{"id":390658,"date":"2026-01-04T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390658\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:09:17","slug":"matthias-schwarzbacher-ef-pro-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390658\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthias Schwarzbacher | EF Pro Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ef-text-para -light -no-max-width\">Matthias Schwarzbacher is thrilled to join EF Education-EasyPost for his rookie WorldTour season. The 20-year-old from Brezno, Slovakia had a breakthrough year in 2025, finishing sixth in the U23 version of Paris-Roubaix before winning the opening stage of the Giro d&#8217;Italia Next Gen. That victory against the clock was the most significant moment of Matthias\u2019 emerging career, and more success followed with a win in the elite men\u2019s time trial at the national championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ef-text-para -light -no-max-width\">Matthias came to cycling from biathlon, but quickly developed a passion for road racing when he was a young teenager, watching Slovakia\u2019s top star, Peter Sagan, on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ef-text-para -light -no-max-width\">He is a punchy rider, with a strong sprint and huge turn of power, who can develop into a key lead out rider for us and excel in the classics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ef-text-para -light -no-max-width\">For his first year with the squad, he is going to focus on developing the resilience he\u2019ll need to race a full WorldTour calendar and learn as much as he can from his coaches, sports directors, and teammates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthias Schwarzbacher is thrilled to join EF Education-EasyPost for his rookie WorldTour season. The 20-year-old from Brezno, Slovakia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-390658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}