Norman Sheil

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Norman Sheil Road cycling
To person
Full name Norman Leslie Sheil
Date of birth October 22, 1932
date of death October 25, 2018
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
End of career 1963
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
1955, 1958 World Champion - chase
Last updated: October 31, 2018

Norman Leslie Sheil (born October 22, 1932 in Liverpool , † October 25, 2018 in Niagara-on-the-Lake , Canada ) was an English cyclist and two-time world champion in track cycling .

Cycling career

In 1948, at the age of 16, Norman Sheil, who started for the Liverpool club "Phoenix", won his first race. From 1950 he served as a soldier for two years without any opportunity for training. Two years later, in 1954, he finished third in the single pursuit at the World Track Championships in Cologne and won this discipline at the 1954 Commonwealth Games . In 1955 he won the world title in pursuit in Milan and was able to repeat this success in 1958 . He won the renowned Curacho Pursuit Trophy (the most important race in the single pursuit in Great Britain at the time) from 1955 to 1957. He won a total of seven World Championship medals during his career. Also in 1958 he won again at the Commonwealth Games . Sheil also won numerous national titles and set British records.

In 1960 Sheil joined the professionals. In 1960 he took part in the Tour de France in the same team as Jacques Anquetil , but had to give up after a serious fall. In 1963 he ended his active cycling career. In 1998 he was once again world champion in his age group in the " Masters " in the points race .

Career as a coach

From 1965 to 1973 Norman Sheil was the British national coach, from 1978 to 1982 he worked as a coach for the Canadian Cycling Federation and in 1989 for the United States. Most recently he was the race director of the Ottawa Bicycle Club.

Sheil died in October 2018 at the age of 86 in his home town in Canada.

Honors

In 1956, Sheil was included in the Golden Book of Cycling in Great Britain .

In 1973 the “ Verein Deutsche Sportpresse ” (VDS) honored Norman Sheil and the drivers of the British four-wheeler with the “Fair Play Trophy” donated by Max Schmeling , as journalists believe that the British were at the UCI World Railroad Championships in 1973 had behaved in an exemplary manner in San Sebastián : In the final of the World Cup, the German four-man was promisingly ahead of the British when the four drivers were hindered by a steward who was standing on the track and fell badly. The competition committee initially declared the British foursome world champion. The British drivers, however, refused to accept the gold medal and the German foursome was eventually awarded the world title. Sheil and the British four-wheeler were guests of honor at the gala for the athlete of the year award in Baden-Baden and were honored separately.

successes

train

1954

1955

1958

1959

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom British champion - one's pursuit

Street

1957

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom British Champion - Individual Time Trial

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Legendary British Racer and Canadian Coach Norman Sheil Passes Away. In: Pedal Magazine. October 27, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  2. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 2/1958 . Berlin, S. 5 .
  3. ↑ Norman Sheil. In: thepedalclub.org. Retrieved October 31, 2018 .
  4. ^ Cycling , December 12, 1973
personal data
SURNAME Sheil, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sheil, Norman Leslie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2018
Place of death Niagara-on-the-Lake