Craig MacLean

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Craig MacLean Road cycling
Craig MacLean (2019)
Craig MacLean (2019)
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Date of birth July 31, 1971
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Railway (short-term) / paracycling
Most important successes
Olympic games
2000 silver - sprint
UCI track world championships
2002 World Champion - team sprint
Commonwealth Games
2006 gold - team sprint
UCI Paracycling World Track Championships
2011, 2012 World Champion - Sprint, time trial
Last updated: April 8, 2017

Craig MacLean (born July 31, 1971 in Grantown-on-Spey ) is a Scottish track cyclist , paracycling pilot and cycling trainer.

Athletic career

Craig MacLean rode BMX as a teenager , but did not get into competitive cycling on the track until the age of 24. During his studies he attended races as a spectator in the local cycling track "Meadowbank Stadium", joined a cycling club and became interested in track cycling.

MacLean quickly became the British top performer in the team sprint , although initially - in the era before the great success of the popular Chris Hoy - it was not as important as it is today in Great Britain. In this discipline in particular, MacLean was able to achieve numerous titles and podium places in the course of his career. At the Track World Championships in Berlin in 1999, MacLean was team sprint vice world champion (with Hoy and Jason Queally ).

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the British team won silver with MacLean, Chris Hoy and Jason Queally. The following year, the team (with Jamie Staff instead of Queally) took first place at the 2001 World Railroad Championships in Copenhagen; In 2002 it became world champion with the same line-up. At the 2004 Olympic Games , MacLean was handicapped by a protracted illness and could not start in the sprint , he finished seventh in the 1000 m time trial and fifth in the team sprint, where he only played the first lap (with Chris Hoy , Jamie Staff and Jason Queally ).

In 2006, the Scottish team in the line-up MacLean, Ross Edgar and Hoy was first in the team sprint at the Commonwealth Games . Most recently, MacLean was two-time British runner-up in sprint and keirin in 2008 . This year he was already working as a trainer; so he looked after Victoria Pendleton for 18 months after the Olympic Games in Athens .

Craig MacLean took a break from competitive sport at international level due to persistent back complaints, but started as a tandem pilot at the 2012 Paralympics in London and won the gold medal in the tandem sprint together with the visually impaired Anthony Kappes . At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in his native Glasgow, he and the visually impaired Neil Fachie won two gold medals in the tandem, in the sprint and in the time trial.

Professional

Craig MacLean has been working as a trainer at the World Cycling Center in Aigle since 2018 .

Outside of sport

Before his career as a competitive sport, Craig MacLens graduated from Edinburgh with a degree in musical instrument making . From 2014 he played in a band called The Fraudsters ( The scammers ).

In 2007 the documentary "Standing Start" was shot about MacLean, which was presented at the "Edinburgh Film Festival". His portrait can also be found in the book Heroes, Villains and Velodromes: Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution by Richard Moore (2008)

In a 2008 interview, Craig MacLean reported that he suffered from bulimia early in his career as a competitive athlete .

In 2009 MacLean was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame . A sports center is named after him in his Scottish hometown of Grantown-on-Spey.

successes

Train (elite)

1998
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British champion - sprint, 1000 meter time trial
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007

Train (Paracycling)

2011
2012
2014
2016
2016

Web links

Commons : Craig MacLean  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BBC.co.uk: "Craig MacLean wins World Championship gold 2002" accessed on February 6, 2010 (English)
  2. ↑ veloresults.co.uk: "Craig MacLean - World Championship Silver Medalist" accessed September 6, 2010 (English)
  3. ^ Richard Moore: Heroes, Villains & Velodromes , Harper & Collins 2008, pp. 174ff.
  4. ^ A b Ed Hood: Craig Maclean - Moving from Racing to Coaching, with Guitars! In: - VeloVeritas. March 31, 2017, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Craig MacLean. (No longer available online.) In: Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on April 7, 2017 ; Retrieved April 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thecgf.com
  6. ^ UCI World Cycling Center: Argentinian former athlete coaching in Switzerland. UCI, June 29, 2018, accessed August 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ BBC.co.uk: "Cyclist describes bulimia battle" accessed on February 6, 2010 (English)
personal data
SURNAME MacLean, Craig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Grantown-on-Spey