Mark Colbourne

Mark Colbourne, an MBE born on 9 November 1969 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, is a former Welsh Paralympic cyclist who competed for both Wales and Great Britain. He played volleyball internationally for Wales between 1990 and 1993, and broke his back in 2009 falling 35 feet after an emergency landing while paragliding. He began cycling through Disability Sport Wales, competes in the C1 classification for riders on upright bikes with the most severe disability, and trained with coach Neil Smith at the Newport Velodrome. At the 2012 Paralympics he won silver in the C1-3 1 km time trial on 30 August, Great Britain's first medal of those Games, and gold in the C1 3 km individual pursuit on 31 August after breaking the world record in qualifying and the final.