Mark Cavendish

Train Europe in 2005, European champion in the points race ( U23 )   2005 world champion in Madison ( with Rob Hayles )   2006 Gold Medal Commonwealth Games in Scratch   2008 World Champion in Madison ( with Bradley Wiggins ) road 15 stages Giro d' Italia (2008-2013) 25 stages of the Tour de France (2008-2013) 3 stages Vuelta a España ( 2010)   World Champion in the road race 2011 Milan - Sanremo ( 2009)   Scoring Vuelta a España 2010   Points Classification Tour de France 2011   Scoring Giro d'Italia 2013

Mark Cavendish, MBE (born 21 May 1985 in Douglas, Isle of Man) is a British racing cyclist from the politically autonomous Isle of Man. He is currently one of the world's best sprinters.

Career

Cavendish worked after leaving school for two years in a bank, trying to earn enough money to be able to then concentrate on cycling can at this time.

His first cycling union had success Cavendish at the 2004 British Championships when he was together with Ed Clancy Second in Madison. A year later (2005) he finished third in the scratch. He also became European champion in the points race in the same year. In the UCI Track World Championships 2005 in Los Angeles, he won together with Rob Hayles the gold medal in Madison. With the World Cup races in Sydney and Manchester he made it twice each on the podium. In the scratch race of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he won another significant victory.

Since 2005, Cavendish is active on the road. On the initiative of the head of T- Mobile Development program Heiko Salzwedel he went with Ed Clancy for the German Continental Team Sparkasse since 2005. In 2005 he won the British Circuit Road Race Championship in Otley. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games was Cavendish seventh in the road race.

During the 2006 season he got the T- Mobile Team, a trainee license and denied that there was the Tour of Britain where he stage was second twice and won the points classification.

2007 Cavendish received a professional contract with T -Mobile and won right away in April 2007 as the first Briton ever in one of the oldest Belgian cycling race, the Scheldt Price ( 1.HC ) before his great idol Robbie McEwen. In May 2007, Cavendish won the 3rd and 6th stage and the points classification of the race " 4 Jours de Dunkerque " ( 2.HC ).

On 19 June 2007 Cavendish signed along with the Frenchman Sandy Casar was the first professional cyclist, a commitment to the World Cycling Federation, which requires the driver, with a detection of doping in addition to the usual barriers in addition to pay a fine in the amount of one year's salary. The signing of this commitment was a prerequisite for a start in the Tour de France 2007.

2008 Cavendish could already build on the successes of the previous year in the spring. So he could decide Three Days of De Panne 2008 for two stages of the tour. Shortly thereafter, he won one more time the Grand Prix Scheldeprijs in a bunch sprint ahead of local hero Tom Boonen, who cheered too early in the faith of certain victory, so that Cavendish could still shoot past him on the finish line. In the 2008 Tour de France Cavendish was the dominant sprinter and won four stages, but increased before the first Alpine stage due to exhaustion and also in terms of its scheduled launch at the Olympic Games on the web from.

Also in the 2009 Tour de France Cavendish was with six stage wins the dominant sprinter, but remained in scoring for the green jersey behind Norwegian Thor Hushovd.

In the 2010 season he won five stages of the Tour de France. Despite these successes, he failed again, the local score for to decide which was awarded to Alessandro Petacchi. In the fall, he started at the Vuelta a España and won next three stages and the team time trial for the first time in his career, the points jersey.

The 2011 season began rather sluggishly for Cavendish. After a stage victory at the Tour of Oman and winning the Grand Prix Scheldeprijs, he won two stages and the team time trial of the Giro d' Italia. After a long dry spell, the node bursting with him at the Tour de France. He won five stages, including the prestigious final stage in Paris, and at the fourth attempt the green jersey for the best point of the grand tour. In the road race at the UCI Road World Championships 2011 in Copenhagen, he won ahead of Matthew Goss and André Greipel and was thus only in the second Briton after Tom Simpson in 1965 world champion.

After his team HTC -Highroad had dissolved at the end of the 2011 season due to lack of sponsors, Mark Cavendish changed for the 2012 season for Team Sky Procycling. After only one year, however, he joined the new season of Team Sky for Omega Pharma- Quick-Step Cycling Team. He had decided, since it was often his team members in the mass sprints not endorse and is not Sprinterzug a brief break, because you, as for example in the Tour de France, focused on the overall standings with Briton Bradley Wiggins. With his new team, he hoped to see more support and got this also. So he could decide the score for, among other things at the Giro d' Italia 2013.

At the Tour de France in 2013, he again won two stages. It came on July 10, 2013 during the individual time trial of Avranches Mont -Saint -Michel to an unattractive incident when Cavendish was pelted by a viewer with a urine bag. This was probably a reaction to the previous stage, at the Cavendish on the home straight Dutchman Tom Veelers brought down.

Others

Mark Cavendish is married to Peta Todd since October 2013. You have a daughter.

Achievements - Train ( excerpt)

  • Europe European Champion - Points race ( U23 )
  • World Champion - Madison ( with Rob Hayles )
  • British Champion - Team Pursuit ( with Ed Clancy, Steve Cummings and Geraint Thomas )
  • Gold Medal Commonwealth Games - Scratch
  • World Champion - Madison ( with Bradley Wiggins )
  • British Champion - Madison ( with Peter Kennaugh )

Achievements - Road (excerpt)

  • A stage of the Tour de Berlin
  • A stage Thuringia Tour
  • Two stages and points classification Tour de Berlin
  • A stage Course de la Solidarité Olympique
  • Grand Prix Scheldeprijs
  • Two stages and Scoring Four Days of Dunkirk
  • Two-stage Tour of Catalonia
  • A stage Ster Elektrotoer
  • A stage and points classification Tour of Denmark
  • A stage and point scoring Eneco Tour
  • Prologue and a stage Tour of Britain
  • A stage Circuit Franco -Belge
  • Two stages Three Days of De Panne
  • Grand Prix Scheldeprijs
  • Prologue Tour de Romandie
  • Two stages of the Giro d' Italia
  • A stage Ster Elektrotoer
  • Four stages of the Tour de France
  • Three stages Tour of Ireland
  • Three stages and Sprint Classification Tour of Missouri
  • Two stages of the Tour of Qatar
  • Two stages of Tour of California
  • A stage of Tirreno- Adriatico
  • Milan - Sanremo
  • Two stages Three Days of De Panne
  • Team time trial Tour de Romandie
  • Team time trial and three stages of the Giro d' Italia
  • Two stages of the Tour de Suisse
  • Six stages of the Tour de France
  • Sparkassen Giro Bochum
  • A stage in the Tour of Ireland
  • Two stages of the Tour of Missouri
  • A stage Tour of Catalonia
  • A stage of Tour de Romandie
  • A stage in the Tour of California
  • Five stages of the Tour de France
  • Three stages, the team time trial and points classification Vuelta a España
  • A stage in the Tour of Oman
  • Grand Prix Scheldeprijs
  • Two stages and team time trial Giro d' Italia
  • Five stages and points classification Tour de France
  • London Surrey Cycle Classic
  • Two stages of the Tour of Britain
  • World Champion in the road race
  • Two stages of the Tour of Qatar
  • Kuurne -Brussels- Kuurne
  • A stage of Tirreno- Adriatico
  • Three stages of the Giro d' Italia
  • Ster ZLM Toer Appreciation
  • Three stages of the Tour de France
  • A stage Post Danmark Rundt
  • Three stages of the Tour of Britain
  • A stage of the Tour de San Luis
  • Ranking, Scoring and four stages of the Tour of Qatar
  • Tirreno Adriatico team time trial -
  • A stage of Three Days of De Panne
  • Five stages and points classification Giro d' Italia
  • British Champion - Road Race
  • Two stages of the Tour de France
  • A stage Post Danmark Rundt
  • Three stages of the Tour of Britain
  • Volta ao Algarve stage a
  • Team time trial and a stage Tirreno- Adriatico

Grand Tour rankings

Legend:

  • DNF: did not finish, a stage driver has not ended

Honors

In 2011, Mark Cavendish by the British broadcaster BBC was voted Britain's Sportsman of the Year.

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