Malcolm Elliott (born 1 July 1961) is a former English professional

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, whose professional career has lasted from 1984 to 1997 when he retired and from 2003 up to 2011 when he made his comeback in British domestic racing. Known as a sprinter, his career includes three stages and the

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, two gold medals in the

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, and winning the amateur

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and its professional version, the Kellogg's Tour. He rode and finished the

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in 1987 and 1988. Elliott also competed at the

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in 1980 and 1996.

Early life and amateur career

Elliott was brought up in the

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area of Sheffield. He joined Rutland

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in Sheffield at 15 where he was selected for the British team for the world junior championship in

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in 1979. In 1980 riding for Rutland CC, Elliott won the

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, beating Jeff Williams by one fifth of a second. He also raced for the UV Aube cycling club in

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, France, for part of 1980 season to gain experience of racing on the continent before being selected for the British

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at the

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in Moscow. He,

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and Tony Doyle finished seventh. Elliott's breakthrough came at the

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where he first took gold in the

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and then again in the 184 kilometre road race by outsprinting

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, Steve Lawrence and Russell Harrington. 1983 was Elliott's final year as an amateur and he took six stages of the

and was also third overall in the Circuit des Ardennes before turning professional with

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in 1984. Further domestic success followed in 1984 and 1985 before switching to the ANC–Halfords Cycling Team for the 1987 season, alongside Graham Jones,

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and Joey McLoughlin.

Professional career

ANC–Halfords raced on the continent as well as in Britain. Elliott finished third in the 1987

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. The team received an invitation to the

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with Elliott finishing 94th overall and third on the stage into

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. In 1988 Elliott joined the Fagor team, led by

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. Elliott took his first stage in the Vuelta a España that year and another two in 1989, by which time he had switched to the Spanish Teka team riding alongside fellow British rider

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. He rode in Europe until the end of 1992 when he signed for the American team,

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–LA Sheriffs. Elliott had many wins for Chevrolet, winning the First Union Grand Prix in 1993 and 1994 and the Redlands Classic in 1993 and 1994, and two stage wins in the Tour DuPont in 1993 and 1995. In 1996 he was then selected for the

road race, but finished a disappointing seventy ninth. The race was won by

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. In 1997 he moved to Comptel–Colorado Cyclist but the team hit financial trouble. That led Elliott to retire at the end of 1997 aged 36.

Comeback

Elliott returned at the start of 2003 at 41. Riding as an individual for the Pinarello-Assos squad (set up by his former manager at ANC–Halfords, Phil Griffiths), he won in the Havant International GP and stages in the Irish Milk Ras. In 2004, he won the season long

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, and the National Elite Circuit Series. For 2006 Elliott signed for Plowman Craven team and again won the National Elite Circuit Series. On 24 August 2006 in St. Johann, Austria, he became

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road masters world champion. In 2007 he won the UCI 1.2 ranked International CiCle Classic, and the Shay Elliott Memorial, the Irish one-day classic. In 2009 he was inducted into the

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. For the 2010 season, Elliott raced with the newly launched Motorpoint Pro-Cycling Team. The ten-strong team, based in Stone in Staffordshire, saw Elliott managed by Keith Lambert and the team run by Phil Griffiths. The team competed in such high-profile races as the Tour of Britain and ' UK Tour Series' – the city centre-based cycling race series broadcast on TV, in which Elliott won the Durham round and the Motorpoint team took overall honours. On 16 May 2010 he set the record for completing the Etape du Dales sportive in 5 hours and 43 minutes. He left the roster after the 2011 season, but remained with the team as a sporting director.

Doping

In 1992 Elliott failed a dope test on stages 3 and 5 of the Tour of Andalucia, testing positive for

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, an anabolic steroid. As the two tests were so close this was treated as a single infraction and he was stripped of the win on stage 3.

Major results

;1979 : 3rd National Junior Road Race Series ;1980 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

National Hill Climb Championships ;1981 : 2nd National Hill Climb Championships ;1982 :

::1st Road race ::1st Team time trial : 3rd Overall Sealink International Grand Prix ;1983 : 1st

: 1st

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: 1st Tour of the Peak : 3rd Overall Circuit des Ardennes : 3rd

::1st Six stages ;1984 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

National Criterium Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Sealink International Grand Prix : 10th Overall

;1985 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Individual pursuit,

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:13th

: 1st

Overall

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annuall ...

::1st Stages 1, 2, 12 & 16 ;1986 : 2nd Overall

::1st Two stages : 3rd Overall

::1st Stages 6 & 16 ;1987 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Five stages : Nissan Classic ::1st Stages 1, 4b & 5 : 1st Stage 4

: 3rd

;1988 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Prologue & Stage 1 : 1st Stage 17

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: 1st Stage 3

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: 1st Stage 13

: 2nd Overall Nissan Classic ;1989 :

::1st

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::1st Stages 3b & 11 :

Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme The Catalan Cycling Week (''Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme'' in Catalan language, Catalan) was a stage race, multi-stage road bicycle race held in Catalonia, Spain. Held annually from 1963 until 2005, it was run as a 2.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour ...

::1st Prologue & Stages 1 & 5 :

Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, it has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ...

::1st Stages 3 & 5 : 1st Prologue

: 1st Stage 2

Tour of Galicia The Tour of Galicia (; ) is an annual cycling race held in Galicia, Spain. It was first held in 1933 and was held a further five times between 1934 and 1984. The tour did not take place from the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, until ...

: 1st Stage 4

Vuelta a Burgos Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos (province), Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In ...

: 2nd Tour of the Americas ;1990 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

::1st Stages 1 & 3 :

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::1st Stage 1 & 4a : 1st Stage 1

Tour of the Basque Country The Tour of the Basque Country (Officially: ''Itzulia Basque Country'') is an annual road cycling stage race held in the Spanish Basque Country in April. It is one of the races that make up the UCI World Tour calendar. As the Basque Country is ...

: 1st Stage 1

;1991 : 1st

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Troféu Joaquim Agostinho The Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras – Troféu Joaquim Agostinho is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Torres Vedras, Portugal. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Cont ...

::1st Stages 3a & 6 : 6th Overall

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;1992 : 1st Stage 4

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: 1st Stage 5

Volta ao Alentejo The Volta ao Alentejo ( Portuguese; ) is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Alentejo, Portugal. Since 2010, it has been organised as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle ...

: 2nd Overall

: 3rd

Clásica de Sabiñánigo Clásica de Sabiñánigo was a road bicycle race held annually in Aragon, Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, s ...

: 6th

;1993 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Redlands Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is the longest continuous running invitational, professional cycling stage race in American bike racing, located in Redlands, California, United States. The race began in 1985 after the 1984 Summer Olympic Games were h ...

::1st Stage : 1st Overall Tour of Bisbee ::1st Stage : 1st Stage 6

Tour DuPont The Tour DuPont was a cycling stage race in the United States held annually between 1989 and 1996, initially called the Tour de Trump in the first two years. It was intended to become a North American cycling event similar in format and prestig ...

: 1st First Union Grand Prix ;1994 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: Killington Stage Race ::1st Two stages : 1st First Union Grand Prix ;1995 : Killington Stage Race ::1st Two stages : 1st Stage 1

: 1st Stage

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;1996 : 1st Killington Stage Race : 1st Manhattan Beach GP ;1997 : 1st Jackson Criterium ;2003 : 1st Havant International GP : 3rd

;2004 : 1st

: Girvan 3-Day ::1st 2 stages : 5th Overall

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::1st Stages 5 & 8 ;2005 : 1st

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: 2nd Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 4 ;2006 : 1st UCI road masters world champion : 1st British Elite Circuit Series Champion ;2007 : 1st

Shay Elliott Memorial Race The Shay Elliott Memorial race is a one-day road cycling race held in spring in Ireland. It is run in honour of Ireland's first professional cyclist, Seamus Shay Elliott and organised by Bray Wheelers. The race was previously known as the ''Ro ...

: 1st

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: 1st Newport Nocturne ;2008 : 1st Circuit de Stone : 3rd

: 5th Rogaland Grand Prix : 5th Grand Prix of Wales

References

Bibliography

*''Sprinter'', Malcolm Elliott with Jeff Connor,

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Elliott, Malcolm 1961 births Living people Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Doping cases in cycling Olympic cyclists for Great Britain Cyclists from Sheffield British cycling road race champions Directeur sportifs British Vuelta a España stage winners Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Cyclists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games People from Wadsley Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists in cycling