Graham Webb

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Graham Webb (1967)

Graham Webb (born January 13, 1944 in Birmingham , England - † May 28, 2017 in Eastwood , Nottinghamshire , England) was a British cyclist and the only British amateur world champion in road racing .

Life

Graham Webb grew up as the youngest of five children of a war widow in the poor district of Birmingham. As a child, he was often so seriously ill that he received two final unions . He got his first bike at the age of eight and began "training" by riding the Birmingham to Gloucester route more often , which was around 100 miles. He drove his first race at the age of 17, a 25-mile individual time trial, which he won even though he was late at the start for ignorance of the rules and the time lost was credited to him.

1966 was Webb member of the team that the British Championships in the team pursuit , won two days later he set several records on the velodrome Salford Park in Birmingham. In 1967 he and his wife moved to the Netherlands , settled in Hilversum and worked there as a bicycle mechanic. In the same year he became amateur world champion in road racing in Heerlen, Netherlands .

In 1968 Graham Webb turned professional and initially rode for the French cycling team Mercier-BP-Hutchinson together with Raymond Poulidor and Jean Stablinski . However, he remained without major success, even when he moved to the Belgian team Pull Over Centrale in 1969. At the end of the 1969 season he ended his professional career because he no longer received a contract offer for a cycling team.

He opened a restaurant and later worked as a crane operator in Ghent . After not doing cycling for 16 years, he became Belgian champion in two-man team driving , sprint and omnium in 1988 and 1989 .

Webb lived in Wachtebeke in Belgium. In 2009 he was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame .

literature

Web links

Commons : Graham Webb  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edmond Hood: Goodbye Former World Champion, Graham Webb. In: PEZCyclingNews.com. May 28, 2017, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  2. ^ Graham Webb. In: deWielersite.net. June 4, 2017, Retrieved June 4, 2017 (Dutch).
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 22/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 6 .
personal data
SURNAME Webb, Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2017
Place of death Eastwood , Nottinghamshire , England , UK