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{{short description|British cyclist}}
{{About|the track cyclist|the swimmer|Craig McLean}}
{{Tone|date=December 2012}}
{{EngvarB|date=April 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name           = Craig MacLean
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}}
| image          = 2019 UCI Juniors Track World Championships 116.jpg
| caption = Craig MacLean (2019)
| fullname       = Craig MacLean
| nickname       =
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1971|7|31}}
| birth_place    = [[Grantown-on-Spey]], Scotland
| height         = 1.74 m<ref name="Olympic">{{cite web| url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=2087| title=Athlete > Craig MacLean| publisher=British Olympic Association| access-date=17 December 2009| archive-date=24 February 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224231656/http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=2087| url-status=dead}}</ref>
| weight         = 87&nbsp;kg<ref name="Olympic" />
| currentteam    =
| discipline     = Track
| role           = Rider
| ridertype      =
| amateuryears1  =
| amateurteam1   = [[City of Edinburgh Racing Club]]
| proyears1      = 2007–2008
| proteam1       = [[Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/maclean-joins-plowman-craven-evans-88890 |title=MacLean Joins Plowman Craven Evans |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=13 September 2007 |website=[[Cycling Weekly]]|access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref>
| majorwins      =
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's [[track cycling]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]]|[[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint|Team sprint]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Paralympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics|2012 London]]|[[Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's sprint|Tandem B sprint]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2002 Copenhagen]]|Team sprint}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1999 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1999 Berlin]]|Team sprint}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2000 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2000 Manchester]]|Team sprint}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2006 Bordeaux]]|Sprint}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2006 Bordeaux]]|Team sprint}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2007 Palma de Mallorca]]|[[2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team sprint|Team sprint]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2001 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2001 Antwerp]]|Team sprint}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2003 Stuttgart]]|Team sprint}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2004 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2004 Melbourne]]|Team sprint}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships|Para-cycling World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships|2011 Montichiari]]|[[2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships – Men's sprint|Tandem B sprint]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships|2011 Montichiari]]|[[2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships – Men's 1 km time trial|Tandem B kilo]]}}
{{MedalGold|2012 Los Angeles|Tandem B kilo}}
{{MedalGold|2012 Los Angeles|Tandem B sprint}}
{{MedalBronze|2016 Montichiari|Tandem B sprint}}
{{MedalCountry|{{SCO}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalGold|[[Cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|[[Cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games#Men's Team Sprint|Team sprint]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games|2014 Glasgow]]| [[Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's tandem 1km time trial B|Tandem B kilo]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games|2014 Glasgow]]| [[Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's tandem sprint B|Tandem B sprint]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[Cycling at the 2002 Commonwealth Games|2002 Manchester]]|[[Cycling at the 2002 Commonwealth Games#Track|Team sprint]]}}
| show-medals    = yes
}}

'''Craig MacLean''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] ([[Grantown-on-Spey]], July 31, 1971) is a Scottish [[track cyclist]] who represented [[Great Britain at the Olympics|Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in Sydney and the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in Athens, winning a silver medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics. MacLean returned to the sport as a sighted guide in the Paralympics, piloting [[Neil Fachie]] to two gold medals in the [[2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships]], and [[Anthony Kappes]] to a gold medal in the [[2012 Paralympic Games]]. MacLean is only the second athlete, after Hungarian fencer [[Pál Szekeres]], ever to win medals at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

MacLean has also won medals in five [[UCI Track World Championships]] in the team Sprint, Silver in 1999, Silver in 2000, Bronze in 2001, Gold in 2002, Bronze in 2003, and Bronze in 2004. MacLean also won a bronze medal for [[Scotland at the 2002 Commonwealth Games|Scotland]] in the Team sprint at the [[2002 Commonwealth Games]], followed by a gold medal in the event at the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] in Australia. As a sighted guide to [[Neil Fachie]] he won a further two gold medals at the [[2014 Commonwealth Games]] in, and for, his native Scotland. In the Commonwealth Games, certain para-cycling events are integrated as full medal events into the program.

He was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[2013 New Year Honours]] for services to cycling.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60367 |date=29 December 2012 |page=25 |supp=y}}</ref>

==Career==
Born in [[Grantown-on-Spey]],<ref name="Olympic" /> MacLean kicked off his cycling career as second man in the Great Britain Team Sprint until switching to lead man in 2002. He broke the GB kilometre record at the Olympic Trials in 2004.

MacLean's career as a member of the British elite team came to a close in 2008. He suffered from a mystery illness ( later diagnosed as Coeliac disease) for the majority of his career so could no longer perform at the level required. This, coupled with the form of rising stars like [[Jason Kenny]] and resurgence of fellow veteran [[Jamie Staff]], meant that he narrowly missed out on the squad for the World Championships and Olympic games.

MacLean declared that the Manchester round of the World Cup Classics in November 2008 was his last ride as a UCI accredited rider. In the World Cup round he competed in the Keirin and Sprint for the Plowman Craven Trade team. He won his Keirin heat but was relegated by the officials. In the sprint he qualified in the top 5 but lost in the first round after a controversial move by his German opponent.{{citation needed|date=July 2011}}

He sat out international competition for two years from 2008 to 2010, the mandatory requirement to become a pilot for para-cycling tandem racing.<ref>[http://www.sportinglife.com/london2012/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=cycling/11/03/25/CYCLING_World_MacLean.html&BID=6932 MacLEAN RULES OUT OLYMPIC BID | Sporting Life]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> At the [[2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships]], MacLean piloted [[Neil Fachie]] to golds in the Tandem B Sprint and Tandem B 1000m Time Trial.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/9422928.stm | work=BBC News | title=Kenny leads Britain's medal rush | date=12 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/9423777.stm | work=BBC News | title=Storey wins again as GB dominate | date=13 March 2011}}</ref>

In 2012, he switched to piloting [[Anthony Kappes]], with [[Barney Storey]] piloting Fachie; the move was a success for both tandems, as each tandem team won a gold medal at the [[2012 Paralympic Games]]. In doing so, MacLean became only the second athlete to win medals at both Olympic and Paralympic Games.

While sitting out international competition, he continued to make some racing appearances at the Revolution events in Manchester. He appeared at Revolution 22 in December 2008, competing in the Sprint and Keirin events.

MacLean reunited with Neil Fachie for the [[2014 Commonwealth Games]] in Glasgow, where the pairing won gold in the kilo time trial.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/commonwealth-games/28489947 |title=Glasgow 2014: Fachie & Maclean land cycling gold for Scotland |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=25 July 2014 |website=[[bbc.co.uk]]|access-date=25 July 2014}}</ref> They followed this up with another gold in the sprint where they came back from losing their first ride in the final to beat the Australian duo of [[Kieran Modra]] and [[Jason Niblett]] 2–1.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/commonwealth-games/28503961 |title=Glasgow 2014: Second gold for Neil Fachie and Craig Maclean |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=26 July 2014 |website=[[bbc.co.uk]] |access-date=26 July 2014}}</ref>

==Television and media==

In 2007 MacLean had an experimental documentary made about him called ''Standing Start'' made by BAFTA winner Adrian McDowall and Finlay Pretsell.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} The film documents MacLean in his build up to the World Cup team sprint win in 2007. The film has screened worldwide and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

In November 2008 Craig took up the challenge of becoming a [[Bobsleigh]] competitor for the BBC programme 'Bobsleigh Challenge', which was broadcast in February 2009. This programme challenged Craig and fellow British sportsmen [[Jason Gardener]], [[Dean Macey]] and [[Dan Luger]] to qualify for the British Championships in Italy, with only 10 days training. Craig teamed up with Luger as one team, while Macey and Gardener made up the other team. After training the teams had to complete two runs down the course without crashing to qualify. After a number of crashes, when both Craig and Dan were driving, both did qualify. However a number further crashes and injuries sustained by Craig meant that they did not complete two runs in the actual competition and were not classified. Just qualifying for the event with only 10 days training was still a remarkable achievement. The other team of Macey and Gardener went one better and finished 6th overall in the competition, ahead of one of the Great Britain Olympic Development teams.

Craig is featured alongside Chris Hoy in a book by [[Richard Moore (journalist)|Richard Moore]], ''Heroes, Villains and Velodromes: Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution''. This describes how Maclean and Hoy were key figures in the rise of British Track Cycling. The book was published in June 2008 by [[HarperCollins]]. ({{ISBN|9780007265312}})

In 2009, he was inducted into the [[British Cycling Hall of Fame]].<ref name="BChalloffame">{{cite web| url=http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/sport/article/bc20091216-Hall-of-fame-fifty| title=50 Cycling Heroes Named in British Cycling's Hall of Fame| publisher=British Cycling| date=17 December 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220041110/http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/sport/article/bc20091216-Hall-of-fame-fifty| archive-date=20 December 2009}}</ref>

==Major results==
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;1999
:2nd Team sprint, [[1999 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
;2000
:2nd Team Sprint, [[2000 Summer Olympics]]
:2nd Team sprint, [[2000 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
;2001
:3rd Team sprint, [[2001 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
;2002
:1st Team sprint, [[2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
:3rd Team sprint, [[2002 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
;2003
:3rd Team sprint, [[2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
:1st Kilo, [[British National Track Championships]]
:1st Team sprint, [[British National Track Championships]]
;2004
:3rd Team sprint, [[2004 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
:2nd Team sprint, Round 1, Moscow, [[2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2004 Track World Cup]]
:1st Kilo, Round 3, Manchester, [[2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2004 Track World Cup]]
:1st Team sprint, Round 3, Manchester, [[2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2004 Track World Cup]]
:1st Sprint, Round 4, Sydney, [[2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2004 Track World Cup]]
:1st Team sprint, Round 4, Sydney, [[2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2004 Track World Cup]]
;2005
:1st Team sprint, Round 3, Manchester, [[2004–2005 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2004–2005 Track World Cup]]
:2nd Sprint, Round 1, Moscow, [[2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
:2nd Team sprint, Round 1, Moscow, [[2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
:1st Team sprint, Round 2, Manchester, [[2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
:1st Sprint, [[British National Track Championships]]
;2006
:1st Team sprint, [[2006 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
:2nd Sprint, [[2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
:2nd Team sprint, [[2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Track World Championships]]
:1st Sprint, Round 1, Sydney, [[2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
:1st Team sprint, Round 1, Sydney, [[2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
:3rd Sprint, Round 2, Moscow, [[2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
:1st Team sprint, Round 2, Moscow, [[2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
:1st Sprint, [[British National Track Championships]]
:1st Team sprint, [[British National Track Championships]]
;2007
:2nd [[2007 Masters of Sprint|Masters of Sprint]]
:1st Team sprint, Round 4, Manchester, [[2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics|2006–2007 Track World Cup]]
{{div col end}}

==See also==
* [[2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes]]
*[[City of Edinburgh Racing Club]]
*[[Achievements of members of City of Edinburgh Racing Club]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Craig MacLean}}
*{{cite web| url=http://www.rollapaluza.com/?p=132| title=Craig MacLean's Rollapaluza record ride| publisher=[[Rollapaluza]]}}

{{UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team sprint}}
{{Footer British National Men's Track Sprint Champions}}
{{British Cycling Hall of Fame}}

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