Matt Baranoski
  • Discipline: Track
  • Date of birth: 7/27/1993
  • Height: 6'0
  • Weight: 212 lbs
  • Education: Penn State University
  • Birthplace: Perkasie, PA
  • Hometown: Perkasie, PA
  • Residence: Perkasie, PA
  • Team/Sponsors: Pure Energy Velo/Felt Bicycles/Oakley/Bo

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Points of Interest/Personal

  • Matt first took to track cycling at 6 years old with the Air Products development programs at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.
  • In 2010, Matt won both the junior 17-18 and elite men’s keirin national championships. At 17 years old, he became the youngest male to ever win an American elite track national championship.
  • Matt writes “Believe” on his handlebars at events, tapping it just before he races to help focus and to remind him that, “if I believe in myself, I can do anything”.
  • Matt is studying electrical engineering at the Penn State University Schreyer Honors College and will graduate in December.
  • His dad is his full time coach. They do the majority of my training on a track bike on a backroad near Matt’s house with a motorcycle and not on a track.

Olympic/World Championship Results

  • 2016 UCI Track World Championships, London, England — Did not advance past first round repechage of keirin
  • 2015 UCI Track World Championships, St. Quentin en Yvelines, France — Did not advance past first round repechage of keirin
  • 2011 UCI Junior Track World Championships, Moscow, Russia — 3rd 1k time trial; 7th keirin; 7th sprint
  • 2010 UCI Junior Track World Championships, Montichiari, Italy — 3rd keirin; 35th sprint 
Career Highlights
Fifteen-time Elite National Champion — 2015 (keirin, sprint, team sprint & 1km time trial); 2014 (keirin, sprint, team sprint & 1km time trial); 2013 (keirin, sprint, team sprint & 1km time trial); 2012 (sprint & 1km time trial); 2010 (keirin)
Six-time Collegiate National Champion — 2013 (collegiate sprint & collegiate time trial); 2012 (collegiate sprint & collegiate time trial); 2012 (collegiate sprint & collegiate time trial)
Fourteen-time Junior National Champion — 2011 (Junior 17-18 keirin, scratch race, sprint, team sprint & 1km time trial); 2010 (Junior 17-18 keirin, scratch race, sprint & team sprint); 2009 (Junior 15-16 omnium, scratch race & sprint); 2008 (Junior 15-16 sprint); 2005 (Junior 10-12 omnium)
200m time trial U.S. National Record Holder
 
3rd — 2015/16 UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Colombia, keirin
3rd — 2015/16 UCI Track World Cup, Cambridge, New Zealand, keirin
2nd — 2015/16 overall UCI Track World Cup keirin standings
3rd — 2013 Pan American Championships, Mexico City, Mexico, team sprint