Mark Downey (born 3 July 1996) is an Irish road and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

, who currently rides for French amateur team Côtes d'Armor–Marie Morin–Véranda Rideau. As a junior he competed at the

2014 UCI Road World Championships The 2014 UCI Road World Championships took place in Ponferrada, Spain, from 21 to 28 September 2014. The cycling championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 81st UCI Road World Championships and the s ...

in the Men's junior time trial and also at the

2015 UCI Road World Championships The 2015 UCI Road World Championships took place in Richmond, Virginia, United States from September 19–27, 2015. It was the 88th Road World Championships. Peter Sagan won the men's road race and Lizzie Armitstead won the women's road race. ...

in the Men's junior time trial. On the track he competed at the

2015 UEC European Track Championships The 2015 UEC European Track Championships was the sixth edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen, Switzerland, between 14 and 18 October. The Event was organised by ...

in the points race and team pursuit. He won the gold medal at the 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Round 2 in Apeldoorn in the points race. He also won the third round of the World Cup points race held in Cali, Colombia following that event he picked up a silver in the madison with his teammate Felix English. Concluding his 2017 World Cup campaign Downey won the madison in LA round 4 and was overall series winner in the points race.

Major results

Road

;2015 : 5th Time trial, National Road Championships ;2016 : 1st Stage 6 Tour Nivernais Morvan ;2017 : 9th Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships ;2018 : 3rd Road race,

National Championships A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best team, indi ...

: 3rd Overall

Volta ao Alentejo The Volta ao Alentejo (Portuguese; en, Tour of Alentejo) is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Alentejo, Portugal. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a seri ...

::1st

Young rider classification : 4th Road race,

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

: 4th

Clássica da Arrábida Clássica da Arrábida is a one-day road cycling race held in Portugal annually since 2017. It is part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cy ...

Track

;2016 : 1st Points race – Apeldoorn, UCI World Cup : 2nd Silver medal europe

Points race, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2017 : UCI World Cup ::1st Points race, Cali ::1st Madison (with

Felix English Felix English (born 11 October 1992) is a professional cyclist from Brighton who rides for Ireland. English rides on the road and on the track. As a junior, he won five British national titles until he decided in 2010 to represent Ireland, the ...

), Los Angeles ::2nd Madison (with

), Cali : 3rd Bronze medal europe

Points race, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2019 : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Points race A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men between 1984–2008 and for women 1996–2008. Starting in 2012, the points race is one of the omnium even ...

UCI World Championships The UCI world championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winne ...

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* * * * * * 1996 births Living people Male cyclists from Northern Ireland Irish track cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) European Games competitors for Ireland Cyclists at the 2019 European Games Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Northern Ireland Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Ireland {{Ireland-cycling-bio-stub