Craig MacLean

Craig MacLean
MBE
Craig MacLean (2019)
Personal information
Full nameCraig MacLean
Born (1971-07-31) 31 July 1971 (age 53)
Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, United Kingdom
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight87 kg (192 lb)[1]
Team information
DisciplineTrack
RoleRider
Amateur team
City of Edinburgh Racing Club
Professional team
2007–2008Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles[2]
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Team sprint
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Tandem B sprint
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Copenhagen Team sprint
Silver medal – second place 1999 Berlin Team sprint
Silver medal – second place 2000 Manchester Team sprint
Silver medal – second place 2006 Bordeaux Sprint
Silver medal – second place 2006 Bordeaux Team sprint
Silver medal – second place 2007 Palma de Mallorca Team sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Antwerp Team sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Stuttgart Team sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Melbourne Team sprint
Para-cycling World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Montichiari Tandem B sprint
Gold medal – first place 2011 Montichiari Tandem B kilo
Gold medal – first place 2012 Los Angeles Tandem B kilo
Gold medal – first place 2012 Los Angeles Tandem B sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Montichiari Tandem B sprint
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne Team sprint
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Tandem B kilo
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Tandem B sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Manchester Team sprint

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.

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.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Athlete > Craig MacLean". British Olympic Association. Archived from the original on 24 February 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  2. ^ "MacLean Joins Plowman Craven Evans". Cycling Weekly. 13 September 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  3. ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 25.