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**Mark Cavendish**
Personal information

Full name	Mark Cavendish
Nickname	Cav
Date of birth	May 21 1985 (1985-05-21) (age 22)
Country	United Kingdom
Team information
Current team	Team High Road
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2006 2007–	Team Sparkasse Team High Road
Infobox last updated on:
July 11, 2007

Medal record
Track cycling
Competitor for Great Britain
World Championships
Gold	2005 Los Angeles	Madison
Competitor for Isle of Man
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2006 Melbourne	Scratch race

Mark Cavendish is a cyclist from the Isle of Man (born 21 May 1985). Originally a track cyclist competing in the Madison, points race, and scratch race, he moved on to become a professional road racing cyclist in 2007. He made his track debut for Great Britain in the 2004 Moscow World Cup. As a road cyclist, he has quickly risen to prominence as a sprinter. Cavendish was introduced to the world of cycling about the age of 12, having previously been a keen BMXer. He now splits his time living and training between Manchester and Tuscany, Italy.

1 Career biography
2 Career highlights
- 2.1 Major track results
- 2.2 Major road results
3 References
4 External links

Career biography

Cavendish's cycling career started as a successful track cyclist. Amongst his best results were his gold medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games scratch race, riding for the Isle of Man; and his gold medals in the 2005 World Championships Madison and 2005 European Championships point races. Also during the 2005 season, he began road racing, riding in the Tour of Berlin and the Tour of Britain. Cavendish began the 2006 road cycling season riding for the Continental cycling team Team Sparkasse. In June, he won two stages in the Tour of Berlin, as well as the points competition and the sprints competition. ^[1] This result led to him gaining a post as a stagiare with T-Mobile from August until the end of the season. ^[2] His best result whilst riding for T-Mobile in 2006 came during the Tour of Britain, where he took three second places and won the points classification. This result helped him secure a full-time professional contract with T-Mobile for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. ^[3] Cavendish's 2007 season began successfully, with a win in the Belgian semi-classic the Grote Scheldeprijs being followed by two in each of the Four Days of Dunkirk and the Volta a Catalunya. This led to him being selected for the 2007 Tour de France. However, his Tour was not as successful as might have been hoped based on his record before it began. Crashes in both of stages 1 and 2 removed two him from contention for two of the stages won by sprinters, and left him heavily bruised. ^[4] He abandoned the tour on stage 8, in a pre-planned withdrawal as soon as the race reached the high Alps, having taken two top-ten placings but stating that he was unhappy not to have had at least one top-five placing during his week in the Tour. ^[5] Despite this failure to make a greater impression in his first Tour de France, his highly successful debut season continued, with ten stage wins by mid-September, ahead of Robbie McEwen's record of eight wins in his first season as a professional, and only one behind the mark set by Alessandro Petacchi.^[6]. By early October, Cavendish had taken his eleventh win the Circuit Franco-Belge, to equal Petacchi's record. Amongst these wins were three in UCI ProTour events, the two in the Volta a Catalunya and one in the Eneco Tour of Benelux. Cavendish is known for his strong anti-drug stance. As part of this, he was, along with Francaise des Jeux rider Sandy Casar, one of the first two riders to sign the UCI's new anti-doping charter, introduced just before the 2007 Tour de France. ^[7]

Career highlights

Major track results

UCI Track World Championships: 2005 - Los Angeles, 1st, Madison (with Rob Hayles); Rob Hayles and Mark gave Britain their fourth gold at the UCI Track World Championships in Los Angeles, California in the men's Madison. The pair finished one lap ahead of the field to claim the 200-lap race, ahead of the Dutch and Belgian teams.; Mark was only taken to Los Angeles to get some senior experience and the two had not raced together before.^[8]
Commonwealth Games: 2006 - Melbourne, 1st Scratch Race; Over 80 laps of the Melbourne track in the Commonwealth Games 2006, Cavendish raced to get a lap up on the field, with four other cyclists. Only the five racers managed to get the one lap up and in the final sprint for the line to decide the medals, with a lead from Rob Hayles, Cavendish (racing for the Isle of Man), won the gold medal, beating Ashley Hutchinson (Australia) and James McCallum (Scotland). He finished with a time of 23 mins 05.540 secs and an average speed of 51.965 km/hour.
UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics: 2005 - Manchester, 2nd Team pursuit; 2005 - Manchester, 3rd Madison; 2005 - Sydney, 3rd, Madison (with Tom White); 2005 - Sydney, 2nd, Team pursuit 4:11.728/4:10.735, (with Brammeier, White, Clancy); 2007 - Beijing, 2nd, Madison (with Bradley Wiggins)
European Championships: 2005 - 1st Points race; 2005 - 4th Scratch Race
British Championships: 2005 - 1st Circuit Road Race Championship (Otley); 2005 - 3rd Scratch Race (Track); 2004 - 2nd, Madison, British Senior Track Championship (with Ed Clancy); 2003 - 2nd, Scratch Race, British Junior Championships; 2003 - 2nd, Sprint, British Junior Championships; 2003 - 2nd, Road Race, British Junior Championships
Others: 2007 - 1st, Revolution 16, 15km Scratch Race; 2004 - 1st, Bremen UIV Talent Cup Madison (with Geraint Thomas); 2004 - 1st, Munich UIV Talents Cup Madison (with Matt Brammeier); 2004 - 1st, Revolution 6 Madison Kilometre, (Current record Holder) 57.457s (with Ed Clancy)