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Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 6 June 1969|||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||
Disciplines | Road | |||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
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Mark Rendell (born 6 June 1969) is a cyclist from New Zealand.
In 1993 during the third stage at the Milk race Rendall was in a breakaway which made it to the finish line where he was beaten by Matt Postle by a slim margin of two seconds. [1] At the 1994 Commonwealth Games at Victoria he won a gold medal in the road race and a bronze medal in the team time trial. [2] Until the 2022 Commonwealth Games Rendall was the last kiwi to earn a gold medal in road cycling at the games. [3] [4] As a former student of Rotorua Boys' High School after Rendall won his gold medal he was inducted into the Rotorua Boys' hall of fame. [5]
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