Everything about Matteo Jorgenson

Who is Matteo Jorgenson?

Matteo Jorgenson is an American professional cyclist who races for Team Visma | Lease a Bike. He is the winner of races such as Paris-Nice and Dwars door Vlaanderen and is one of the most versatile riders in the current peloton.

Name: Matteo Jorgenson
Born: 1 July 1999
Place of birth: Walnut Creek, United States of Americac
Turned pro: 2018
Height: 1.90m

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Matteo Jorgenson won the 2024 Paris-Nice ahead of Remco Evenepoe. @ProShots

Matteo Jorgenson is an American rider who was born in the state of California but grew up and got into the sport in Idaho. Since a young age he showed himself to be a talented rider, making an impression in the national circuit. For three years he raced for the Hot Tubes Development Cycling Team where he got a taste of racing in Europe, and in 2018 he turned pro with Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis. Having raced in France, he signed with the AG2R development team in 2019 and managed to get a stint as a trainee later in the year.

He had a few strong results including the points classification at the Tour de l'Avenir which was convincing enough for World Tour teams to surge in interest. He signed with Movistar into 2020 but raced only 22 days because of the pandemic cutting the calendar short and the lack of a Grand Tour in his calendar. In 2021 he began showing great signs of being a strong talent finishing 8th at Paris-Nice and made his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia. He lacked big results from the year but got a lot of experience in what was a full calendar.

Come 2022 Jorgenson was better equipped to fight for results, early in the year he was 4th at the Tour de la Provence, but was injured in March. Still he recovered to finish 13th at the Criterium du Dauphiné and then had three Top5 results at his debut Tour de France. In 2023 he won the Tour of Oman at the start of the year putting on a strong set of climbing performances. He followed that up with another 8th spot at Paris-Nice, but then soared in the cobbled classics surprisingly, coming 4th at the E3 Saxo Classic (only behind van Aert, van der Poel and Pogacar) and then 9th at the Tour of Flanders. Right after his stage-racing skills were again in the spotlight as he rode to second at the Tour de Romandie.

We were facing a tremendously versatile rider, who chased stage wins at the Tour de France and was close on stage 9, but a long-range solo attack into Puy de Dôme did not work by a matter of a kilometer. He was 7th at the Tour of Guangxi before ending the season, signing a big deal with Team Visma | Lease a Bike which would prove to be a massive move for both sides. He had complained about his lack of support at Movistar and how he had even financed his own training camps, but at Visma his level would change significantly.

Right at the start of 2024 he won his first World Tour race at Paris-Nice. He took the win after being in the tactically key attack on stage 6 that distanced race favourites Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic; hung on on stage 7 to Madone d'Utelle; and then was the only rider to match Remco Evenepoel's attack on the queen stage to Nice. He did not win the stage, but got a 'home' win (he lived in the area) as he took over the race lead on the final day. Shortly after he finished 5th at the E3 Saxo Classic and then won Dwars door Vlaanderen with a strong solo attack as Visma dominated the competition. He was set to be Mathieu van der Poel's closest rival at the Tour of Flanders and was the closest to following on the Koppenberg, but exploded and finished far from the front - he would have similar performances later in the year at the GP de Montréal and Giro dell'Emilia, with Tadej Pogacar.

But before, he led Visma at the Criterium du Dauphiné where he put in a very consistent and brilliant week of racing, finishing second on the final two mountain stages of the race and the overall classification, only 8 seconds off the yellow jersey of Primoz Roglic. He started the Tour de France as a domestique for Jonas Vingegaard, but despite that he still finished high up in the standings. Finishing the race in great form, he jumped into the Top10 on stage 19 and finished 8th in the final overall classification. Jorgenson was also 9th at the Olympic Games Road Race a week later.