Craig MacLean

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Craig Maclean racing for Scotland during the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Medal record
Competitor for  Great Britain
Track cycling
Olympic Games
Silver	2000 Sydney	Team sprint

Craig MacLean (born 31 July 1971 in Grantown-on-Spey) is a Scottish track cyclist who has 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. He currently rides for the British Plowman Craven team.

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.

MacLean started off as second man in the Great Britain Team Sprint until switching to lead man in 2002. He broke the GB kilometre record at the Olympic Trials in 2004.

In 2007 MacLean had an experimental documentary made about him called Standing Start made by BAFTA winner Adrian McDowall and Finlay Pretsell. The film documents MacLean in his build up to the World Cup team sprint win in 2007. The film has screened world wide and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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