Brian Jolly

Brian Jolly

Brian Jolly (born March 1, 1946 in Sheffield ) is a retired British cyclist and British cycling champion .

Athletic career

Jolly emerged internationally for the first time with overall victory and winning the Mountain Prize of the Tour of Ireland in 1965. In 1968 he won 12 victories, two of which were in stages of the Marocko Tour . He also started in the International Peace Tour in 1968 and was 55. The British Federation nominated him for participation in the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City , where he started in the road race and finished 50th. He became British champion in 1969 and won the Tour of Scotland with several stage wins. In the British Milk Race he won three stages and was 12th in the overall classification. At the beginning of the season he had already won the Tour Often the Peaks, which is very popular in Great Britain. These successes prompted him to obtain a license as a professional driver in 1970 , and from 1971 to 1974 he drove for the well-known TI-Raleigh team , which at that time had mostly hired British drivers. In his first year as a professional he scored nine victories, including the Tour of the Peaks and he won the longest British one-day race from London to York over 351 kilometers. In 1973 he was able to win the British championship before ex-world champion Les West .

In 1975 he ended his professional career.

Professional

In later years Jolly et al. a. as head of the Canadian Tour of Alberta and active in other functions in Canadian cycling.

Web links

• Brian Jolly in the Sports-Reference.com database
• Brian Jolly in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 241 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Tour of Alberta: Interview with Brian Jolly. Retrieved July 2, 2019 . 
3. ↑ CYCLING CANADA INVITES COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HALL OF FAME 2016 SELECTIONS. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .