Mark Scanlon (cyclist)

Mark Scanlon (cyclist)
Mark Scanlon
Personal information
Full name Mark Scanlon
Born 10 October 1980 (1980-10-10) (age 31)
Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 79 kg (170 lb)
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Retired
Amateur team(s)
1992–1995
1996–1998
1999
2000
2001
2001–2003
2003		 Éire Óg CC
Sligo CC
Rabobank Development
CC Etupes
VC Nantes 44
VC La Pomme
AG2R (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2003–2006
2007		 AG2R Prévoyance
Toyota-United
Major wins
MaillotIrlanda.PNG National Elite Road Race Champion (2002, 2003)
MaillotMundial.PNG World Junior Road Race Champion (1998)
National Junior Road Race Champion (1998)
Infobox last updated on
8 July 2008

Mark Scanlon (born 10 October 1980 in Cranmore, Sligo) is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist. Scanlon came to prominence when he won the junior race at the 1998 world road race championship, on his 18th birthday.

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Amateur career

After winning the championship, Scanlon signed for the Rabobank cycling team's development squad. He failed to break through because of injuries and he left in 2000. He joined CC Etupes in France and rode lesser French races. Linda McCartney Racing Team offered him a contract in 2001 but folded before he joined them. Scanlon continued to ride in France with VC Nantes 44 and then VC La Pomme Marseille. In 2002 he won the Irish road championship.

Professional career

Scanlon signed for AG2R Prévoyance for 2003. He won a stage of that year's Tour of Denmark, leading the race for three days. He won the Irish championship again. In 2004 Scanlon became the first Irishman in the Tour de France since Stephen Roche in 1993. He also represented Ireland in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the road race on the opening day of the Games. Scanlon was injured for much of 2005 and 2006 but rode the 2006 Giro d'Italia.

He left the AG2R Prévoyance team at the end of 2006, disillusioned with the amount of racing required in the ProTour. At the start of 2007, he rode for the Toyota-United team in the USA. In 2007 there were reports he had retired.[1][2] Scanlon denied them, saying he would like to captain a third division Irish continental team[3] but for the time being, he had taken a "step back from professional cycling."[2]

Major achievements

1998
2000 – CC Etupes
  • 1st overall, Belfast-Dublin-Belfast (part of Ireland team)
    • 2 stage wins
  • Tour of Hokkaido
    • 1st, Stage 6
    • 1st, Stage 1
    • Points class winner
  • 3rd, Irish Elite Road Race Championship (CN)
2001
2002 – VC La Pomme
2003 – AG2R Prévoyance
  • 1st, MaillotIrlanda.PNG Irish Elite Road Race Championship (CN)
  • 5th overall, Tour of Denmark
    • Stage win
    • Points: 4th
    • Young rider: 3rd
    • held yellow & points jersey
  • 12th overall, Tour de Picardie (2.2)
    • 13th, Stage 4
  • 57th, Tour of Germany
    • 5th, Stage 1
  • 67th, World Championships - Elite Road Race
2004 – AG2R Prévoyance
  • 89th overall, Tour de France
    • First Grand Tour completed
    • Young rider: 14th
  • 1st, Ühispanga Tartu GP
  • 1st, E.O.S GP de Tallinn
  • 4th, Trophy de Grimpers
  • 18th overall, Tour of Denmark
  • Represented Ireland at Athens Olympics Road Race
2005 – AG2R Prévoyance
  • Circuit des Ardennes (2.2): 1st, Stage 4
  • 2nd, Irish Elite Road Race Championship (CN)
  • 3rd, Tour du Doubs
  • 3rd, Tour de la Somme
2006 – AG2R Prévoyance
  • 5th, Memorial Samy
  • 19th, Omloop Het Volk

References

  1. ^ "Scanlon retires from cycling". rte.ie. http://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2007/0822/scanlon.html. Retrieved 2007-09-06. 
  2. ^ a b "Former world champion gets ready for the next stage - with no regret". Sligo weekender. http://www.sligoweekender.ie/news/story.asp?j=33572&cat=sport. Retrieved 2007-09-06. 
  3. ^ "You can't compete with drug cheats". Sunday tribune. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20071009050329/http://www.tribune.ie/article.tvt?_scope=Tribune/Sport/Other+Sport&id=76042&SUBCAT=Tribune/Sport. Retrieved 2007-09-06. 

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