Mark Cavendish
Professional Road Racing Cyclist, Award Winner
1985 –
Who is Mark Cavendish?
Mark Simon Cavendish, MBE is a Manx professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Omega Pharma-Quick Step. Originally a track cyclist specialising in the madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines, he has competed on the road since 2006, rising to prominence as a sprinter, widely considered to be the fastest road cyclist in the world.
On the track Cavendish won gold in the Madison at the 2005 and 2008 world championships riding for Great Britain, with Rob Hayles and Bradley Wiggins respectively, and in the scratch race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games riding for Isle of Man.
As a road cyclist, Cavendish achieved eleven wins in his first professional season, equalling the record held by Alessandro Petacchi. Cavendish has won twenty-five Tour de France stages putting him third on the all-time list and fourth on the all-time list of Grand Tour stage winners with forty-three victories. He won the road race at the 2011 road world championships, becoming the second British rider to do so after Tom Simpson in 1965.
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- Born
- May 21, 1985
Douglas - Also known as
- Manx Missile
- Mark Simon Cavendish
- Parents
- Spouses
- Peta Todd
(2011 - )
- Peta Todd
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Manx people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Isle of Man
- Profession
- Lived in
- Quarrata
- Douglas
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on July 23, 2013
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