# 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 Team NetApp. 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 Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
       1st Stage 1
    1st Overall Tour de Haute-Autriche
       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
       1st Time trial
       1st Under-23 time trial
    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

    1st Sprints classification, Tour de Romandie

### 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 Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Sprints classification, Tour de Romandie
    1st Mountains classification, Tour de l'Ain
    1st Tour du Jura
    2nd Polynormande
    4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Young rider classification
    4th Cholet-Pays de Loire
    4th Tour de Berne

### 2014 (3)

    Hour record: 51.852 km
    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       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
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial

### 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)

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    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)

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships

### 2021 (1)

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

### 2022

    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | 90 | — | 111 | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | 126 | 130 | 147 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | 156 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | 155 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 158 | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |