Bruce Biddle
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| Full name | Bruce William Biddle | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 November 1948 (age 75) Warkworth, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| 1974–1975 | Magniflex[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Cuneo–Bonetto | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Sanson | ||||||||||||||
| 1978 | Gis Gelati | ||||||||||||||
| 1979 | Mecap–Selle Italia | ||||||||||||||
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Bruce William Biddle (born 2 November 1948) is a former road racing cyclist from New Zealand, who was a professional rider from 1974 to 1979. He won the gold medal in the men's individual road race at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Career
Biddle won the gold medal in the men's individual road race at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. This was the first gold medal by a New Zealander in the road race at the Commonwealth Games.[2] Following the race he spent the next season in England.[3]
He represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where he came fourth in the men's individual road race. Although Jaime Huelamo from Spain, who came third, was disqualified for failing a drug test, the bronze medal was not awarded to Biddle as he had not been tested for drugs.[4][5] There was an attempt in 2002 to try to get Biddle his Bronze medal it was not successful. But his first race following the Olympic games, in Tuscany, he was awarded a gold medal.[6]
In 1973 he won the Piccolo Giro di Lombardia, the under-23 version of the UCI WorldTour race Giro di Lombardia.[3]
In 1979 Biddle was run over by a lorry and it look him many months to retire. This crash was one of the reasons he retired from the sport at the end of the year.[3]
Major results
- 1969
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Overall Dulux Tour of the North Island
- 1970
- 1st
Road race, Commonwealth Games - 8th Overall Tour of Ireland
- 1st Stages 4 & 8
- 1971
- 2nd, Stage 11 Milk Race
- 3rd Overall Tour of Ireland
- 4th Overall Manx International GP
- 8th Overall Archer GP
- 1972
- 1st GP la Torre
- 4th Road race, Olympic Games
- 1973
- 1st Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Giro delle Valli Aretine
- 2nd Coppa Bologna
- 9th Gran Premio della Liberazione
- 1974
- 3rd Giro del Lazio
- 1975
- 7th GP Benego
- 9th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
- 1976
- 5th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 7th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 8th Giro della Romagna
- 8th GP Montelupo
- 8th Trofeo Baracchi
- 2nd, Stage 7 Tour de Suisse, Lausanne
- 2nd, Stage 8 Tour de Suisse, Solothurn
- 3rd, Stage 5 part b Tirreno - Adriatico
- 1978
- 10th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
References
- ^ "Bruce Biddle Teams". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Road and track: from the mid-20th century". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ a b c Hood, Edmond (31 May 2019). "PEZ Giro Talk: New Zealand's Bruce Biddle". PezCycling News. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Cycling: Biddle injustice to fore again". NZ Herald. 11 December 2002. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Bruce Biddle Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ "Cycling: Biddle's Olympic medal riddle". NZ Herald. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Bruce Biddle". www.cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Bruce Biddle". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "Bruce Biddle". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
External links
- Profile New Zealand Olympic Committee[permanent dead link]
- NZ Herald
- Bruce Biddle at Cycling Archives
- Bruce Biddle at ProCyclingStats
- Bruce Biddle at Olympedia
- Bruce Biddle at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
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