Mark Rendell
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| Born | 6 June 1969 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 1994
- 1st
Commonwealth Games road race - 1st Stage 10 Colonial Classic
- 1996
- 10th Overall Tour de Langkawi
References
[edit]- ^ "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
[edit]- Mark Rendell at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Mark Rendell at ProCyclingStats
- Mark Rendell at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Mark Rendell at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
Categories:
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- Cyclists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- New Zealand male cyclists
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- 1969 births
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- People educated at Rotorua Boys' High School
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen