Craig MacLean

Craig MacLean MBE (Grantown-on-Spey, July 31, 1971) is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a silver medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics. MacLean returned to the sport as a sighted guide in the Paralympics, piloting Neil Fachie to two gold medals in the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, and Anthony Kappes to a gold medal in the 2012 Paralympic Games. MacLean is only the second athlete, after Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres, ever to win medals at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Craig MacLean
MBE
Craig MacLean (2019)
Personal information
Full nameCraig MacLean
Born (1971-07-31) 31 July 1971
Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, United Kingdom
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight87 kg (192 lb)
Team information
DisciplineTrack
RoleRider
Amateur team
City of Edinburgh Racing Club
Professional team
2007–2008Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2000 SydneyTeam sprint
Paralympic Games
2012 LondonTandem B sprint
World Championships
2002 CopenhagenTeam sprint
1999 BerlinTeam sprint
2000 ManchesterTeam sprint
2006 BordeauxSprint
2006 BordeauxTeam sprint
2007 Palma de MallorcaTeam sprint
2001 AntwerpTeam sprint
2003 StuttgartTeam sprint
2004 MelbourneTeam sprint
Para-cycling World Championships
2011 MontichiariTandem B sprint
2011 MontichiariTandem B kilo
2012 Los AngelesTandem B kilo
2012 Los AngelesTandem B sprint
2016 MontichiariTandem B sprint
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
2006 MelbourneTeam sprint
2014 GlasgowTandem B kilo
2014 GlasgowTandem B sprint
2002 ManchesterTeam sprint

MacLean has also won medals in five UCI Track World Championships in the team Sprint, Silver in 1999, Silver in 2000, Bronze in 2001, Gold in 2002, Bronze in 2003, and Bronze in 2004. MacLean also won a bronze medal for Scotland in the Team sprint at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, followed by a gold medal in the event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia. As a sighted guide to Neil Fachie he won a further two gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in, and for, his native Scotland. In the Commonwealth Games, certain para-cycling events are integrated as full medal events into the program.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.

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