Alan Ramsbottom

Alan Ramsbottom (born April 30, 1936 in Clayton-le-Moors ) is a retired British cyclist .

Athletic career

Ramsbottom had already won several races in Great Britain (including the Tour of the North in 1959 and a stage in the Milk Race in 1960) when he decided to go to France on the mainland and join a club ( UV Aube ) there. The main reason for this was his disappointment that he was not nominated for the Summer Olympics in Rome in 1960. In 1961 he won the second stage of the Tour de l'Avenir (17th overall) and then became a neo-professional in the Pelforth-Sauvage-Lejeune cycling team . In 1962 he drove his first Tour de France , which he finished in 45th place. He won a stage of the Tour de l'Aude . In 1963 he was 16th on the tour.

In 1964 he won the Tour de Haute-Loire race , but was not nominated for the tour that year. He moved to Belgium and trained with Tom Simpson , for whose team Peugeot he is now starting. However, a training fall threw him back.

In 1966 he returned to his homeland, meanwhile married and father of two children. He moved to Great Harwood, Lancashire and returned to his previous job as a sewing machine mechanic.

Web links

Alan Ramsbottom in the Radsportseiten.net database

Alan Ramsbottom in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 14/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 6 .
^ William Fotheringham: Put me back on my bike. The Tom Simpson Biography . Covadonga, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 978-3-936973-29-7 , pp. 104 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ramsbottom, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Clayton-le-Moors

[1] German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 14/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 6 .

[2] William Fotheringham: Put me back on my bike. The Tom Simpson Biography . Covadonga, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 978-3-936973-29-7 , pp. 104 .