Peter Buckley

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Peter Buckley Road cycling
To person
Date of birth August 2, 1944
date of death 4th July 1969
nation United Kingdom
discipline Road cycling
Societies)
Manx Road Club
Oldham Century Road Club
Most important successes

Commonwealth Games
1966 goldroad race

Peter Buckley (born August 2, 1944 , Isle of Man - † July 4, 1969 in Leeds ) was a cyclist from the Isle of Man. At the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston in 1966 , he won the gold medal in road cycling .

Since 1964 Peter Buckley started successfully in domestic amateur races . In 1966 he won the road race at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, where he started for the Isle of Man. He set a record over 120 miles with 5 hours, 7 minutes and 52 seconds, which is still in place today. It was the first Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games for an Isle of Man athlete (the second was won by Mark Cavendish in 2006 in scratch on the track ). In 1967 he was runner-up in the national road racing championships for amateurs . In the same year he won the British Star Trophy , the Tour of the Lakes and the Tour of the Peak . In 1967 he won the overall ranking of the French Circuit de Saône-et-Loire and the following year the Scottish Milk Race . In May 1969, he finished third in the Milk Race . Also in 1969 he won the Isle of Man International (also Manx Trophy) race , which was the most important international amateur race in Great Britain at the time.

A few weeks later, Buckley fatally fell while training because he was handicapped by a dog running free.

In his honor, the trophy for the winner of the British road racing series for juniors, Peter Buckley Trophy, was named.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cga.im ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cga.im
  2. ^ History . Manx Road Club. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Gold medal cyclist dies , The Guardian, July 5, 1969 (p.2).
  4. ↑ 2010 Junior Men National Road Race Series on britishcycling.org.uk

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personal data
SURNAME Buckley, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist (Isle of Man)
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Isle of Man
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1969
Place of death Oldham