Daniel McLay

Daniel McLay

Personal information
Full name Daniel McLay
Born 3 January 1992
Wellington, New Zealand
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 12 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Team information
Current team Bretagne-Séché Environnement
Discipline Road and track
Role Rider
Rider type Endurance
Amateur team(s)
2008 Leicestershire Road Club
2009 Univega.co.uk
2011–2014 Omega Pharma-Lotto Davo
Professional team(s)
2015– Bretagne-Séché Environnement
Infobox last updated on
1 February 2015

Daniel McLay (born 3 January 1992) is a British racing cyclist, competing in road, track and cyclo-cross. 2015 is the first year that he is a professional, racing for French pro-continental and 2014 Tour de France wildcard outfit Bretagne-Séché Environnement. Primarily a sprinter, McLay is also competent in the Flemish racing scene and has a particular affinity to the Northern Classics.

Biography

Born in Wellington, New Zealand, McLay moved to the UK as a young infant and was brought up in Leicester. McLay began cycling competitively at the age of six. Following his success as under 16 rider at the British National Track Championships, he represented Great Britain at the 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival,[1] competing in the criterium and road race events.[2] He says [3] that he was not very good at sports that require coordination as a school-boy and thus this fuelled his desire to continue competing in cycling.

McLay was selected to represent Britain at the Junior European Cyclo-cross Championships in 2008, where he finished last.[4]

In 2009, McLay became a member of British Cycling's Olympic Academy.[5] McLay went on to win the bronze medal in the Madison at the European Track Championships with partner Sam Harrison. He also represented Great Britain at the 2009 Junior UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.

In 2010 he became World Champion in the Junior World Madison Track Championships (with Simon Yates))

In 2014 he won a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir, commonly coined as The Tour of the Future. He also came seventh in Tour of Britain stages, a strong showing given that sprinters such as Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel, Mark Renshaw and Adam Blyth were also competing. But, he says, seventh was not a representation of what he could have achieved.

He signed for the Bretagne-Séché Environnement professional continental team for the 2015 season.[6] He won his first professional victory in Stage 3 of the 2015 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo.[7] In the first UCI World Tour race of his career, the 2015 Paris–Nice, McLay came eighth in stage 5.[8]

Palmarès

Track

Cyclo-cross

2007
1st Round 1, National Junior Trophy Series
2008
3rd National Junior Championships

Road

2007
1st Snaaskerke Niewelingen Race (Belgium) – Under-16
1st Stage 3, Assen Youth Tour (Netherlands) – Under-16
2008
1st Assen Youth Tour
1st Stage 4
1st Wim Hendriks (Belgium)
1st Stage 4 Junior Tour of Wales
2010
2nd Junior Paris–Roubaix
6th Overall Driedaagse van Axel
1st Stage 1
2011
1st GP Waregem
4th Schaal Indekeu Hulshout
6th Dorpenomloop Rucphen
2012
1st Drie Zustersteden
1st GP José Dubois
2nd Kernen Omloop Echt-Susteren
2013
2nd Dorpenomloop Rucphen
5th Ster van Zwolle
6th Overall Paris–Arras Tour
2014
Tour de Normandie
1st Points classification
1st Stage 3
1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Avenir
2nd Dorpenomloop Rucphen
3rd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships[9]
4th Overall Paris–Arras Tour
1st Stage 3[10]
5th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
7th Paris–Tours Espoirs[11]
10th Beaumont Trophy
2015
1st Stage 3, La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

References

  1. "Daniel McLay". 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
  2. "Cyclist Rides to Golden Glory". 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival. 2007-07-25.
  3. "Daniel McLay". 2014 Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2015-01-18.
  4. Bart Hazen (2008-01-11). "European Championships Cyclocross — Hoogstraten, Junior Men". Daily Peloton.
  5. "Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Biographies". British Cycling. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
  6. "Cycling: Dan McLay shows his sprinting speed and opens his winning account in Africa". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  7. "Paris - Nice 2015 - Stage 5". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  8. Allen, Eddie (27 June 2014). "Wiggins, Pooley and Davies celebrate British time-trial championship wins". British Cycling. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  9. "Dan McLay continues to impress on continent". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  10. "McLay rejoint Bretagne-Séché" [McLay joins Bretagne-Séché]. L'Équipe (in French). 13 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.

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