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Full name | Mark Bristow | |||||||||||||||||
Born | England Great Britain | 8 July 1962|||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||
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Mark Bristow MBE (born 8 July 1962) is an English paralympic cyclist.[1] Born in Nazeing near Waltham Abbey, Essex, Bristow currently resides in Sacramento, California.[2] He took up the sport of disability cycling after being injured in a bike crash in San Francisco in September 1997. Bristow's is a computer administrator, and is related to the darts player Eric Bristow.[3]
Bristow was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to disabled sport in the 2009 New Years Honours.[4]