Thomas Summersgill

Thomas Summersgill (* before 1898, † after 1951) was an English cyclist and world champion.

Thomas Summersgill was the first Englishman to win a world championship in cycling: at the track cycling world championships in Montreal in 1899 , he won the amateur sprint title . The year before, he had taken third place behind the two German drivers Paul Albert and Ludwig Opel at the World Railroad Championships in Vienna . In 1900 he resigned from active cycling.

Exact dates of life of Summersgill are not known. An entry in the "Golden Book of Cycling", which Summersgill personally signed in 1951, shows that he was from Leeds and had won numerous races in his native Yorkshire . In 1895 he was Irish and in 1897 English champion over the mile , in 1898 English champion over the quarter mile. Outside the cycling season, the versatile athlete was active as a rugby player for the Yorkshire team.

Web links

Thomas Summersgill in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

^ Outing , Volume 35, p. 542
↑ Thomas Summersgill on thepedalclub.org ( memento of April 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 27, 2011 (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Summersgill, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Summersgill, Tom (short name); Summersgill, Tommy (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English cyclist and world champion
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1898
DATE OF DEATH	after 1951

[1] Outing , Volume 35, p. 542

[2] Thomas Summersgill on thepedalclub.org ( memento of April 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 27, 2011 (English)