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Personal information | |
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Full name | Mark Scanlon |
Born | Sligo, Republic of Ireland | 10 October 1980
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Retired |
Amateur teams | |
1992–1995 | Éire Óg CC |
1996–1998 | Sligo CC |
1999 | Rabobank Beloften |
2000 | CC Étupes |
2001 | VC Nantes 44 |
2001–2002 | Vélo-Club La Pomme Marseille |
2002 | AG2R Prévoyance (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2003–2006 | AG2R Prévoyance |
2007 | Toyota–United |
Major wins | |
National Elite Road Race Champion (2002, 2003) World Junior Road Race Champion (1998) |
Mark Scanlon (born 10 October 1980 in Cranmore, Sligo) is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist, who was the first Irishman to ride in the Tour de France since 1993. He also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Scanlon came to prominence when he won the junior race at the 1998 world road race championship, on his 18th birthday.
After winning the world championships, Scanlon signed for the Rabobank cycling team's development squad. He failed to break through because of injuries and he left in 2000. He joined CC Etupes in France and rode lesser French races. Linda McCartney Racing Team offered him a contract in 2001 but folded before he joined them. Scanlon continued to ride in France with VC Nantes 44 and then VC La Pomme Marseille. In 2002 he won the Irish road championship.
Scanlon signed for AG2R Prévoyance for 2003. He won a stage of that year's Tour of Denmark, leading the race for three days. He won the Irish championship again.
In 2004 Scanlon became the first Irishman in the Tour de France since Stephen Roche in 1993. He also represented Ireland in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the road race on the opening day of the Games. Scanlon was injured for much of 2005 and 2006 but rode the 2006 Giro d'Italia.
He left the AG2R Prévoyance team at the end of 2006, disillusioned with the amount of racing required in the ProTour. At the start of 2007, he rode for the Toyota-United team in the USA. In 2007 there were reports he had retired. [1] [2] Scanlon denied them, saying he would like to captain a third division Irish continental team [3] but for the time being, he had taken a "step back from professional cycling." [2]
Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | DNF |
Tour de France | 89 | — | — |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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