Cyril Peacock
Cyril Francis Peacock (born February 7, 1928 in Manchester , † December 31, 1992 ) was a British track cyclist .
Career
Cyril Peacock was a successful amateur - track sprinters . In 1952 at the UCI rail world championships he finished third and at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki fourth place. At the rail world championships in Cologne in 1954 , he was sprint world champion. In the same year he also won the sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris .
In 1952 and 1953, Peacock won the most important international track race that was held in Great Britain at the time, the Champions of Champions Trophy (a sprint tournament).
In 1955, Peacock was involved in a serious car accident as a driver in France , near the town of Sainte-Magnance . In the head-on collision, his co-driver, the Australian racing cyclist Lindsay Cocks, was killed, as was the driver of the other car. Peacock was seriously injured in this accident. The two drivers were on their way back from the UCI Track World Championships in 1955 in Milan , where both had started.
Cyril Peacock, who was originally a glassblower by profession, married a Danish woman and moved to Denmark. He died there in 1992.
successes
World championship medals
- gold
- Sprint (amateurs): 1954
- bronze
- Sprint (amateurs): 1952
References and comments
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 11/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 8 .
- ↑ The Age , September 7, 1955
- ↑ The cause of the accident was assumed to be that, as a British man, Peacock had accidentally driven on the left side of the road.
- ^ The Age , April 15, 1952
Web links
- Cyril Peacock in the Radsportseiten.net database
1893 Arthur A. Zimmerman | 1894 August Lehr | 1895 Jaap Eden | 1896 Harry Reynolds | 1897 Edwin Schrader | 1898 Paul Albert | 1899 Thomas Summersgill | 1900 Alphonse Didier-Nauts | 1901 Émile Maitrot | 1902 Charles Piard | 1903 Arthur L. Reed | 1904 Marcus Hurley | 1905 Jimmy S. Benyon | 1906 Francesco Verri | 1907 Jean Devoissoux | 1908 Victor Johnson | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913 William Bailey | 1912 Donald McDougall | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Maurice Peeters | 1921 Henry Brask Andersen | 1922 Thomas Johnson | 1923, 1924 Lucien Michard | 1925 Jaap Meijer | 1926 Avanti Martinetti | 1927 Mathias Engel | 1928 Willy Falck Hansen | 1929 Antoine Mazairac | 1930 Louis Gérardin | 1931 Helge Harder | 1932 Albert Richter | 1933 Jacobus van Egmond | 1934 Benedetto Pola | 1935 Toni Merkens | 1936 Arie van Vliet | 1937, 1938 Jef van de Vijver | 1939 Jan Derksen | 1940–1945 not held | 1946 Oscar Plattner ; | 1947 Reginald Harris | 1948 Mario Ghella | 1949 Sydney Patterson | 1950 Maurice Verdeun | 1951, 1952 Enzo Sacchi | 1953 Marino Morettini | 1954 Cyril Peacock | 1955 Giuseppe Ogna | 1956, 1957 Michel Rousseau | 1958, 1959 Valentino Gasparella | 1960 Sante Gaiardoni | 1961, 1962 Sergio Bianchetto | 1963 Patrick Sercu | 1964 Pierre Trentin | 1965 Omar Pchakadze | 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 Daniel Morelon | 1968 Luigi Borghetti | 1972 not held | 1974, 1978 Anton Tkáč | 1976 not held | 1977 Jürgen Geschke | 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987 Lutz Heßlich | 1980 not held | 1981, 1982 Sergei Kopylov | 1984 not held | 1986 Michael Huebner | 1988 not held | 1989, 1990 Bill Huck | 1991 Jens Fiedler
(Afterwards the separation between amateurs and professionals was lifted. Further results under world champion in sprint )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peacock, Cyril |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peacock, Cyril Francis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1992 |