Mark Rendell
New Zealand cyclist
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Born |
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1969-06-06
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6 June 1969
(age
54)
Auckland , New Zealand |
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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 .
Career
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]
Major results
- 1994
- 1st Commonwealth Games road race
- 1st Stage 10 Colonial Classic
- 1996
- 10th Overall Tour de Langkawi
References
- ↑ "Cycling: Lillywhite outwitted by Postle" . The Independent . 2 June 1993 . Retrieved 20 September 2022 .
- ↑ "Games Time: Rotorua's Rendell predicts cycling medals" . NZ Herald . Retrieved 20 September 2022 .
- ↑ "Peerless Gate rates as supreme Kiwi Commonwealth Games" . 14 August 2022 . Retrieved 20 September 2022 – via PressReader.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games: Roulston praises team after road race silver" . Otago Daily Times Online News . 29 October 2010 . Retrieved 20 September 2022 .
- ↑ "Ngā Raukura i te Ao - Hall of Fame" . www.rbhs.school.nz . Retrieved 20 September 2022 .
- ↑ "Mark Rendell" . www.cyclingarchives.com . Retrieved 20 September 2022 .
- ↑ "Mark Rendell" . www.procyclingstats.com . Retrieved 20 September 2022 .
External links
- Mark Rendell at Cycling Archives
- Mark Rendell at ProCyclingStats
- Mark Rendell at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Mark Rendell at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)