title: Mark Bristow
text: # Mark Bristow
  
  Mark Bristow MBE (born 8 July 1962) is an English paralympic cyclist. Born in Nazeing near Waltham Abbey, Essex, Bristow currently resides in Sacramento, California. 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.
  
  Bristow was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to disabled sport in the 2009 New Years Honours.
  
  