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Milan.
champion in
Sheil becomes
world pursuit
1952.
1953.
Bidlake
John Arnold.
able results ever seen,
later.
affair,
1955.
1956.
1954.
Booty
However,
broke competition record twice.
the more-than 200-mile distance,
his way a little,
four-hour 100,
Ray Booty.
Norman Sheil.
Vigorelli track at Milan.
Keith Bentley was a specialist 50-miler,
one went higher than Sheil,
figures which still stand today.
nothing comparable followed that great victory.
with Pete Brotherton taking the silver medal.
He was a World Champion who is remembered,
the tandem trike which may perhaps never be beaten.
but came back for a second world title in 1958.
Peacock failed to score a single significant victory,
ironically,
gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games - in 1954 and 1958.
In the following year,
He put up four of the five fastest 50-mile times of the year.
,
r
The 1950s were great days for British pursuiting,
with his 3:58:28 in the classic Bath Road event in August.
trike.Arnold’s figures of 457.33 added a staggering 35 miles to the existing trike record of the time.
He was also a double
in 1956, when he achieved the magic landmark of time-trialling, the first sub-
The National 24-hour championship this year witnessed one of the most remark-
as a failure because
In
Sheil lost
when Phil Carter won the event by just two miles from John Arnoldiding a
who in this year won the National Championship and
and retired two years
Cyril Peacock won the World Amateur Sprint Championship in Cologne,
If ever a man was a stone-cold certainty for the Bidlake it was
and no
It is sometimes forgotten that the final was an all-British
He did
1954 Arnold would team up with Albert Crimes to set an End-to-End record on
who won the world amateur title on the famous
and after turning professional he was inevitably seen as the next Reg Harris.
Milan.
champion in
Sheil becomes
world pursuit
1952.
1953.
Bidlake
John Arnold.
able results ever seen,
later.
affair,
1955.
1956.
1954.
Booty
However,
broke competition record twice.
the more-than 200-mile distance,
his way a little,
four-hour 100,
Ray Booty.
Norman Sheil.
Vigorelli track at Milan.
Keith Bentley was a specialist 50-miler,
one went higher than Sheil,
figures which still stand today.
nothing comparable followed that great victory.
with Pete Brotherton taking the silver medal.
He was a World Champion who is remembered,
the tandem trike which may perhaps never be beaten.
but came back for a second world title in 1958.
Peacock failed to score a single significant victory,
ironically,
gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games - in 1954 and 1958.
In the following year,
He put up four of the five fastest 50-mile times of the year.
,
r
The 1950s were great days for British pursuiting,
with his 3:58:28 in the classic Bath Road event in August.
trike.Arnold’s figures of 457.33 added a staggering 35 miles to the existing trike record of the time.
He was also a double
in 1956, when he achieved the magic landmark of time-trialling, the first sub-
The National 24-hour championship this year witnessed one of the most remark-
as a failure because
In
Sheil lost
when Phil Carter won the event by just two miles from John Arnoldiding a
who in this year won the National Championship and
and retired two years
Cyril Peacock won the World Amateur Sprint Championship in Cologne,
If ever a man was a stone-cold certainty for the Bidlake it was
and no
It is sometimes forgotten that the final was an all-British
He did
1954 Arnold would team up with Albert Crimes to set an End-to-End record on
who won the world amateur title on the famous
and after turning professional he was inevitably seen as the next Reg Harris.
