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Martyn Irvine (born 6 June 1985) is a
He signed with the UCI Asia based for the 2011 season.
After the 2012 London World Cup event, he had 470 ranking points. He qualified for the Omnium event at the London Olympics where he finished 13th.
Overall Tour of the North
: National Road Championships
::2nd Time trial
::4th Road race
: 3rd Senior race, National Criterium Championships
: 5th East Midlands International CiCLE Classic
;2010
: 1st 
Senior race, National Criterium Championships
: 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
;2011
: 1st Senior race, National Criterium Championships
: 1st Stage 7 
Mountains classification
;2012
: National Road Championships
::2nd Time trial
::4th Road race
;2013
: 2nd Senior race, National Criterium Championships
;2014
: 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
;2015
: 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
: 7th Overall
1 km time trial
::1st Individual pursuit
: 3rd 
1 km time trial
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Scratch
;2012
: 
Scratch
::2nd Individual pursuit
;2013
: 
Scratch
::2nd 
Points race, Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
: 3rd 
Scratch,
Northern Ireland
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-born former cyclist, who competed professionally between 2008 and 2017 for the Pezula Racing, Planet X, , , and teams, and rode at the 2012 Olympic Games. He was also a directeur sportif
A ''directeur sportif'' (French for sporting director, although the original French term is often used in English-language media; plural ''directeurs sportifs'') is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is se ...
for the team.
Irvine is a 7-time Irish
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national track and road cycling champion cyclist, who represented the Irish National track team in the Omnium event at the World Cup Classics, and was world champion in the scratch race
A scratch race is a track cycling race in which all riders start together and the objective is simply to be first over the finish line after a certain number of laps.
UCI regulations specify that a scratch race should be held over 15 km for ...
in 2013
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. He was UCI World Ranked 17th at the end of the inaugural 2010/11 Omnium season, with 315 ranking points.
Career
He signed with the UCI Asia based for the 2011 season.
After the 2012 London World Cup event, he had 470 ranking points. He qualified for the Omnium event at the London Olympics where he finished 13th.
UnitedHealthcare (2013–2014)
In November 2012, Irvine signed a contract to ride with the team for the 2013 season. In February 2013 he won gold at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in theScratch Race
A scratch race is a track cycling race in which all riders start together and the objective is simply to be first over the finish line after a certain number of laps.
UCI regulations specify that a scratch race should be held over 15 km for ...
, only an hour after winning a silver medal in the Individual Pursuit
The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track.
It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...
. Prior to Irvine, no Irish male rider had won a World Championship medal in 116 years. As a result, he was named as BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year for 2013.
In February 2014, Irvine won a silver medal in the scratch race at the 2014 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 2014 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2014. They took place in Cali, Colombia from 26 February to 2 March 2014 in the Velódromo Alcides Nieto Patiño.
Schedule
This was the schedule of ...
.
Madison Genesis (2015)
In November 2014 announced that Irvine would join them for the 2015 season.Retirement
After failing to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics inRio de Janeiro
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, in January 2016 Irvine announced his retirement from competition.
Return with Aqua Blue Sport (2017)
In October 2016, he announced his comeback to professional cycling, signing with newly created IrishUCI Professional Continental
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the ...
team for the 2017 season. He retired for the second time at the end of the season, joining the team's backroom staff.
Major results
Road
;2005 : 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2007 : National Under-23 Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::3rd Time trial ;2009 : 1st Overall Tour of the North
: National Road Championships
::2nd Time trial
::4th Road race
: 3rd Senior race, National Criterium Championships
: 5th East Midlands International CiCLE Classic
;2010
: 1st Senior race, National Criterium Championships
: 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
;2011
: 1st Senior race, National Criterium Championships
: 1st Stage 7 An Post Rás
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: 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
: 8th Lincoln Grand Prix
: 9th Overall Tour of Ulster
::1st Mountains classification
;2012
: National Road Championships
::2nd Time trial
::4th Road race
;2013
: 2nd Senior race, National Criterium Championships
;2014
: 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
;2015
: 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
: 7th Overall An Post Rás
An, AN, aN, or an may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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* Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy
* AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey
* Anime North, a Canadian a ...
Track
;2010 : National Championships ::1st 1 km time trial
::1st Individual pursuit
: 3rd Team pursuit
The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome.
Race format
Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
, Commonwealth Games
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;2011
: National Championships
::1st 1 km time trial
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Scratch
;2012
: 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
The 2012–2013 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the 2012–2013 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, presented by Samsung for sponsorship reasons.) is a multi race tournament over a track cycling. It was the twenty-first series of the UCI Track ...
, Glasgow
::2nd Scratch
::2nd Individual pursuit
;2013
: UCI Track World Championships
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::1st Scratch
::2nd Individual pursuit
The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track.
It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...
: 1st Points race, 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
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, Manchester
: 1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
: 3rd Omnium
An omnium (from Latin '' Omni'': of all, belonging to all) is a multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. In recent years, road racing has also adopted the term to describe multi-day races that fe ...
, UEC European Track Championships
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;2014
: 2nd Scratch, UCI Track World Championships
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Major championship results
References
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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Irvine, Martyn 1985 births Living people Cyclists from Northern Ireland UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Ireland Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from County Down Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Irish track cyclists