2016.

Career In 2012, he rode for . In 2014, Brändle won two consecutive stages of the Tour of Britain.

In October 2014, he followed in the footsteps of his agent Tony Rominger by setting a new hour record, breaking the month-old record set by 43-year-old Jens Voigt under new regulations introduced by the UCI in June 2014 allowing the use of modern track pursuit racing bicycles. The record stood until 8 February 2015 when it was broken by Australian rider Rohan Dennis.

He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France. He won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2016.

Major results

2007

1st Stage 1

1st Stages 2 & 3 2008 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 2nd Overall Tour de Berlin 3rd Züri-Metzgete 4th Chrono Champenois 7th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell 9th Overall Cinturón a Mallorca 10th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 2009 (1 pro win) National Road Championships

3rd Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop U23 5th Overall Tour of Hainan 5th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 5th Rund um Köln 9th Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships 2010 1st GP Judendorf–Strassengel 8th Overall Tour de Langkawi 2011

2012 (1) 1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem 1st Stage 2b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 5th Giro dell'Appennino 9th Rund um Köln 2013 (1)

1st Tour du Jura 2nd Polynormande 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

4th Cholet-Pays de Loire 4th Tour de Berne 2014 (3)

National Road Championships

4th Road race 1st Tour de Berne Tour of Britain 1st Stages 5 & 6 5th Overall Tour of Belgium 10th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2015 (2) 1st Stage 6 Tour of Oman 1st Prologue Tour of Belgium 4th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole 2016 (2) National Road Championships

2017 (2) 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of Belgium 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Danmark Rundt 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne 4th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships 2018 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2019 (3)

2nd Overall Tour of Estonia 1st Prologue 3rd Overall Tour of Taihu Lake 1st Prologue 3rd Duo Normand (with Patrick Gamper) 7th Overall Okolo Slovenska 8th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2020 (1)

2021 (1)

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 2022 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish