Phil Griffiths (cyclist)
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Born | UK | 18 March 1949|||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
Role | Rider (retired) Team Director | |||||||||||||
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Gloucester City CC | ||||||||||||||
City of Stoke ACCS | ||||||||||||||
GS Strada | ||||||||||||||
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ANC–Halfords | ||||||||||||||
CandiTV-Marshalls Pasta | ||||||||||||||
Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta | ||||||||||||||
Motorpoint | ||||||||||||||
Velosure–Giordana | ||||||||||||||
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Milk Race, 1 Stage | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Phil Griffiths (born 18 March 1949) is a former English racing cyclist from Stone, Staffordshire.
Cycling career[]
He rode for Great Britain in the Olympic Games,[1] and represented England winning a silver medal in the road race, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.[2][3] Four years later he represented England in the road race and individual pursuit, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[4][5]
He is one of the few British riders to have held the yellow jersey in the Peace Race.[6]
Cycling management[]
He is currently the Team Director of Velosure–Giordana[7] and previously managed ANC–Halfords which was the first British-based professional team to enter the Tour de France.[8]
Palmarès[]
- 1971
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 3rd Tour of the Cotswolds
- 1972
- 2nd British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)
- 1973
- 3rd Archer Grand Prix
- 1st Overall, Premier Calendar
- 30th Overall, Peace Race
- 3rd stage 2, Peace Race
- 6th stage 4, Peace Race
- on stage 4
- 1974
- Commonwealth Games, Road Race
- 3rd Overall, Premier Calendar
- 2nd Tour of the Cotswolds
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 1975
- 2nd British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)
- 1st Overall, Premier Calendar
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 1976
- DNF Olympic Games, Road race
- 6th Olympic Games, Team Time Trial (100km)
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 3rd British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)
- 1977
- 3rd Lincoln GP
- 1978
- 29th Commonwealth Games, Road Race
- QF Commonwealth Games, 4000m Individual pursuit, Track
- 1st Archer Grand Prix
- 1st stage 4, Girvan
- 1st prologue, Milk Race
- 1979
- 14th GP des Nations
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
References[]
- ^ "Phil Griffiths Olympic Statistics". September 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "1974 Games". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes, 1974 England team". Team England.
- ^ "1978 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Energetic Brit takes Yellow – 1973 Peace Race". September 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
- ^ "Node4 Pro Cycling Management Team". September 2012. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- ^ "Wide Eyed and Legless Revisited". September 2012.
External links[]
- "Cycle Base".
- Phil Griffiths at Cycling Archives
Categories:
- 1949 births
- Living people
- English male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Directeur sportifs
- People from Stone, Staffordshire
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling