Raymond Charles Booty

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Raymond Charles Booty (born September 3, 1932 in Ipswich , † August 25, 2012 in Derby ) was a British cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

"Ray" Booty (nicknamed The Boot) started cycling at the Ericsson Wheelers Cycling Club in Nottingham . From 1955 to 1959 he won the British time trial championship over 160 kilometers every year . 1954 to 1958 he won the title race for the 12-hour time trial championship. The trademark of the tall driver was horn-rimmed glasses with thick rims. He was considered quite difficult to deal with, so he turned down offers to go to the continent and start there for a French or Belgian amateur team because he did not want to submit to the continental way of life or a team manager.

He was the first winner to complete the route in under four hours (1956) and was 12 minutes ahead of runner-up Stan Brittain . From 1955 to 1957 he won the British Best Allrounder (BBAR) competition three times , a series of competitions based on the best average speeds in several time trials of 50 and 100 miles and 12 hours. Before and later, he finished on the podium.

Booty won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games road race in Cardiff in 1958 as a member of the British Army . In 1954 he won the Manx International , at that time the best international race for amateurs in Great Britain. In 1955 he took part in the International Peace Tour, but dropped out of the race after a fall. In the same year he was ninth in the road race of the UCI Road World Championships and thus best Briton. His best finish in the British Road Race Championships was second in 1960 behind Brian Kirby .

Professional

Booty then worked as an electronics engineer at Rolls-Royce in Derby and used the daily commute to and from work as part of his training.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les Woodland: This Island Race . Mousehold Press, Norwich 2005, pp. 132 (English).
  2. ↑ Keith Bingham: Time trialling great Ray Booty dies - Cycling Weekly. In: cyclingweekly.com. August 29, 2012, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 230 .
  4. ^ A b Richard Williams: Ray Booty obituary. In: theguardian.com. February 21, 2018, accessed March 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Booty, Raymond Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Booty, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2012
Place of death Derby