Márcio May (born 22 May 1972) is a Brazilian

road bicycle The term road bicycle is used to describe bicycles built for traveling at speed on paved roads. Some sources use the term to mean racing bicycle. Other sources specifically exclude racing bicycles from the definition, using the term to mean a ...

and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...

, who competed in three

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The ina ...

(1992, 1996 and 2004) for his native country. He won two bronze medals during his career at the

Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is hel ...

(1995 and 1999). May retired from professional cycling in January 2008. His last race was the Copa América de Ciclismo, in which he rode for the

Scott–Marcondes Cesar–São José dos Campos Team Scott–Marcondes Cesar–São José dos Campos () was a Brazilian UCI Continental road bicycle racing team, based on São José dos Campos. The team was created in 1993 by José Carlos Monteiro, who is the general team manager since its fo ...

team.

Major results

;1995 : 3rd Bronze medal (Americas)

Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

;1997 : 1st Overall Tour de Santa Catarina ;1998 : 1st Overall Tour de Santa Catarina ;1999 : 3rd Bronze medal (Americas)

Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

;2000 : 2nd Silver medal america

Time trial,

Pan American Road Championships The Pan American Road Championships are the continental cycling championships for road bicycle racing held annually for member nations of the Pan American Cycling Confederation. Riders competing in the Pan American Cycling Championships are sel ...

: 3rd Overall Tour de Santa Catarina ;2001 : 2nd

, National Road Championships ;2002 : 1st Stage 6

Vuelta Ciclista de Chile The Vuelta Ciclista de Chile is an annual Chilean elite men's professional road cycling stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be cov ...

: 2nd Overall

Tour do Rio Tour do Rio is a road cycling stage race held in Brazil between 2000 and 2015. The race was a 2.2 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies races according to a rating scale. ...

::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Overall Tour de Santa Catarina ::1st Prologue ;2003 : National Road Championships ::2nd

::3rd

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: 3rd Overall Tour de Santa Catarina ;2004 : 1st Overall

::1st Stage 2 ;2005 : 1st Overall Tour de Santa Catarina ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd

, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall

Volta Ciclística de Porto Alegre The Volta Ciclística de Porto Alegre was a multi-day road cycling race held annually from 1996 to 2006 around Porto Alegre, Brazil. It added to the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI calendar in 2004 as a 2.5 event, and as a 2.2 event on the UC ...

: 5th Overall Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de São Paulo ;2006 : 1st Overall Volta do Paraná ::1st Stage 1 : 9th Overall Tour de Santa Catarina ;2007 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Tour de Santa Catarina : 10th Overall Volta do Paraná

References

External links

Official website

Profile
1972 births Living people Brazilian male cyclists Brazilian road racing cyclists Brazilian track cyclists Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2003 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Brazil Vuelta Ciclista de Chile stage winners Sportspeople from Santa Catarina (state) Pan American Games medalists in cycling Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games 21st-century Brazilian people 20th-century Brazilian people {{Brazil-cycling-bio-stub