Martin Earley

Martin Earley
Personal information
Born	15 June 1962 (age 62); Clonshaugh, Dublin, Ireland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team
1983–1984	VC Fontainebleau
Professional teams
1985–1987	Fagor
1988	Kas–Canal 10
1989–1992	PDM–Ultima–Concorde
1993	Festina–Lotus
1994–1995	Raleigh Continental
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1989) Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (1986) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1994)

Martin Earley (born 15 June 1962) is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed in the 1984 and 1996 Olympic Games.

Racing career

He turned professional in 1985 with the Fagor team with whom he stayed until 1987. In 1986 he won the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia and the second of the Tour of the Basque Country. In 1987, he was part of the Irish team at the world road championship that ended with a win by Stephen Roche. After that he rode for Kas and then the Dutch PDM team of Sean Kelly. The highlight of his career was a stage win in the 1989 Tour de France when he broke clear of three riders 750m from the end of 157 km from Labastide-d'Armagnac to Pau. Earley completed five of his eight Tours; his highest finish was 44th in 1989.

After PDM left the sport, he rode for Festina, then switched to mountain biking by riding for Raleigh and then for individual sponsors. He competed in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta in the mountain bike race and finished 25th.^[1]