Matthew Dinham

Matthew Dinham was born and raised in South Africa, where his father introduced him to bike-riding at the age of four.

He competed in BMX, downhill and cross-country mountain bike until the age of 11, when he and his family moved to Sydney. That brought road cycling into the mix, and Dinham continued racing across several disciplines, going so far as to compete for Australia at the 2017 UCI Junior Mountain Bike World Championships just weeks after becoming an Australian citizen.

He raced on the road first with Northern Sydney Cycling Club, then with Manly Warringah Cycling Club, and in 2020 joined Team BridgeLane to race the domestic and Continental circuits.

He continued combining road racing with mountain biking and became the under-23 XCO national champion in 2019 and the elite champion in 2022. That same year, Dinham took his first European road race win, taking the hilly one-day race La Maurienne.

He also represented Australia at the 2022 Tour de l'Avenir, finishing just outside the top 10, then returned to Australia for a home UCI World Championships in Wollongong, where he finished seventh in a rain-soaked under-23 road race.

In 2023, Dinham turned professional with Team dsm - firmenich, for whom he raced and finished his first Tour de France.

He enjoyed another fantastic performance in the green and gold when he placed seventh in a brutal elite men's road race at the UCI World Championships in Glasgow, holding on after riding in the early breakaway.

Unfortunately, Dinham spent most of 2024 sidelined with a foot injury and was unable to start more than a handful of races.