Lloyd Binch

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Lloyd Binch (born March 28, 1931 in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire , † December 15, 2016 there ) was a cyclist from Great Britain . He was active as a railroad sprinter .

Athletic career

Binch initially had doubts whether a cycling career was the right thing for him, as he was wearing glasses. In 1951 he had his first notable success in "The White Hope Sprint Race", the traditional sprint competition for young British sprinters .

After moving from the junior to the amateur class, he was British sprint champion between 1955 and 1961. He won the most important international race in its specialty on British soil, the “Champions of the Champions Trophy” (held on Good Friday on the Olympic track in London's Herne Hill ), from 1956 to 1958. His first start at the UCI He had world championships in 1952 and was always in the title fights until 1959, but never got further than the quarter-finals. At the Olympic Games in Rome in the summer of 1960 , he also started in the track sprint. He placed fifth. At the Commonwealth Games he entered in 1958 and finished third.

Binch often started in Germany . Here he won u. a. 1959 the Berlin Grand Prix on the bicycle race track in Weißensee in front of his compatriot Karl Barton . A year later he won the international championship of Berlin in the sprint in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle against Andre Gruchet . In 1954 he won the Copenhagen Grand Prix , one of the most important sprinting tournaments , in the amateur class.

In his last active year 1962 he was third again in the British Sprint Championships. After the end of the season, he ended his sporting career in the fall of 1962.

Professional

By profession he was a salesman in a London bicycle shop that primarily dealt with racing equipment.

Private

Already in 1952 he was scheduled to take part in the Games in Melbourne , but he could not go to the start because he had previously caused a car accident and had to serve a prison sentence. The penalty for misleading the court was so severe that although he had pleaded guilty to the accident, a female companion without a license was sitting at the wheel of his car.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Lloyd Binch. In: Legacy.com. Accessed March 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (ed.): Cycling Week . No. 4/1958 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1958, p. 5 .
  3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 45/1962 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1962, p. 13 .
personal data
SURNAME Binch, Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kimberley, Nottinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 2016
Place of death Kimberley, Nottinghamshire