Heading for Los Angeles 2028! Like any pure track rider, Genevan Matteo Constant rides and trains on the velodrome with the next Olympic Games in mind – he will then be 25 years old. Not that he is still a must-have in the Swiss team but, meter by meter, the sprinter with the thin mustache is getting closer to this status. Like this Saturday, where he became Swiss Open Champion, in Granges.
EVERYTHING WAS DECIDED IN THE POINTS RACE
“A little surprised” (he had cut two weeks between the end of December and the beginning of January, before riding for seven days in Spain, in Calpe), the rider licensed with Elite Fondations Cycling Team totals 126 points in the Omnium ranking. One more than Noah Bögli and Mats Poot, who complete the podium, this first Elite National Champion title extends his bronze medal at the European U21 Championships in 2024, still in the Omnium.
Matthew Constant, here “loves this exercise, where the events balance each other“, won the decision in the last of the four rounds on the program, the points race. “I was able to run as I like, sometimes hiding, sometimes putting on the watts!“, confided to DirectVelo the one who had been selected for the national team to compete, on the road, in the 2024 Tour de Romandie.
-LOS ANGELES IN THE HEAD
“With this Elite track title, I take a new step“, adds the winner, who admits “think about Los Angeles in the long term… Or rather medium term, because we will be there in less than four years now!“. But between now and a possible qualification for the Holy Grail of track riders, the new Swiss Champion has set the milestones. He hopes to be selected for the European Track Championships, which will be held from February 12 to 16 in Heusden- Zolder (Belgium).
Matteo Constant will then continue to divide his time between possible track training camps, his law studies at the University of Lausanne and his road calendar with Élite Fondations. Endowed with a keen burst of speed, he hopes for new successes in Switzerland or France, having won the Chazal Classic – Dijon-Auxonne-Dijon in 2023 and finished 2nd in the Tour du Jura (Switzerland) in 2024.
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