DOWNEY Mark

CYCLING TRACK

World Championships

Year	Location	Points Race	Madison
2020	Berlin, GER	18	11
2019	Pruszkow, POL	3	11
2018	Apeldoorn, NED	11	9
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	10	6

European Games

Year	Location	Madison
2019	Minsk, BLR	8

European Championships

Year	Location	Points Race	Madison
2019	Apeldoorn, NED	10	14
2018	Glasgow, GBR	9	11
2017	Berlin, GER	13	7

World Cup (Ranking)

Rank	Event	Year
1	Points Race	2016/2017
26	Points Race	2017/2018

World Cup

Year	Location	Points Race	Madison
2019/2020	Milton, ON, CAN	-	7
2019/2020	Brisbane, QLD, AUS	-	10
2019/2020	Cambridge, NZL	-	8
2019/2020	Hong Kong, CHN	-	7
2019/2020	Glasgow, GBR	-	12
2018/2019	Hong Kong, CHN	-	10
2018/2019	London, GBR	-	11
2018/2019	Berlin, GER	-	9
2017/2018	Pruszkow, POL	8	5
2016/2017	Los Angeles, CA, USA	-	1
2016/2017	Cali, COL	1	2
2016/2017	Apeldoorn, NED	1	7

Legend
IP - Individual Pursuit, TP - Team Pursuit, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

CYCLING ROAD

European Games

Year	Location	Road Race
2019	Minsk, BLR	99

UCI Road World Championships (Under 23)

Year	Location	Road Race
2017	Bergen, NOR	9

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, OTL - Outside the Time Limit

Athlete

English

Martyn Irvine [national]

His father Seamus Downey represented Ireland in road cycling at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. His brother Sean won track cycling bronze while representing Northern Ireland in the men's team pursuit at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. (SportsDeskOnline, 29 Jul 2021; cyclingireland.ie, 01 Jan 2019; irishtimes.com, 17 Jul 2021)

He has also represented Ireland in road cycling, competing at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. He also competed for Northern Ireland in road cycling at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (SportsDeskOnline, 29 Jul 2021; Instagram profile, 10 Jun 2021)

He came from a family of cycling enthusiasts. "I was always around bikes and thinking about bikes and stuff, so that's how I sort of fell into the sport." (cyclingireland.ie, 01 Jan 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 04 Jul 2021)

Earning selection for Ireland for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 17 Jun 2021)