Mark wins silver in the C1 Individual Time Trial!
Image – © Gareth Fuller/PA Wire Mark wins silver in the C1 Individual Time Trial! Mark Colbourne has added yet another Paralympic medal to his collection after winning silver in the C1 Individual Time Trial! He won his third medal of his first Paralympic Games after completing the 16km course in 25:29 minutes, but Michael Teuber of Germany picked up gold finishing with a time of 25:16 minutes. The Welshman can now add his new silver medal to... Read More
Mark Colbourne’s First Paralympic Gold Medal
Mark on the podium celebrating gold Mark Colbourne today set a new world record as he won his first ever Paralympic gold medal in the C1 Individual 3km Pursuit! The Welshman punched the air with delight as he smashed the world record he set in the qualifying heat this morning and proudly waved a GB flag in the air on his lap of honour. He beat China’s Li Zhang Yu with a time of 3:53:88 to follow the silver medal he won yesterday in the C1-2 1km... Read More
Mark Colbourne Breaks World Record
New World Record – Mark Colbourne ( GBR ) – Men’s C1 3km Individual Pursuit Qualifying © Christina Kelkel Mark Colbourne Breaks World Record and Qualifies for C1 Individual Pursuit Final! Mark Colbourne has broken the C1 3k Individual Pursuit world record with a blistering time of 3.53.970 and will battle for gold with Zhang Yu Li of China in the final this evening! Mark had a good clean start to the race and remained composed as... Read More
Mark Colbourne Wins Great Britain’s First Paralympic Medal
Para-Cycling Track at London 2012 Paralympic Games – Mark Colbourne 1k TT C1-2-3 © Christina Kelkel Mark Colbourne wins Great Britain’s first Paralympic medal as he takes Silver in the 1Km Time Trial on Day 1 of London Paralympic Games! Mark Colbourne has achieved what would have been thought impossible three years ago after breaking his back in a paragliding accident; winning a silver medal in the 1km Time Trial, setting a new... Read More
Hello!
Mark Colbourne and I have produced a video featuring the Para-cycling team. As myself, Mark and the rest of the Para-cycling team are unable to attend the Opening Ceremony tonight due to the cycling events starting tomorrow, we wanted to share a little video with you to say “Hello!” We shot, directed and edited the “Hello!” video as a thank you for the overwhelming support we’ve received from the British public, and it was a fantastic... Read More
Meet the Superhumans
Time to meet the Superhumans if you haven’t already they including Cycling Shorts very own Jody Cundy MBE. Channel 4 launched its biggest ever marketing campaign on Tuesday July 17 to promote coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games with a ‘roadblock’ premiere of its Meet the Superhumans film across 78 television channels. The 90 second long film is set to the awesome track, “Harder Than You Think” by hip hop legends,... Read More
The Final Push
The first week in July saw all the GB Para-cycling team members who had been selected for the 2012 London Paralympics, travel to and stay at the St Pierre & Country Club in Chepstow for the week, while we trained at the National Velodrome in Newport. This hotel will be our venue for our holding camp before the transition up to London one week before the games. The first week of my training on the track was a small shock to my system, having had... Read More
123 Days and Counting!
UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships Los Angeles, USA – ©Copyright Christina Kelkel With only 123 days to go until the London 2012 Paralympic Games, I decided to start writing a blog to keep you all in the loop of how things are going and I hope you will all enjoy reading my monthly updates. 2012 has already been quite a year for me having made my international track debut at the Track World Championships in Los Angeles in February. Looking... Read More
Para-Cycling World Championships – Day 2
Mark Colbourne - UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships Los Angeles, USA - ©Copyright Christina Kelkel Mark Colbourne Today saw Mark racing in the 1km Time Trial, after he managed to take his first ever Para-Cycling World Championship Gold in his first International track competition! As a track debutant, Mark had to go off as one of the first riders with 10 more riders to come after his heat. Motivated by yesterday’s success, Mark rode a very... Read More
UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships – Jody & Mark’s Progress
Jody chats to Jiří Ježek – Para-Cycling Track World Championships – ©Copyright Christina Kelkel Jody Cundy MBE After qualifying third in a time of 4:55.958 in the morning, Jody was facing Roberto Garcia Alcaide (ESP, 4:57.622) in the final for Bronze tonight. Motivated by his unlucky qualification run, Jody was off for a quick start and well ahead of his opponent after lap 2 already. Quickly closing in on Alcaide, Jody did not... Read More
