Mark Downey

Mark Downey
	Mark Downey (2017)
To person
Date of birth	3rd July 1996
nation	Ireland
discipline	Road / rail (endurance)
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2019 - points race Track cycling world cup 2017 Los Angeles - two-man team event 2016 Cali - points race 2016 Apeldoorn - points race
	Last updated: April 3, 2020

Mark Downey (born July 3, 1996 in Dromore ) is an Irish cyclist from Northern Ireland who competes on track and road .

Athletic career

As a boy, Mark Downey went on a tandem bike ride with his 1984 Olympian father, Seamus Downey . His brother Sean Patrick was also active as a cyclist until 2015.

Downey contested his first race at the age of eight. At eleven he took part in his first Irish championships and won gold in the individual time trial and in the criterion . In the following years he won other national titles in different age groups. In 2011 he represented Ireland at the European Summer Youth Olympic Festival in Trabzon .

In 2014, Downey was runner-up in the junior European championship in points , and in 2016 was runner-up in the U23 European championship in the same discipline.

In November 2016, Downey achieved his first major success in the elite when he won the points race in the second round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn . In 2017 he won the fourth round of the World Cup together with Felix English in a two-man team . At the road world championships in the same year in Bergen , Norway , he finished ninth in the U23 road race. In 2018 he won the junior competition of the Volta ao Alentejo . At the UCI Track World Championships in 2019 , he won bronze in the points race.