Mark Stewart (cyclist)
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| Mark Stewart (2016) | |
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| Date of birth | August 15, 1995 |
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 United Kingdom
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| discipline | Train / street |
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| Last updated: January 27, 2020 | |
Mark Stewart (born August 15, 1995 in Dundee ) is a British cyclist .
Mark Stewart comes from an athletic family: his father competed in Ironman competitions for Scotland , his mother in mountain running competitions , and his brother Kevin works as a short-term trainer in track cycling . Stewart himself began swimming and triathlon at the age of five , but decided to focus on cycling at the age of ten. In 2014 he was accepted into the British Cycling's Olympic Academy Program .
Stewart's first international success came at the track cycling World Cup in Cali in the team pursuit with bronze, together with Germain Burton , Matthew Gibson and Christopher Latham . At the end of the same year, at the World Cup in Cambridge , he won the scratch race (outside the WC classification) and together with Germain Burton won the bronze medal in the two-man team .
In 2017 Mark Stewart became the U23 European champion in the singles pursuit. The following year he won bronze in the points race at the World Railroad Championships and won in this discipline at the Commonwealth Games .
Miscellaneous
Since Stewart's victory at the Commonwealth Games in 2018, efforts have been made in his hometown of Dundee to name the Caird Park Velodrome there after him.
successes
- 2014
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British champion - points race
- 2015
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British Champions - Team Pursuit (with Oliver Wood , Germain Burton and Jake Kelly )
- 2016
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Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow - Team Pursuit (with Andrew Tennant , Oliver Wood and Kian Emadi ) -
European Championship - Team Pursuit (with Matthew Bostock , Oliver Wood and Kian Emadi ) -
European Championship (U23) - Scratch -
European Championship (U23) - Team Pursuit (with Matthew Bostock , Joe Holt and Oliver Wood )
- 2017
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European Champion (U23) - Omnium, single pursuit
- 2018
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World Championship - points race
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Commonwealth Games - Points race
- 2019
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Track Cycling World Cup in Minsk - Scratch
Teams
Web links
- Mark Stewart in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Mark Stewart in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Mark Stewart. In: British Cycling. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campaign to name velodrome after Dundee gold medal hero. In: thecourier.co.uk. November 6, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Stewart, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dundee |