George Wiley

George Wiley

George Wiley (1913)
To person
Full name	George Elsworth Wiley
Date of birth	May 1, 1885
date of death	March 3, 1954
nation	United States
discipline	train
End of career	1925
Most important successes
World championships 1912 - Standing race Olympic games Olympic second 5 miles 1904 Olympic Knight 25 Miles 1904 American championships 1912, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1918 - standing races

George Elsworth Wiley (born May 1, 1885 in Little Falls , † March 3, 1954 in New York City ) was an American cyclist .

Athletic career

George Wiley became a telegraph messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company at the age of 14 and used the bicycle for his work. After several successes in local cycling races, he started at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis in 1904 and won the silver medal over 5 miles and the bronze medal over 25 miles on the track . However, only US athletes competed in these Olympic cycling competitions.

In 1907, Wiley, who is described as petite, became a professional driver (until 1925). From 1909 Wiley started in six-day races , including the 4th  Berlin six-day race in February 1912, where he had to give up after a fall; in Dresden he came second in the same year and in Paris in 1913 third. His biggest success was winning the uprights - World Championships in 1912, five times he was US champion in this discipline.

After finishing his cycling career in 1925, George Wiley coached the Utica Braves baseball team .

Web links and sources

Commons : George Wiley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• George Wiley in the Radsportseiten.net database
• George Wiley in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Wheel world . Sports album. A cycling yearbook. 11th year, 1913, ZDB -ID 749618-7 .