Having spent the season with Irish Continental level team EvoPro Racing, Mark Downey is headed back to France having signed for a division one squad there.
The former Banbridge Cycling Club rider will compete in the colours of DN1 team Côtes d’Armor-Marie Morin-Véranda Rideau next season.
He has previously ridden in France for, VC Toucy in 2016 and CC Etupes in 2017. During 2018 he competed with Team Wiggins before moving on to EvoPro Racing for 2019.
Downey is still aged just 23 years but has a wealth of
experience under his belt, and excellent results, at home and abroad.
He has been most successful on the track but was also 9th in the U23 road race at the Worlds two years ago.
Last year Mark Downey finished in the top three of stages at the Volta ao Alentejo when riding for Team Wiggins, also taking 3rd overall in that race.
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He was 2nd
in the stage at the Tour de l'Avenir and took a bronze medal in the elite
national road race championships.
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On the track, Downey really broke through in 2016,
first claiming a medal at U23 level in the European Track
Championships in July of that year.
He then followed that up with a gold medal in the points race at the UCI World Cup in
Apeldoorn, Holland, in November, 2016.
And then another points race gold and a Madison silver medal followed at the UCI World Cup in Cali,
Colombia, February, 2017.
And the following month, March of 2017, Downey scored an incredible hat
trick; taking his third gold medal in as many UCI World Cups in
the Madison with partner Felix English.
Back in February of this year he claimed bronze in the points race at the
elite World Track Championships in Poland.
In his early days, back in 2014, he also took a scratch race silver medal at junior level.
Downey is currently a key member of the Irish track team as it seeks to qualify places at the Tokyo Olympics, with the Madison his target race.
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