Hi Jerry,
Graham Webb [Great Britain] won the 1967 world amateur road champs [same day as Beryl Burton won the ladies]
I have the actual Brooks pro saddle Graham used that day to win his title!
cheers
Kevin Sayles
Bridgwater Somerset UK
<burl.simon@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [CR] happy birthday tom simpson - Now amateur world champions
My only uncertainty is if some other Brit may have won the mens amateur road race. Most net searches will turn up a history of world professional champions, but for a number of years there was an amateur road championship as well. Merckx won it before turning pro, and it was still being held in 1974 when I attend the Worlds in Montreal, with a Pole named Kowalski winning as I recall. At some point, I think the amateur event was eliminated and the Pro race redesignated "Elite". Then in I think 1996, the under 23 road race was established, perhaps intended to include some of the riders who in the past would have contested the amateur title.
Anyone have a link to the history of the amateur road championships and a list of its champions?
Regards,
Jerry Moos
--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [CR] happy birthday tom simpson
> To: "Dale Brown" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Burl Simon"
> <burl.simon@gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 2:05 PM
> Well, Simpson was the first MALE Brit
> to win the world road race championship, in 1965.
> Beryl won the world championship road race in 1960 and 1967
> as well as five world titles in pursuit on the track.
>
> Unless I'm forgetting someone, Simpson was not only the
> first, but the only male Brit to win the world road race
> championship. Irishmen don't count. (Well they
> count, but not as Brits.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA
>
> --- On Mon, 11/30/09, Burl Simon <burl.simon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Burl Simon <burl.simon@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [CR] happy birthday tom simpson
> > To: "Dale Brown" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 12:46 PM
> > happy birthday to tom simpson who
> > would be 72 today if he had not passed
> > away on mt. ventoux during the 1967 tour. simpson was
> the
> > first brit to wear
> > the yellow jersey in the tdf and the first brit to win
> the
> > world
> > championship road race. he may be one the two best
> cyclists
> > ever from great
> > britain with the other being arguably beryl burton.
> > burl simon
> > in a chilly detroit, michigan u.s.a. on 11.30.2009