William Fotheringham

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William Fotheringham (born 1965) is a sports writer specialising in cycling and rugby. As a newspaper journalist he writes for The Guardian.[1] Fotheringham was a features editor for Cycling Weekly, the features editor of Cycle Sport and co-founder of Procycling magazine.[1] He is a current writer for .[2]

A graduate of Cambridge University with a degree in French, Russian and Italian, Fotheringham won the IPC Media Specialist Writer of the Year award in 1993 and 1998.[1]

He has been a racing cyclist for nearly 40 years.[2] He is described by Rapha as being "one of the finest writers in the ‘Pro Tour’ pressroom".[3]

His 2012 biography of Eddy Merckx Half-Man, Half-Bike, was the first cycling title to achieve No 1 status in the Sunday Times bestseller lists.

He is the brother of fellow cycling journalist Alasdair Fotheringham.[4]

His most recent books are Sunday in Hell, an account of how iconic director Jorgen Leth made the film of the same name about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix, and The Greatest, the Times and Life of Beryl Burton, a self-published venture.

Books by Fotheringham[]

  • Cycle Racing: How to Train, Race and Win. A. & C. Black. 1996. ISBN 978-0-7136-4540-8.
  • Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson. Yellow Jersey Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-224-06186-5.
  • A Century of Cycling: The Classic Races and Legendary Champions. Motorbooks International. 2003. ISBN 978-0-7603-1553-8.
  • Fotheringham's Sporting Trivia. Sanctuary Publishing Ltd. 2003. ISBN 978-1-86074-510-2.
  • Roule Britannia: A History of Britons in the Tour de France. Yellow Jersey Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-224-07425-4.
  • Fotheringham's Sporting Pastimes. Robson Books Ltd. 2006. ISBN 978-1-86105-953-6.
  • Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi. Jonathan Cape. 2009. ISBN 978-0-224-07447-6.
  • Merckx: Half-Man, Half-Bike. Yellow Jersey Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-224-07448-3.
  • Bradley Wiggins - My Time. Yellow Jersey Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-224-09212-8.
  • Bradley Wiggins - My Time. Yellow Jersey Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-224-09213-5.
  • Racing Hard. Faber and Faber. 2013. ISBN 978-0-571-30363-2.
  • The Badger: Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling. Yellow Jersey Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0224092050.
  • Lizzie Armitstead - Steadfast: My Story. Blink. 2017. ISBN 978-1911274254.
  • Sunday in Hell: Behind the Lens of the Greatest Cycling Film Ever. Yellow Jersey Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0224092029.
  • The Greatest: The Times and Life of Beryl Burton. YouCaxton. 2019. ISBN 978-1-912419-53-1.

As translator[]

  • Voet, Willy (2001). Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling – The True Story. Yellow Jersey Press. ISBN 978-0-224-06056-1.
  • Fignon, Laurent (2010). We Were Young and Carefree. London: Yellow Jersey Press. ISBN 978-0-224-08319-5.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Guardian contacts". The Guardian.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "William Fotheringham". Rouleur Magazine.
  3. ^ "Rouleur Magazine". Rapha.
  4. ^ Cleverly, Ian (4 July 2012). "On the Shelf". Rouleur. Retrieved 16 April 2014.

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