Malcolm Elliott

Malcolm Elliott (born 1 July 1961) is a former English professional cyclist, 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 points classification in the Vuelta a España, two gold medals in the Commonwealth Games, and winning the amateur Milk Race and its professional version, the Kellogg's Tour. He rode and finished the Tour de France in 1987 and 1988. Elliott also competed at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1996.

Early life and amateur career Elliott was brought up in the Wadsley area of Sheffield. He joined Rutland Cycling Club in Sheffield at 15 where he was selected for the British team for the world junior championship in Argentina in 1979. In 1980 riding for Rutland CC, Elliott won the British National Hill Climb Championships, beating Jeff Williams by one fifth of a second. He also raced for the UV Aube cycling club in Troyes, France, for part of 1980 season to gain experience of racing on the continent before being selected for the British team pursuit at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He, Sean Yates and Tony Doyle finished seventh.

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 nandrolone, 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

1981 2nd National Hill Climb Championships 1982 Commonwealth Games

3rd Overall Sealink International Grand Prix 1983 1st Premier Calendar 1st Lincoln Grand Prix 1st Tour of the Peak 3rd Overall Circuit des Ardennes 3rd Milk Race 1st Six stages 1984

10th Overall Milk Race 1985

13th Milk Race

1st Stages 1, 2, 12 & 16 1986 2nd Overall Milk Race 1st Two stages 3rd Overall Herald Sun Tour 1st Stages 6 & 16 1987

1st Five stages Nissan Classic 1st Stages 1, 4b & 5 1st Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour 3rd Amstel Gold Race 1988

1st Prologue & Stage 1 1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Aragón 1st Stage 13 Herald Sun Tour 2nd Overall Nissan Classic 1989 Vuelta a España

1st Stages 3b & 11 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 1st Prologue & Stages 1 & 5 Vuelta a Castilla y León 1st Stages 3 & 5 1st Prologue Tour of Britain 1st Stage 2 Tour of Galicia 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Burgos 2nd Tour of the Americas 1990

Volta a Catalunya 1st Stages 1 & 3 Vuelta a Cantabria 1st Stage 1 & 4a 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 1 Tour of Britain 1991 1st Trofeo Masferrer Troféu Joaquim Agostinho 1st Stages 3a & 6 6th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 1992 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a los Valles Mineros 1st Stage 5 Volta ao Alentejo 2nd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León 3rd Clásica de Sabiñánigo 6th Trofeo Masferrer 1993

1st Stage 1st Overall Tour of Bisbee 1st Stage 1st Stage 6 Tour DuPont 1st First Union Grand Prix 1994

Killington Stage Race 1st Two stages 1st First Union Grand Prix 1995 Killington Stage Race 1st Two stages 1st Stage 1 Tour DuPont 1st Stage Tour de Toona 1996 1st Killington Stage Race 1st Manhattan Beach GP 1997 1st Jackson Criterium 2003 1st Havant International GP 3rd Premier Calendar 2004 1st Premier Calendar Girvan 3-Day 1st 2 stages 5th Overall Rás Tailteann 1st Stages 5 & 8 2005 1st Beaumont Trophy 2nd Overall Rás Tailteann

1st Stage 4 2006 1st UCI road masters world champion 1st British Elite Circuit Series Champion 2007 1st Shay Elliott Memorial Race 1st East Midlands International Cicle Classic 1st Newport Nocturne 2008 1st Circuit de Stone 3rd East Midlands International Cicle Classic 5th Rogaland Grand Prix 5th Grand Prix of Wales