18 Facts About Mark Renshaw

Mark Renshaw's results included 3rd in the time trial, 4th in the Individual Pursuit, 5th in the Flying 200m Time Trial, 3rd in the Sprint, 1st in the Teams Pursuit ; and 1st in the Olympic Sprint.

Mark Renshaw was then selected to compete for Australia in the Junior World Track Championships, where he became a World Champion, alongside Jobie Dajka and Ben Kersten, in the Olympic Sprint.

Mark Renshaw was 1st in the Olympic Sprint, 1st in the Time Trial, 2nd in the Individual Pursuit, 1st in the Team Pursuit, 4th in the Keirin and 1st in the Scratch Race.

Again Mark Renshaw was chosen to compete in the Junior World Championships.

Mark Renshaw was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games.

Mark Renshaw was later part of the Australian senior World Championship-winning Team Pursuit team.

Mark Renshaw returned to the track in 2004, and in the World Championships competed in the Madison, Points Race and Team Pursuit.

Mark Renshaw crashed out in the Points race, and finished 4th in the Madison.

Mark Renshaw still competed in the Points Race, where he placed 6th.

Mark Renshaw showed strong early season form, taking out the Geelong Bay Series Criterium for the second consecutive year.

Mark Renshaw went on to lead the general classification, until the penultimate Willunga Hill stage, where his lack of climbing ability meant he lost considerable time and the race lead to future teammate Andre Greipel.

This, coincidentally, roughly matched a delayed start to Cavendish's season, and meant that Mark Renshaw was peaking later for his goal of the World Championships late in the year.

Mark Renshaw signed with the Dutch Rabobank squad before the start of the 2012 season, taking the chance to race for himself rather than continuing to lead-out Cavendish.

The mass sprint was an extremely close affair with Mark Renshaw taking the win over fellow Australian Matthew Goss.

Mark Renshaw withdrew from the Tour de France on Stage 12 in the mountains with approximately 72 kilometres to go, after succumbing to injuries from four separate falls earlier in the Tour.

Mark Renshaw spent the 2015 season working as Cavendish's lead-out man, with his best personal result a third-place finish at the Clasica de Almeria, which Cavendish won.

Mark Renshaw has Dutch grandparents who emigrated to Australia after the Second World War.

In November 2009, Mark Renshaw announced his engagement to longtime partner Kristina Harris.