Irish international rider Matthew Teggart has signed for a new team in the UK for the remainder of this season following the collapse of AT85 Pro Cycling Team, who he planned to race for, shortly after the 2023 campaign began.
Teggart, who has represented Ireland and Northern Ireland on the road, raced in France for several seasons before joining British Continental team WiV-SunGod last year, which became AT85 Pro Cycling Team for 2023, though it soon collapsed due to sponsorship issues.
Teggart will now ride for the ROKit SRCT elite team for the remainder of this year. The team was established by Scott Redding (30), a Superbike world championship winner who was also British superbike champion in 2019.
In recent years he has taken up cycling in a big way. He not only competes on the British cycling scene – which he somehow combines with his superbike career – but has also founded the Rokit-SRCT cycling team based in the West Midlands. Teggart will get the chance to ride at home and on the UK scene through the remainder of the season with the team.
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The 27-year-old is a double Rás Tailteann stage winner - last year and in 2017 - and also held the yellow jersey on those editions of the race. He previously rode for the An Post-Sean Kelly team, in 2017, before moving to Team Wiggins for 2018 and EvoPro Racing for the 2019 campaign.
He then went back to France to ride for elite teams - AC Bisontine and VC Villefranche Beaujolais - before joining WiV-SunGod at the start of last year.
Teggart enjoyed an especially strong Tour of Britain last season with the team, going on the attack through the race and winning the sprints classification. The event was cut short when Queen Elizabeth died but by the time the final stages were cancelled, Teggart had already built a significant lead in the sprints competition.
Teggart was also 4th in the road race at the Commonwealth Games last year, when he competed on the Northern Ireland team. He has represented Ireland at the elite Europeans on the road as well as the Wolds, Europeans and Tour de l'Avenir, among other races, as an U23 rider.
