title: Mark McCormack (cyclist)
text: # Mark McCormack (cyclist)
  
  Mark McCormack (born September 15, 1970, Plymouth, Massachusetts) is a professional cyclo-cross and road bicycle racer from the United States. McCormack became the first rider to hold the U.S. national championship in cyclocross and road bicycle racing in a career.
  
  ## Major results
  
  ### 1997
  
  * USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
  
  ### 1999
  
  * 1st, Stage 4, Tour of Denmark
  * 1st, Stage 2, Gran Prix Cycliste de Beauce, Canada
  
  ### 2003
  
  * USPRO National Championships
  * Overall champion, Professional Cycling Tour (PCT)
  
  ### 2004
  
  * 1st overall, Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
  * 1st overall, Giordana Classic Criterium Series
  * 1st overall, Green Mountain Stage Race
  * 1st overall, Tour of Connecticut
  * 1st, Downeast Cyclo Cross, Verge New England Championship Cyclo-cross Series
  * 1st, Whitmores Landscaping Cyclo Cross
  * 1st, Marblehead Circuit Race, Massachusetts
  
  ### 2005
  
  * 1st, Chris Thater Memorial
  * 1st overall, Tour of Connecticut
  * 2nd overall, International Tour de Toona
     * 1st, Stage 1
     * 1st, Stage 5
  * 1st, Tour of Grandview Criterium
  
  ### 2006
  
      1st CSC Invitational
  * 1st, Cox Charities Cycling Classic
  * 1st overall, Verge New England Championship Cyclo-cross Series
  
  On Monday November 12, 2012, McCormack took first place in one, if not the, first ever "fat tire" bicycle race at the Coonemesset Farms Eco-Cross in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The "fat tire" race was held on the cyclocross course during Coonemesset Farms Eco-Cross and required that all participant's bicycles had a tire width no narrower than 3.5".
  
  