Mark Rendell

{{Short description|New Zealand cyclist (born 1969)}}

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{{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2018}}

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| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand

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{{MedalSport|Men's road bicycle racing}}

{{MedalComp|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalGold|1994 Victoria|Road race}}

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Mark Rendell (born 6 June 1969) is a cyclist from New Zealand.

Career

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.{{cite web |title=Cycling: Lillywhite outwitted by Postle |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycling-lillywhite-outwitted-by-postle-1489433.html |website=The Independent |access-date=20 September 2022 |language=en |date=2 June 1993}}

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.{{cite web |title=Games Time: Rotorua's Rendell predicts cycling medals |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/games-time-rotoruas-rendell-predicts-cycling-medals/R54SSO675F3Z6PLTOJUTVLDLZA/ |website=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=20 September 2022 |language=en-NZ}} Until the 2022 Commonwealth Games Rendall was the last kiwi to earn a gold medal in road cycling at the games.{{cite web |title=Peerless Gate rates as supreme Kiwi Commonwealth Games |url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/sunday-star-times/20220814/282677576071781 |via=PressReader |access-date=20 September 2022 |language=en |date=14 August 2022}}{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Games: Roulston praises team after road race silver |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/commonwealth-games/commonwealth-games-roulston-praises-team-after-road-race-silver |website=Otago Daily Times |access-date=20 September 2022 |language=en |date=29 October 2010}} 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.{{cite web |title=Ngā Raukura i te Ao - Hall of Fame |url=https://www.rbhs.school.nz/our-school/school-identity/nga-raukura-i-te-ao--hall-of-fame/ |website=www.rbhs.school.nz |access-date=20 September 2022 |language=en}}

Major results

Sources{{cite web |title=Mark Rendell |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=20354 |website=www.cyclingarchives.com |access-date=20 September 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Mark Rendell |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/mark-rendell |website=www.procyclingstats.com |access-date=20 September 2022}}

;1994

: 1st File:Gold medal blank.svg Commonwealth Games road race

: 1st Stage 10 Colonial Classic

;1996

: 10th Overall Tour de Langkawi

References

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