{"id":50080,"date":"2025-05-01T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=50080"},"modified":"2025-05-04T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T08:15:06","slug":"magic-matthews-finishes-off-perfect-team-jayco-alula-performance-to-win-eschborn-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/magic-matthews-finishes-off-perfect-team-jayco-alula-performance-to-win-eschborn-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Matthews finishes off perfect Team Jayco AlUla performance to win Eschborn-Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian <strong>Michael Matthews<\/strong> finished off a perfect <strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong>\u00a0performance in style as he sprinted to glory in Germany at <strong>Eschborn-Frankfurt<\/strong>.<br>\u00a0<br>The 34-year-old took the win with his trademark sprint finish to wrap up a consistent spring campaign with a well-deserved trip to the top step of the podium.<br>\u00a0<br>The result was more than deserved for a Team Jayco AlUla squad that ripped the 198km race a part. The team powered to the front of the bunch ahead of the demanding hilly section before upping the pace and shredding the peloton to leave just 30 riders in contention.<br>\u00a0<br>Coppi e Bartali stage winner <strong>Paul Double<\/strong> thenkept the tempo up, while <strong>Davide De Pretto <\/strong>and <strong>Felix Engelhardt<\/strong> looked after their team leader Matthews. Despite some late attacks over the final climb of the day, the reduced peloton reached Frankfurt in one piece, and as the bell rang for the final lap, a sprint finish seemed inevitable.<br>\u00a0<br>As the pack raced through the streets, Matthews used all his experience to work his way to the front and position himself amongst his biggest rivals for the win. Then with the line insight he launched his sprint, surprising his competitors as he raced away to take the victory.<br>\u00a0<br><strong><u>Michael Matthews:<\/u><\/strong><br><em>\u201cI think my shape through the spring was good, I just wasn\u2019t on the top step. It\u2019s nice to finish off this block with a win here in Frankfurt. It\u2019s a race that has really suited me for a lot of years and I haven\u2019t been able to win it, so to come here with the team and the way we rode \u2013 we rode perfectly \u2013 and to execute a performance like my team did today it was the icing on top of the cake.<\/em><br>\u00a0<br><em>I didn\u2019t expect my team to go so hard on the second long climb, but we split the bunch a lot and got rid of a lot of the fast guys, which was the goal. I think the team\u2019s performance was exceptional and to finish it off the way I did, I\u2019m so thankful to my teammates.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2025 Eschborn-Frankfurt:<br><\/span>1.<strong> Michael Matthews (Team Jayco AlUla)<\/strong> 4:38:43<br>2. Magus Cort ST<br>3. Jon Barrenetxea ST<br><br><em>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Michael Matthews finished off a perfect Team Jayco AlUla\u00a0performance in style as he sprinted to glory in Germany at Eschborn-Frankfurt.\u00a0The 34-year-old took the win with his trademark sprint&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50083,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080\/revisions\/50083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}