Mark O'Brien (cyclist)

Mark O'Brien

Mark O'Brien (2013)
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Date of birth	September 16, 1987
nation	Australia
discipline	Road / train
End of career	2016
Last updated: June 1, 2020

Mark O'Brien (born September 16, 1987 in Horsham ) is a retired Australian track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Mark O'Brien won the 2004 Oceania Championship team pursuit in the junior class. In 2005 he was second in the team pursuit and in Madison at the national junior track cycling championship . In the same year he also won the overall ranking of the Tour of the Souther Grampians. In 2007 O'Brien moved to the Australian Professional Continental Team Drapac Porsche . In his first season there he was second overall on the Tour of the Souther Grampians, and at the Herald Sun Tour , he finished second in the junior ranking. In 2009 he was third in the national road championship. In 2012 and 2016 he won the bronze medal of the Oceania Championships in road racing.

In 2016, Mark O'Brien retired as a contract athlete, but continued to compete in national races. In 2020, he finished tenth at the Australian Road Championship. Professionally he works as a cycling trainer ( as of 2020 ).

successes

2004

• Oceania Games Team Pursuit (Juniors) with Anthony Bennett , Todd Dawson and Gerard Murphy

2010

• one stage Jelajah Malaysia

2012

• Oceania Championship - Road Race

2016

• Oceania Championship - Road Race

Teams

• 2007 Drapac-Porsche Development Program
• 2008 Drapac-Porsche Development Program
• 2009 Drapac Porsche Cycling
• 2010 LeTua Cycling Team (until May 15)
• 2011 SP Tableware
• 2012 Team Budget Forklifts
• 2013 Team Raleigh
• 2014 Avanti Racing Team
• 2015 Avanti Racing Team
• 2016 Avanti Racing Team

Web links

Commons : Mark O'Brien  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Mark O'Brien in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Mark O'Brien in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mark O'Brien - FTP Training. In: ftptraining.com. February 18, 2016, accessed June 1, 2020 .