Arthur Metcalfe

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Arthur Metcalfe (born September 27, 1938 in Leeds , † December 11, 2002 in Harrowgate ) was a British cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

At fourteen, he joined the Hartlepool Cycling Club and began cycling. At the age of 21 he was drafted to Cyprus for military service, but was still able to train there. Metcalfe won the British Milk Race in 1964 . At the Tour of Canada (Tour du St. Laurent) in autumn that year, he won two stages. In 1965 he won the Manx International, a strong international one-day race on the Isle of Man , and won several stages as well as the mountain classification in the Milk Race . Metcalfe won the British championship in the amateurs road race in 1966 (after he was runner-up the year before) and in the individual time trial , as well as the British Best Allrounder (BBAR: a series of time trials over various distances). At the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 at the Nürburgring , he finished 23rd in the amateur road race .

In 1967 he became a professional driver in the British Carlton team (a small team with only five drivers) and competed for Great Britain in the Tour de France as a helper for Tom Simpson . He finished 69th in the overall ranking. In 1968 he retired on the 17th stage. As a professional in a British team, he earned so little money that he had to do an office job at the same time. He had to take a vacation to take part in the tour. He won several races on British soil, including the traditional Folkstone – London in 1968, but rarely drove on the continental mainland. He remained a professional for four years until 1970, after a broken pelvis he ended his professional career, then he became an amateur again and won the Rapport Tour in South Africa in 1974 . At this time of apartheid politics there was a boycott of South Africa on the sporting level. However, since he started there, the British Association suspended him.

Professional

Metcalfe ran a bike shop for racing bike frames in Harrogate until the 1970s with his former bike colleague Welwey Mason. He later became manager of the Carlton professional team, then as an insurance agent and financial advisor in Leeds.

Familiar

Both his father and his two brothers were racing cyclists.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .
  2. ↑ Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1966-1975 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 2000, p. 40 .
  3. ↑ Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1966-1975 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 2000, p. 55 .
  4. ↑ a b c Arthur Metcalfe. In: telegraph.co.uk. December 21, 2002, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  5. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 9/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 7 .
  6. ^ Arthur Metcalfe dies after battle with cancer: Arthur Metcalfe dies after battle with cancer - BikeBiz. In: bikebiz.com. December 12, 2002, accessed February 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Metcalfe, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2002
Place of death Harrowgate