Clyde Sefton

Clyde Sefton

To person
Full name	Kevin Sefton
Date of birth	January 20, 1951
nation	Australia
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
End of career	1983
Most important successes
Olympic games 1972 - road racing Commonwealth Games 1974 - road racing
Last updated: September 14, 2019

Kevin "Clyde" Sefton (born January 20, 1951 in South Purrumbete ) is a former Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

Clyde Sefton grew up on a dairy farm. He rode his first bike race on the initiative of his older brother Ian. At the age of 13 he competed in his first cycle race, at 16 he celebrated his first victory. He also trained with weights and also played boxing matches. In addition to his cycling training, he continued to work on the family farm and in Camperdown, 35 kilometers away, as a bricklayer . During his lunch break, he trained by driving to the nearby Mount Leura (320 meters high) and then going back to work until 5 p.m. and then back to the farm.

At the age of 20, Sefton declared participation in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich to be his goal. For this he moved to Mulgrave to his trainer Ken Trowell. He started the road race as a previously unknown athlete and won the silver medal. This made him the first Australian to win an Olympic medal in road cycling and the only male until 2004 . The following year he won the Scottish Milk Race , and in 1974 he won the gold medal in road racing at the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch . 1976 Sefton took part in the Olympic Games for a second time and finished in 28th place in the individual road race and ninth in the team race (with Ian Chandler , Remo Sansonetti and Sal Sansonetti ).

In 1977 Sefton joined the professionals . Until 1983 he drove mainly for Italian teams . In 1978 he was runner-up in the Giro della Romagna , the Herald Sun Tour and the Giro del Piemonte . In 1980 he won the Six Days of Melbourne , along with Peter Delongville ; he also started in the six-day race in Dortmund . In 1981 he became the Australian road racing champion and won the Herald Sun Tour . He also achieved several podium places in international races and won national races.

Today Clyde Sefton lives near his hometown and runs a farm for breeding game.

Success list

Street

1972

• Olympic Games - Road Racing

1973

• Overall ranking and one stage Tour of Scotland

1974

• Commonwealth Games Winner - Road Race
• two stages of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia

1976

• * Australian amateur champion - road racing

1978

• two stage Herald Sun Tour

1979

• one stage Herald Sun Tour

1981

• Australian champion - road racing
• Overall standings and four stages Herald Sun Tour

1982

• two stage Herald Sun Tour

1983

• three stage Herald Sun Tour

train

1980

• Six days Melbourne (with Peter Delongville )

Web links

• Clyde Sefton in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Clyde Sefton in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Clyde Sefton on cyclingtips.com.au v. July 26, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Where are they now? - Clyde Sefton. In: CyclingTips. May 13, 2016, accessed on September 14, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Paul Daffey: Pssst. In: The Sydney Morning Herald. January 26, 2014, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Clyde Sefton on deerfarming.com. Accessed September 14, 2019 (pdf)