Mark Cavendish

Mark Cavendish MBE

Cavendish at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full name	Mark Simon Cavendish
Nickname	Manx Missile, Cav
Born	(1985-05-21) 21 May 1985 (age 31) Douglas, Isle of Man
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb; 11 st)
Team information
Current team	Team Dimension Data
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
2004	Team Persil
Professional team(s)
2005–2006	Team Sparkasse
2006–2011	T-Mobile Team
2012	Team Sky
2013–2015	Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2016–	Team Dimension Data
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Points classification (2011) 30 individual stages (2008–2013, 2015, 2016) Giro d'Italia Points classification (2013) 15 individual stages (2008, 2009, 2011–2013) 2 TTT stages (2009, 2011) Vuelta a España Points classification (2010) 3 individual stages (2010) 1 TTT stage (2010) Stage races Ster ZLM Toer (2012) Tour of Qatar (2013, 2016) Dubai Tour (2015) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (2011) National Road Race Championships (2013) Milan–San Remo (2009) Scheldeprijs (2007, 2008, 2011) Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne (2012, 2015) London-Surrey Classic (2011)
Medal record Road bicycle racing Representing  Great Britain World Championships 2011 Copenhagen Road race 2016 Doha Road race Track cycling Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Omnium World Championships 2005 Los Angeles Madison 2008 Manchester Madison 2016 London Madison Representing  Isle of Man Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne Scratch

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Mark Simon Cavendish MBE (born 21 May 1985) is a British professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Dimension Data. As a track cyclist he specialises in the madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines and as a road racer he is a sprinter.

In his first years as an elite track rider, Cavendish won gold in the madison at the 2005 and 2008 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 not winning a medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics he did not compete on track until 2015, subsequently winning with Wiggins in 2016 a third world championship title in the madison, and individually a silver medal in the Omnium at the 2016 Summer Olympics.