Mark Cavendish
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"I don't consider myself lucky to be a professional. I'm a pro because I worked for it. I'm not a pro because I was lucky, but I'm lucky to be where I am." "It's an unbelievable sense of achievement when you cross the line first, knowing all the hard work your team and yourself have put into the race, and everything leading up to it, has all been worthwhile. " "I want to keep winning - big, small, long, short, road, track, hard, easy - it doesn't matter, as long as the team or I are first across the finish line. I just love racing my bike! "
- Date of Birth: May 21, 1985
- Hometown: Isle of Man, UK
- Other Sponsors: Team High Road
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Career Highlights:
- Voted "Rookie of the year" 2007 by Cycling Weekly
- Winner points jersey Tour of Britain 2006; stage 2nd (2 times), stage 3rd Tour of Britain 2006
- Winner Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen 2007
- 2 x stage wins Tour of Catalonia 2007
- 2 x stage wins, sprints jersey and points jersey Tour of Britain 2007
- Two stage wins Giro d'Italia, 2008
- 1st place - Prologue Tour De Romandie, 2008
- 1st place Schelderpijs, 2008
- Two stage wins Three Days of De Panne, 2008
- 1st Place - Team pursuit - Track World Championships
- 1st place British Madison Championship , 2008
- 18 victories in 2008
- 2x stage winner Tour of California 2009
- 1st place Milan -San Remo, 2009
- 3 stages - Giro d'Italia - 2009
- 1st stage at the Tour of Qatar
- 2009: 1st Stage 2 Tour de France
- 2009: 1st Champs-Elysees Tour de France
Bio
Mark Cavendish, a Brit from Isle of Man, also know as Manx Missile, is a professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Team Columbia-HTC. What you see is what you get with Cavendish – his fiery, sometimes confrontational, approach is what makes him a special rider. Originally a track cyclist in the madison, points race, and scratch race, he has also competed on the road since 2006. He is a double Madison World Champion and Commonwealth Games gold medallist on the track. As a road cyclist, he has risen to prominence as a sprinter. Cavendish is rarely out of the limelight or headlines for long – it is not in his nature, indeed it is what makes him the world class athlete that he is.
He achieved eleven wins in his first professional season, equaling the record held by Alessandro Petacchi. In the 2008 Tour de France he won four stages, a then unprecedented achievement for a British cyclist an then he surpassed this feat by winning six stages in 2009. He has since been described as the fastest sprinter in the world. He continued his wins in 2009 by taking the Spring classic, Milan-Sanremo. Cavendish started racing informally at 12, as a mountain-bike rider. He lives in Manchester and Tuscany, Italy.
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