Matthew Hauser

Fast Facts

Sport: Triathlon
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Highlights: 2017 World Junior Champion
Year Born: 1998
State Born: QLD

About Matthew

Hervey Bay-born Matthew Hauser is a middle and long-distance runner competing in the triathlon event. He currently sits at #7 in the World Triathlon Rankings, the highest of any current Australian.

Matthew's junior career began when he won the 2014 Penrith ITU Triathlon Oceania Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Qualifier event with a margin of almost 30 seconds. Unfortunately, he did not compete at the Games in Nanjing later that year. 

Representing Australia at his first Commonwealth Games in 2018 in front of a home crowd, Matthew missed the podium by a heartbreaking two seconds in his individual event. He was, however, a member of the Australian Mixed Relay Team that won a gold medal. He finished his leg of the relay with the fastest time in the entire field, leading Australia to a victory over England and New Zealand. 

Hauser finished 2018 on a rough note, recuperating from a fractured metacarpal, as well as undergoing a shoulder reconstruction back home on the Gold Coast. He was out of competition for a year, competing in his first triathlon in May of 2019 at the 2019 Chengdu ITU Triathlon World Cup where he finished the final in first place. 

Matthew competed in the World Triathlon Individual Olympic Qualifying event in 2019, held in Tokyo's Odaiba Marine Park. He completed the 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run in a time of 1:53.44, placing him 30th in a field of 65. 

Matthew then competed at the 2021 Oceania Triathlon Championships in Port Douglas, where he finished in second place with a time of 1:40.00, just one second behind the champion. He placed first in the under-23 elite men's category. 

Hauser came into his first Olympic Games with 18 World Triathlon wins and 23 World Triathlon podiums under his belt. Making his Olympic debut at the delayed Tokyo 2020 games, in both the men's and mixed relay triathlon.

Individually Matthew achieved an overall 24th placing in the men's triathlon with a total time of 1:47:35. The Australian team competing in the mixed relay triathlon achieved a top 10 finish in the event, coming in an overall 9th in the event with a total time of 1:26:27.