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About Mark Cavendish:

Mark Cavendish is surely the greatest road-race sprinter in cycling history. There have been some fine sprinters in the past, Sean Kelley, Rik Van Looy, Eddy Merckx, Mario Cipollini, Robbie McEwen, André Darrigade, Erik Zabel, Freddy Maertens, René Le Grevès, Charles Pelissier, but Mark Cavendish is cycling's greatest. He is, in the word of Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme "The greatest sprinter in the history of the Tour and of Cycling".

Cavendish, born on the Isle of Man, turned pro in 2005 and won eleven races that rookie year.

If you look at the list of his victories posted below, you will see that he came into his own in 2007 with several high-end wins. The next year he began winning
Grand Tour stages, including two in the Giro d'Italia and four in the Tour de France.

After 2016 race wins started coming less often and it was rumored that he would retire after the 2020 season because he could not get a team to hire him. He did find a place with the prestigious Deceuninck Quick-Step team, but he was paid the UCI's minimum salary of 40,000 Euros and had to bring his own sponsor to the team.

And then he began winning again starting in April with the 2021 Tour of Turkey where he won four stages and in 2022 he also won a few races, but it wasn't enough to satisfy Deceunink Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere who did not renew Cavendish's contract at the end of the 2022 season.

For 2023 Cavendish found a place on the B&B Hotels-KTM team, but the team quickly ran into financial problems and collapsed in December of 2022.

Cavendish found a spot on Alexander Vinokourov's Astana-Qazaqstan team. He rewarded the team with his seventeenth Giro d'Italia victory when he won the 21st stage.

He won his 35th Tour de France stage in 2024, making him the record holder with one more stage win than Eddy Merckx.

His final race was on November 10, 2024 when he won the Tour de France Singapore Criterium. That win gave him 165 career victories, second only to Eddy Merckx at 279 and two ahead of Mario Cipollini's 163.

Major victories & high placings:

  • 2005: Tour of Berlin Stage 5
  • 2006: Tour of Britain points classification; Tour de Berlin 2nd GC & stages 3b & 4
  • 2007: Scheldeprijs; Four Days of Dunkirk points classification plus stages 3 & 6; Danmark Rundt points classification plus stage 6; Eneco Tour Points classification plus stage 2; Volta a Catalunya stages 2 & 6
  • 2008: Scheldeprijs, Tour de France stages 5, 8, 12, 13; Giro d'Italia stages 4 & 13; Tour of Ireland stages 1, 2 & 3; Tour of Missouri Points classification plus stages 1, 2 & 6; The Days of De Panne stages 2 & 3a; Tour de Romandie Prologue, Ster Elektrotoer stage 5
  • 2009: Milano-Sanremo; Tour de France stages 2, 3, 10, 11, 19, & 21; Giro d'Italia stage 1, 9, 11 & 13; Tour of California Sprints classification plus stages 4 & 5; Three Days of De Panne Points classification plus stages 2 & 3a; Tour de Suisse stage 3 & 6; Tour of Missouri stages 1 & 2; Tirreno Adriatico stage 7; Tour of Ireland stage 2
  • 2010: Tour de France stages 5, 6, 11, 18, 20; Vuelta a España Points classification plus stages 1, 12, 13, 18; Volta a Catalunya stage 2; Tour de Romandie stage 2, Tour of California stage 1
  • 2011: World Road Race Championships; Scheldeprijs; London-Surrey Classic; Tour de France Points classification plus stages 5, 7, 11, 15, 21; Giro d'Italia stages 1, 10, 12; Tour of Britain stages 1 & 8b; Tour of Oman stage 6
  • 2012: Ster ZLM Toer; Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne; Tour de France stages 2, 18 & 20; Giro d'Italia stages 2, 5 & 13; Tour of Britain stages 3, 4 & 8; Tirreno-Adriatico stage 2; Denmark Rundt Stage 6; Tour of Qatar stages 3 & 5
  • 2013: British National Road Race Championships; Tour of Qatar GC & Points classifications plus stages 3, 4, 5 & 6; Giro d'Italia Points classification plus stages 1, 6, 12, 13 & 21; Tour de France stages 5 & 13; Tour of Britain stages 4, 7 & 8; Tour de San Luis stage 1
  • 2014: Tour of Turkey Points classification plus stages 1, 2, 4 & 8; Tour du Poitou-Charentes Points classification plus stages 1 & 2; Tour of California stages 1 & 8; Tirreno-Adriatico stages 1 & 6; Volta ao Algarve stage 5; Tour de Suisse stage 4
  • 2015: Dubai Tour GC & Points classifications, plus stages 1 & 4; Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne; Clasica de Almeria; Tour of California Points classification plus stages 1, 2, 5,& 8; Tour of Turkey Points classification plus stages 1, 2 & 7; Tour de France stage 7; Tour de San Luis stage 7
  • 2016: Tour of Qatar GC plus stage 1; Tour de France stages 1, 3, 6 & 14; Abu Dhabi Tour Points classification plus stages 2 & 4; Tour of Croatia stage 2, Tour of California stage 8
  • 2017:Abu Dhabi Tour Points classification plus stage 1
  • 2018: Dubai Tour stage 3
  • 2019 & 2020: No notable wins or high placings
  • 2021: Münsterland Giro; Tour de France Points classification plus stages 4, 6, 10 & 13; Tour of Turkey stages 2, 3, 4 & 8; Tour of Belgium stage 5
  • 2022: British National Road Race Championships; Milano-Torino; Giro d'Italia stage 3, UAE Tour stage 2, Tour of Oman stage 2
  • 2023: Giro d'Italia stage 21
  • 2024: Tour de France stage 5, Tour de Hongrie stage 2; Tour of Colombia stage 4, Tour de France Singapore Criterium

Professional Teams:

  • 2005 - 2006: Team Sparkasse
  • 2006 - 2011: T-Mobile
  • 2012: Team Sky
  • 2013 - 2015: Omega Pharma-Quick Step
  • 2016 - 2019: Dimension Data
  • 2020: Bahrain-McLaren
  • 2021 - 2022: Deceuninck-Quick-Step
  • 2023 - 2024: Astana Qazaqstan

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2010 Tirreno Adriatico stage 2, Bernhard Eisel leads Mark Cavendish

2010 Vuelta a España: Cavendish puts on the GC leader's Red Jersey after His HTC-Columbia team won the stage one team time trial.

2012 Tirreno-Adriatico stage 2

2013 Tour de France stage 10

2013 Tour de France stage 13, time trialing at Mont. St. Michel

2013 Tour de France stage 21.

2015 Tour de france stage 1

2015 Tour de France stage 2 on the podium with Bernard Hinault

2015 Tour of San Luis stage 7.

2015 Tirreno-Adriatico stage 6. A soggy day at the races.

2015 Tour de France stage 7. Cavendish looks well-pleased.


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Mark Cavendish wins stage 2 of the 2016 Tour of Abu Dhabi

2016: Before the start of stage 3 of the Tour of Abu Dhabi

Cavendish wins Abu Dhabi Tour stage four, run under lights.

Cavendish at the start of the 2016 Milano-Sanremo

Mark Cavendish signs in before the start of the second stage of 2016 Tirrenno-Adriatico

2016 Scheldeprijs, Cavendish is second to Marcel Kittel (on the right)

Before the 2016 Paris-Roubaix, Cavendish checked out the cobbles.

2016 Tour de France stage 1, the stage is Cavendish's.

Cavendish's reward for his stage win, the Yellow Jersey.

2016 Tour de France stage 6. Cavendish give his bike a serious throw to win the stage.

Cavendish in the green points jersey after stage 6.

Mark Cavendish wins stage 14 of the 2016 Tour de France

Cavendish on the podium after his Tour stage win.

2016 World Road Championships: Peter Sagan wins, much to Mark Cavendish's (on right) displeasure.

2021 Tour of Poland stage one. Cavendish about to sign in.

2021 Tour of Turkey stage 8.

2021 Tour de France stage 13


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Cavendish racing in the 2021 Ghent 6-Day

Cavendish wins the 2022 British Road Championships.

Mark Cavendish wins stage 21 of the 2023 Giro d'Italia

On the podium after stage 21 of the 2023 Giro d'Italia

Before the start of 2023 Tour de France stage 4.

Mark Cavendish signs in to stage 3 of the 2024 Tirreno-Adriatico

2024 Tour de France stage 5: Cavendish gets his 35th Tour stage win, more than any other race in Tour history.

 

2024 Tour de France stage 12.

2024 Tour de France stage 13.

Cavendish finshes his final Tour de France, 2024 Tour, stage 21

Cavendish wins the 2024 Milano-Torino

Cavendish finishes his career in a blaze of glory, winning the 2024 Tour de France Singapore Criterium. ASO photo