Ernie Crutchlow
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Full name | Ernest Crutchlow | |||||||||||||
Born | Nuneaton, England | 6 November 1948|||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||
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Ernest Crutchlow (born 6 November 1948) is a British former international cyclist.
Career[]
He competed in the sprint event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.[1]
He represented England in the 1,000 metres match sprint, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[2][3] Four years later he competed in the match sprint once again and the tandem (in which he won a gold medal) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.[4][5]
He was the British National sprint champion in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973 (amateurs) and 1980 (profs).[6] Crutchlow also won the City of Manchester Grand Prix in 1973.[7]
References[]
- ^ "Ernie Crutchlow Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ^ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1974 Games". Team England.
- ^ "National Championship, Track, Sprint, Elite, Great Britain". Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ "City of Manchester Grand Prix". Retrieved 8 December 2018.
External links[]
- Ernie Crutchlow at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1948 births
- Living people
- British male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Nuneaton
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Cyclists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- British cycling biography stubs