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Mark Rohan
Personal information
Nickname	Red
Born	26 July 1981 (age 42); Ballinahown, County Westmeath
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Team information
Discipline	Road handcycle
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist/all-rounder
Medal record
Paralympic Games
Representing Ireland
Road bicycle racing

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 edit

^ "Mark Rohan". Paracycling Ireland. Archived from the original on 19 November 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
^ "Mark Rohan | Follow Your Star". Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
^ "Rohan looks to follow poster girls' route to gold". Irish Independent. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
^ "Mark Rohan wins gold for Ireland at the Paralympics". RTÉ Sport. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
^ "Mark Rohan secures yet another gold medal for Ireland". Score. 5 September 2012. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
^ "Paralympics 2012: Mark Rohan clinches another Irish gold". Retrieved 7 September 2012.