Marc Ryan

This article is about the cyclist Marc Ryan; on the actor, see Mark Ryan .

Marc Ryan

To person
Full name	Marc James Ryan
Date of birth	October 14, 1982
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Street
Most important successes
Olympic games 2012 - team pursuit 2008 - team pursuit 2015 World Champion - Team Pursuit
Last updated: April 17, 2016

Marc James Ryan (born October 14, 1982 in Timaru ) is a former New Zealand track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

On the track, Marc Ryan was very successful in the team pursuit . With the New Zealand team he won his first World Cup in Sydney in 2003 . In 2005 he was successful there again, and he won in the team pursuit the run of the Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester in 2004/05 and the Oceania Championship . A year later he won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games .

In 2009 and 2011, the New Zealand track four repeated his success with Ryan at the Oceania Championships. At the World Railroad Championships in Melbourne in 2012 , he and his teammates took third place in the team pursuit. In 2014 Marc Ryan won bronze in the single and team pursuit at both the World Track Championships and the Commonwealth Games . At the Track World Championships in 2015 , he was only used in the preliminary run, but won the gold medal in the team pursuit with his teammates.

Ryan was also successful at the Olympic Games: in 2008 and 2012 he won bronze in the team pursuit.

On the road, Marc Ryan won a stage in the Tour of Southland in 2005 . A year later he became New Zealand champion in the individual time trial and in the criterion . In 2007 he won a stage each in the Tour of Wellington and the Tour of Southland, in which he was also overall runner-up.

In April 2016, Ryan announced his retirement from active cycling.

Successes - rail

2003

• Track Cycling World Cup Sydney - Team Pursuit

2005

• Track Cycling World Cup Sydney - Team Pursuit
• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit
• Track Cycling World Cup Manchester - Team Pursuit

2006

• Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Hayden Godfrey , Timothy Gudsell and Peter Latham )
• New Zealand Champion - Team Pursuit
• New Zealand Champion - Madison

2008

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Hayden Roulston , Jesse Sergent and Westley Gough )

2009

• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Westley Gough and Peter Latham )

2010

• Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Westley Gough and Jesse Sergent )
• World Cup Cali - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Westley Gough and Jesse Sergent )

2011

• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Aaron Gate and Jesse Sergent )
• World Cup Cali - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Aaron Gate and Jesse Sergent )

2012

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Aaron Gate , Jesse Sergent and Westley Gough )
• Track World Championships - Team Pursuit (with Aaron Gate , Sam Bewley and Westley Gough )

2013

• New Zealand Champion - Team Pursuit (with Shane Archbold , Dylan Kennett and Andy Van der Heyden )

2014

• Track World Championships - Individual Pursuit
• Track World Championships - Team Pursuit (with Aaron Gate , Pieter Bulling and Dylan Kennett )
• Commonwealth Games - one's pursuit
• Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Pieter Bulling , Dylan Kennett , Aaron Gate and Shane Archbold )

2015

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Pieter Bulling , Alex Frame , Regan Gough and Dylan Kennett )

Successes - road

2005

• one stage Tour of Southland

2006

• New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial
• New Zealand Champion - Criterion

2007

• one stage Tour of Wellington
• one stage Tour of Southland

2008

• Team Time Trial Tour of Southland

2009

• Team Time Trial Tour of Southland

Teams

• 2011 Marco Polo Cycling Team
• 2012 Marco Polo Cycling Donckers Koffie
• 2014 Scotty Browns-Vision Systems (until April 30th)
• 2014 Cibel (from May 1st to July 1st)

Web links

• Marc Ryan in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Marc Ryan in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Marc Ryan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ryan retires from track cycling. In: stuff.co.nz. Retrieved April 16, 2016 .