Keith Butler

Keith Stanley Butler (born September 2, 1938 in London - † March 13, 2019 ibid) was an English cyclist and later a cycling official.

Athletic career

As an amateur, Keith Butler won stages of the Milk Race in 1961 and 1963 . In 1963 he was also with the team of his club, the "Norwood Paragon Cycling Club" , British champion in the team time trial . In 1961 he was fourth in the CSSR tour. In his amateur days he worked as a clerk in London.

1964 Butler turned pro and won the British road racing championship; In 1965 he took third place. Until 1967 he started for various professional teams from Germany , Belgium , France and Great Britain. In 1965 he drove as a water carrier in the team of Tom Simpson and briefly in that of Jacques Anquetil . He started in 1965 in Lasarte, Spain at the road world championships for the British national team and finished the race in 51st place.

Keith Butler founded the Surrey Cycle Racing League in 1974 , which organizes around 170 road races in southern England every year. He was the supervisor of the British national team as well as professional teams on the continent.

Honors

In 2009 Butler was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame .

Familiar

His father Stan took part in the street races at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and finished fourth in the individual race. His son Gethin was a successful amateur racing driver in the 1990s .

Web links

• Keith Butler in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, Rude Pravo, Tribuna Ludu (ed.): XV Course de la Paix Bulletin 4 . Berlin 1962, p. 1 .
2. ^ Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championships . Covadonga, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 220 .