2008 News Archive
2007 News Archive
MacLean signs for Plowman Craven Evans Cycle
10th September 2007
Top British track sprinter Craig MacLean is the latest signing for the Hertfordshire based team Plowman Craven Evans Cycles. The world, Olympic and Commonwealth games track medallist joins the team with less than twelve months to go before the Beijing Olympics and will be working hard to ensure qualification and selection for the British team.
"It's nice to feel part of a team," said MacLean: "I have not been part of a racing team since I was with the City of Edinburgh and that's going back a few years. The coming year is going to be important and quite intense. I imagine that the majority of my duties with be with the GB team and concerning selection issues for Beijing but there will be plenty of opportunities to pull on the Plowman Craven Evans Cycles top in the national championships and the Revolution track series in the UK."
Britain is currently blessed with multiple world class sprinters and MacLean will have to work hard to secure his Olympic team place. "The qualification process will start from the World Cups in November and run all the way to the World Championships in Manchester in March," continued the 36-year-old Scot: "All of your results will count towards your individual ranking and qualification. Then there are the issues with team selection where we have seven sprinters going for three places. It is going to be a tough year."
Craig MacLean Biography
From: Grantown-on-Spey, Moray (Scotland)
Lives now: in Manchester
D.O.B: 31/07/1971
Events: Sprint (Track)
GB Team: Olympic Podium Programme
Personal Bests:
200 metres (10.096; 71.315) Moscow, 2005
Kilometre, 1.01.530 (British record) 2003
RESULTS PROFILE
OLYMPICS
2004 Athens
7th Kilo 1.02.369
5th Team Sprint (7th in qualifying)
2000 Sydney
2nd Team Sprint (Chris Hoy & Jason Queally)
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
2007 Majorca
2nd, Team Sprint 43.832 (fastest qualifiers)
4th, Men's Sprint
2006 Bordeaux)
2nd, Mens Sprint
2nd, Mens Team Sprint
2005 Los Angeles
8th Mens Sprint
2004 Melbourne
11th Kilometre 1.02.743
3rd Team Sprint: 3rd
2003
3rd Team Sprint
2002
1st Team Sprint
2001
3rd Team Sprint
2000
2nd Team Sprint
1999
2nd Team Sprint
COMMONWEALTH GAMES
2006 Melbourne
1st, Team Sprint, (Scotland)
4th, Kilometre, (Scotland)
2002 Manchester
3rd Team Sprint (Scotland)
UCI WORLD TRACK CUPS
2006/07
Manchester
1st, Team Sprint (Chris Hoy & Ross Edgar)
7th, Mens Keirin
Sydney
1st, Mens Team Sprint (Hoy & Edgar)
1st, Mens Sprint
Moscow
1st, Mens Team Sprint
3rd, Mens Sprint
2005/06
Manchester (Dec)
1st Team Sprint (World record for first lap, 17.549)
7th Mens Keirin
2nd Japanese Keirin
Moscow (Nov)
2nd Mens Sprint
2nd Team Sprint
Manchester (Jan)
1st Team Sprint
2004
Moscow (Feb)
2nd Team Sprint
9th Sprint
Manchester (April)
1st Kilometre
1st Team Sprint
Sydney (May)
1st Sprint
1st Team Sprint
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
1999
1st Team Sprint, Italy
BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS
2005
1st Sprint
2003
1st Kilometre (British Record at the time)
2001
1st Kilometre
1999
1st Kilometre
1998
1st Kilometre
1997
1st Kilometre
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