Mark Rohan

Mark Rohan
Personal information
Nickname Red[1]
Born (1981-07-26) 26 July 1981[2]
Ballinahown, County Westmeath
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Team information
Discipline Road handcycle
Role Rider
Rider type Time trialist/all-rounder

Mark Rohan (born 26 July 1981) is an Irish cyclist, and a former Gaelic football and wheelchair basketball player. He competes in the H1 disability sport classification as he has been paralysed from the chest down since a spinal cord injury in 2001. Rohan won two gold medals in the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[3]

He won a gold medal in the Men's road time trial H1 event and in the Men's road race H1 event.[4][5][6]

References

  1. "Mark Rohan". Paracycling Ireland. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. http://www.followyourstar.ie/athlete/mark-rohan/
  3. "Rohan looks to follow poster girls' route to gold". Irish Independent. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  4. "Mark Rohan wins gold for Ireland at the Paralympics". RTÉ Sport. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  5. "Mark Rohan secures yet another gold medal for Ireland". Score. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  6. "Paralympics 2012: Mark Rohan clinches another Irish gold". Retrieved 7 September 2012.
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