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Mark Cavendish
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British professional road racing cyclist
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Mark Simon Cavendish is a British sport cyclist and cycling sprinter, born on 21 May 1985 in Douglas, Isle of Man, UK. He has competed in the Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Cavendish has been a member of sports teams including T-Mobile, HTC-Highroad, Nutrixxion-Abus, and Ineos Grenadiers. He is also known by the nickname "Manx Missile."
Cavendish won stages 4, 6, 10, and 13 of the 2021 Tour de France. He received the award of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His spouse is Peta Todd. He speaks English and has an official website.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Believe
- Tour de Force
- How to Win the World's Greatest Road Race
- At speed
- My journey to Tour de France record-breaker
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Douglas, Isle of Man, UK
Sir Mark Simon Cavendish KBE (born 21 May 1985) is a Manx professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana Qazaqstan Team. As a track cyclist he specialises in the madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines; as a road racer he is a sprinter. He is widely considered one of the greatest road sprinters of all time, and in 2021 was called "the greatest sprinter…
Known for
- Mark Cavendish: Never Enough — Self2023
- Patrick Lefevere. Godfather van de koers — Self2023
- A League Of Their Own: European Road Trip — Self2019
- Chasing Legends — Himself2010
- Road Cycling World Championships 2011 — Himself
- 525 : The Unstoppable Eddy Merckx
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 32
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Cavendish">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,877x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,083x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 40,222x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,702x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,414x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 2004
- Team Persil
- 2012
- Team Sky
- 2020
- Bahrain–McLaren
- Full name
- Mark Simon Cavendish
- Nickname
- Manx Missile
- Born
- ( 1985-05-21 ) 21 May 1985 (age 41) , Douglas, Isle of Man
- Height
- 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Weight
- 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
- Disciplines
- Road Track
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- Sprinter
- 2005 2006
- Team Sparkasse
- 2006 2011
- T-Mobile Team
- 2013 2015
- Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
- 2016 2019
- Team Dimension Data
- 2021 2022
- Deceuninck–Quick-Step
- 2023 2024
- Astana Qazaqstan Team
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Douglas
- Spouse
- Peta Todd
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Member of team
- XDS Astana Team
- Position played
- cycling sprinter
- Mass
- 70
- Official website
- www.cvndsh.com
- Image
- Mark Cavendish TDF2012 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 175
Show 10 more facts
- Commons category
- Mark Cavendish
- date of birth
- 1985-05-21
- nickname
- Manx Missile
- birth name
- Mark Simon Cavendish
- social media followers
- 1352523
- competition won
- 2021 Tour de France
- name in native language
- Mark Cavendish
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- end of work period
- 2024-11-10
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Mark Simon Cavendish (born 21 May 1985) is a Manx retired professional cyclist. As a track cyclist he specialised in the madison, points race and scratch race disciplines; as a road racer he was a sprinter. He is widely considered one of the greatest road sprinters of all time.
In his first years as an elite track rider, Cavendish won gold in the madison at the 2005 and 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships riding for Great Britain, with Rob Hayles and Bradley Wiggins respectively, and in the scratch race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games riding for Isle of Man. After failing to win a medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics he did not compete on track again until 2015, subsequently winning his third UCI Track Cycling World Championships title with Wiggins in the madison in 2016, and an individual silver medal in the omnium at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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