Compton Gonsalves

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Compton Aloysius Gonsalves (born December 11, 1926 in Georgetown , Guiana , † March 8, 2012 in San Fernando ) was a cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago .

Compton Gonsalves started cycling in 1945. Just a year later he won the bronze medal in the singles pursuit at the fifth Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla , Colombia . On his return he founded the Saddle Boys Cycle Club , won five national titles and set two records the following year. Then, surprisingly, he gave up the sport and moved to England . After a ten-month sporting break, he decided to take part in the track cycling competitions at the 1948 Olympic Games in Londonto take part, however, because of his break from competition and training, he only took 16th place out of 21 participants in the single pursuit and was eliminated in the sprint in the first round.

In 1949 Gonsalves teamed up with his local cycling colleague Ferdi de Gannes to remove cycling from the domination of the Amateur Athletic Association , which is under the control of the oil company Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd. stood to solve. In 1951 the Trinidad and Tobago Cycling Federation was founded and accepted into the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI); the two athletes could not start in any UCI competition in the meantime. In 1950, however, Gonsalves won a silver medal in the sprint and a bronze medal in the time trial and in the team pursuit at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Guatemala City . In 1951 he ended his active cycling career.

In 1952 he founded the Madonna Wheelers Cycling Club with three other colleagues . Then Gonsalves became president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cycling Federation . In later years he moved to Canada . Since 2010 the “Compton Gonsalves All Star Invitational 300 Meter Power Sprint” has been held in his honor every year in his home country.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compton Gonsalves funeral tomorrow on guardian.co.tt v. March 11, 2012
  2. ↑ profile on Cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved February 28, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gonsalves, Compton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonsalves, Compton Aloysius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgetown (Guyana)
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2012
Place of death San Fernando (Trinidad and Tobago)