Malcolm Elliott

Malcolm Elliott

Malcolm Elliott at the 1989 Tour of Britain in his Teka team colours
Personal information
Born	1 July 1961 (1961-07-01) (age 50)  England  United Kingdom
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
Rutland CC Manchester Wheelers' Club
Professional team(s)
1984–1985 1986–1987 1988 1989–1990 1991–1992 1993–1996 1997 2003–2005 2006 2007–2008 2009 2010	Raleigh –Weinmann ANC–Halfords Fagor Teka Seur Chevrolet–LA Sheriffs Comptel–Colorado Cyclist Pinarello–Assos Plowman Craven Pinarello RT Canditv–Marshalls Pasta RT Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta
Major wins
Sealink International Milk Race Kellogg's Tour of Britain National Champion
Medal record Competitor for  England Road bicycle racing Commonwealth Games Gold Brisbane 1982 Individual Road Race Gold Brisbane 1982 Team Time Trial

Malcolm Elliott (born 1 July 1961) is an English professional cyclist, whose professional career has lasted from 1984 to 1997 when he retired and from 2003 up to the present day when he made his comeback in British domestic racing.

Known as a sprinter, his career includes two stages and the points jersey in the Vuelta a España, two gold medals in the Commonwealth Games, and winning the amateur Milk Race and its professional version, the Kellogg's Tour. He rode and finished the Tour de France in 1987 and 1988.

Biography

Background

Elliott was brought up in the Wadsley area of Sheffield. His joined Rutland Cycling Club in Sheffield at 15 where he was selected for the British team for the world junior championship in Argentina in 1979. In 1980 riding for Rutland CC, Elliott won the British National Hill Climb Championships, beating Jeff Williams by one fifth of a second. He also raced for the UV Aube cycling club in Troyes, France, for part of 1980 season to gain experience of racing on the continent before being selected for the British team pursuit at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He, Sean Yates and Tony Doyle finished fifth.

Elliott's breakthrough came at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane where he took gold medals in the road race and the team time trial.

Professional career

1983 was Elliott's final year as an amateur and he took six stages of the Milk Race before turning professional with Raleigh-Weinmann in 1984. Further domestic success followed in 1984 and 1985 before switching to the ANC–Halfords Cycling Team in 1986, alongside Graham Jones, Paul Watson and Joey McLoughlin. ANC–Halfords raced on the continent as well as in Britain. Elliott finished third in the 1987 Amstel Gold Race. The team received an invitation to the 1987 Tour de France with Elliott finishing 94th overall and third on the stage into Bordeaux.

In 1988 Elliott joined the Fagor team, led by Stephen Roche. Elliott took his first stage in the Vuelta a España that year and another one in 1989, by which time he had switched to the Spanish Teka team. He rode in Europe until the end of the 1992 when he signed for the American team, Chevrolet–LA Sheriffs.

Malcolm Elliott in the Jersey Town Criterium 2009 in Saint Helier

Elliott had four for Chevrolet, winning the First Union Grand Prix and the Redlands Classic and taking a stage in the Tour DuPont. In 1997 he moved to Comptel–Colorado Cyclist but the team hit financial trouble. That led Elliott to retire at the end of 1997 aged 36.

Comeback

Elliott returned at the start of 2003 at 42. Riding as an individual for the Pinarello-Assos squad (set up by his former manager at ANC–Halfords, Phil Griffiths), he won in the Havant International GP and stages in the Irish Milk Ras. For 2006 Elliott signed for Plowman Craven team and won the National Elite Circuit Series. On 24 August 2006 in St. Johann, Austria, he became UCI road masters world champion.

In 2009, he was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.^[1]

For the 2010 season, Elliott will be riding with the newly launched Motorpoint Pro-Cycling Team. The ten-strong team, based in Stone in Staffordshire, will see Elliott once again managed by Keith Lambert and run by Phil Griffiths. The team are scheduled to compete in such high-profile races as the Tour of Britain and 'UK Tour Series' - the city centre-based cycling race series broadcast live on TV. On 16 May 2010 he set the record for completing the Etape du Dales sportive in 5 hours and 43 minutes.^[2]

Palmarès

1979

3rd National junior road race series^[3]

1980

5th Olympic Games 4,000 metres team pursuit

Winner of British National Hill Climb Championships

1981

2nd British National Hill Climb Championships

1982

9th British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)

1st Commonwealth Games Road Race

1st Commonwealth Games team time trial

1st Hot Spots sprints Milk Race

3rd Overall Sealink International

1983

3rd Overall Circuit des Ardennes

3rd Milk Race

1st Six stages, Milk Race

1st Premier Calendar

1st Tour of the Peak

1st Lincoln Grand Prix

1984

10th Milk Race

1st Sealink International

1st British National Circuit Race Championships

1985

13th Milk Race

1st Sun Tour

1st Pursuit British National Track Championships

1986

2nd Milk Race

1st Two stages, Milk Race

1st Two stages, Sun Tour

47th overall Nissan Classic

4th Stage 1, Nissan Classic

1987

1st Milk Race

1st Five stages

1st Three stages Nissan Classic

11th Kellogg's Tour of Britain

3rd Amstel Gold Race

3rd Stage 12, Tour de France

1988

1st Tour of Britain

1st Two stages

1st Stage, Vuelta a España

1st Stage Vuelta a Aragón

2nd Nissan Classic

4th final stage, Tour de France

1989

1st Stage, Vuelta a España

1st Points classification, Vuelta a España

1st Two stages Semaine Catalan

1st Two stages Trofeo Castilla y Leon

1st Stage Tour of Galicia

2nd Tour of the Americas

1990

1st Two stages Tour of Cantabria

1st Two stages Volta a Catalunya

1st Tour of Britain

1st Stage, Tour of Britain

1st Stage, Vuelta Al Pais Vasco

1991

1st Two stages, Torres Vedras

1st Trofeo Masferrer

1992

1st Stage Tour of the Mining Valleys

1993

1st British National Road Race Championships

1st Redlands Classic

1st Stage, Redlands Classic

1st Tour of Bisbee

1st Stage, Tour of Bisbee

1st First Union Grand Prix

1994

1st Two stages Killington Stage Race

1st Overall Redlands Classic

1st First Union Grand Prix

1995

1st Two stages Killington Stage Race

1st stage Tour DuPont

1st stage Tour de Toona

1996

79th Olympic Games, Road race

1st Killington Stage Race

1st Manhattan Beach GP

1997

1st Jackson Criterium

2003

1st Havant International GP

3rd Premier Calendar

2004

1st 2 stages Girvan 3-Day

1st 2 stages FDB Milk Ras

1st Premier Calendar

2005

1st Stage FDB Insurance Ras

2006

1st UCI road masters world champion

1st British Elite Circuit Series Champion

2007

1st Shay Elliott Memorial Race

1st East Midlands International Cicle Classic

1st Newport Nocturne

References

1. ^ "50 Cycling Heroes Named in British Cycling's Hall of Fame". British Cycling. 2009-12-17. http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/sport/article/bc20091216-Hall-of-fame-fifty. 
2. ^ "Elliott sets new Etape du Dales record". cyclingweekly.com. 2010-05-17. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flatest%2F469450%2Felliott-sets-new-etape-du-dales-record.html. 
3. ^ "Junior National Series Winners". British Cycling. http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/roa/Junior_Nat_Series_WInners.asp. Retrieved 2008-12-18. ^{[dead link]}

Bibliography

• Sprinter, Malcolm Elliott with Jeff Connor, ISBN 0 7207 1939 9

External links

• Motorpoint Pro-Cycling Team
• Malcolm Elliott profile at Cycling Archives
• Tour de France results for Malcolm Elliott
• Manchester Wheelers Club
• Malcolm Elliott Results

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