Donald Allan

Donald Allan
To person
Full name	Donald John Allan
Date of birth	September 24, 1949
nation	Australia
discipline	Road cycling , track cycling
Team (s)
1974–1977 ; 1978 ; 1979–1980 ; 1981 ; 1982 ; 1983 ; 1984 ; 1986	Frisol ; Barnett-Edwards-Shimano ; pony ; Zonca ; Kyoso ; Qantas ; Teka ; Peugeot-Michelin
Most important successes
	Six days race 1982 Gent (with Danny Clark ); Herning (with Danny Clark); 1981 Rotterdam with Danny Clark ; Munich (with Danny Clark); Madrid (with Faustino Rupérez ); 1980 Hanover (with Danny Clark ); Munich with Danny Clark; Münster (with Danny Clark); London (with Danny Clark); 1979 Melbourne (with Hilton Clarke ); Maastricht (with Danny Clark ); Gent (with Danny Clark); 1978 Copenhagen (with Danny Clark ); Herning (with Danny Clark); London (with Danny Clark); 1977 Münster (with Danny Clark ); 1976 Gent (with Danny Clark )

Donald John Allan (born September 24, 1949 in Melbourne ) is a retired Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

In 1972 Donald Allan started at the Olympic Games in Munich and finished 58th in the road race , while he was 17th in the team time trial with the Australian team ( Jose Graeme , Clyde Sefton , John Trevorrow ). In 1973 he won one stage each of the Tour of Austria and the International Peace Tour . Until 1977 he started for the Dutch team Frisol , for which he also took part in the Tour de France twice.

Allan then focused on six-day races . Between 1976 and 1986 he contested 107 six-day races, of which he won 17. With 15 wins he teamed up with Danny Clark . In 1976 the two drivers also won a silver medal together at the European championship in two-man team driving .

His younger brother was David Allan , who was killed in a car accident in 1989; his cousin is the former cyclist Peter Besanko .

Web links

Donald Allan in the Radsportseiten.net database

Donald Allan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Donald Allan in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Donald Allan. The-Sports.org, accessed January 5, 2014 .

Individual evidence

↑ The European championships before the founding of the " European Cycling Union " (UEC) in 1995 are considered unofficial, since up to that point they were usually invitation races in which non-European riders could also take part.

personal data
SURNAME	Allan, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Allan, Donald John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne , Australia

[1] The European championships before the founding of the " European Cycling Union " (UEC) in 1995 are considered unofficial, since up to that point they were usually invitation races in which non-European riders could also take part.