Matthew Teggart (born 8 January 1996) is a retired

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from

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. He rode for teams including

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and WiV SunGod. He took one victory on the

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and won the Sprints competition at the

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Career

Team history

Teggart started his career at amateur French team AC Bisontine in 2015. He turned professional in 2017 with Irish team

which folded at the end of the season. He moved to Team Wiggins for 2018 and spent the last year of his first stint in the professional ranks at EvoPro Racing in 2019. He returned to AC Bisontine in 2020 and spent 2021 at another French amateur team, VC Villefranche Beaujolais. His final season in team colours prior to retirement saw him return to the professional ranks with WiV SunGod in 2022.

Notable results

Teggart has one professional cycling victory, winning a stage of the 2017 An Post Rás in the colours of

. In addition to winning stage three, Teggart had two other top-ten stage results in the race and finished ninth in the general classification. He won the Sprints classification at the

. Teggart took the lead in the competition on stage one and held it until the race was declared finished due to the death of

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with five of the eight stages completed. Teggart narrowly missed out on a medal in the elite Men's Road Race at the

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. The race finished in a sprint, with Teggart losing out to Scotland's

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in a photo finish for 3rd place. He contested the Irish National Championships Road Race on five occasions, with a best finish of fourth in 2021. He also had top-ten finishes on the

at the 2018 Paris–Arras Tour and

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in 2022, and won the

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in 2021.

Retirement

Teggart's last start in a recognised race was at the Cycling Ulster Road Championship in August 2023. He has subsequently noted on Instagram that he is now an ex-pro cyclist and works as an endurance coach.https://www.instagram.com/matthew_teggart/reels/

Major results

;2017 (1 pro win) : 9th Overall An Post Rás ::1st Stage 3 ;2018 : 10th Overall Paris–Arras Tour ;2021 : 1st

;2022 : 1st Sprints classification,

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: 4th Road race,

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: 4th

References

External links

* 1996 births Living people Irish male cyclists European Games competitors for Ireland Cyclists at the 2019 European Games 21st-century Irish sportsmen {{Ireland-cycling-bio-stub