BRITISH CYCLING HALL OF FAME
December 17th, 2009 @ 2:58 PM
British Cycling have announced the names of 50 cycling heroes in a new hall of fame.
First question has to be…where is World Champion Steve Peat?!
Okay I know they state that they “…made a conscious decision not to select elite riders who are still competing at an international level or coaches and managers at the top of their game.” but come on…this is Steve Peat!
50 CYCLING HEROES NAMED IN BRITISH CYCLING HALL OF FAME
British Cycling has today revealed the names of 50 cycling heroes who have been selected for induction into its Hall of Fame to celebrate the organisation’s 50 years as the national governing body for cycling.
Since launching the initiative earlier this year, British Cycling has received over 300 nominations from the public, ranging from male and female riders, coaches and team managers, sport administrators and volunteers to cycling public figures instrumental in progressing the sport.
A Hall of Fame panel, consisting of cycling journalists and British Cycling representatives, has made a unanimous decision to recognise past cycling achievements over current cycling successes to make the first Hall of Fame a tribute to the sport’s and the organisation’s past five decades.
Victoria Pendleton MBE, panel member, said: “We made a conscious decision not to select elite riders who are still competing at an international level or coaches and managers at the top of their game. We also agreed we should recognise administrators and volunteers who have been active in the sport over many years and have made a significant contribution to it during that time. There have also been several posthumous awards.”
British Cycling’s President, Brian Cookson OBE, who chaired the panel, said: “The response we’ve had from the public for the Hall of Fame has been phenomenal and choosing just 50 individuals out of over a hundred proved very challenging. With such a fantastic number of nominations this year we have decided to make the Hall of Fame an annual event to enable us to recognise more recent and current cycling successes.”
The 50 cycling heroes will be officially induced into the British Cycling Hall of Fame when the organisation concludes its 50th year anniversary celebrations at its Gala Dinner, which will be held at Manchester Central on 20 February 2010.
The 50 cycling heroes to be inducted into the 2009 British Cycling Hall of Fame are as follows, arranged alphabetically:
Pat Adams
Caroline Alexander
Brian Annable
David Baker
Sid Barras
Stuart Benstead
Chris Boardman MBE
Bill Bradley
Beryl Burton OBE
Keith Butler
Arthur Campbell MBE
Brian Cossavella
Doug Dailey MBE
Tony Doyle MBE
Ian Emmerson OBE
Malcolm Elliott
Benny Foster OBE
Tim Gould
Eileen Gray CBE
Dave Hemsley
Barry Hoban
Dale Holmes
Mandy Jones
Peter Keen OBE
Peter King CBE
Stan Kite
Phil Liggett MBE
Craig Maclean
Paul Manning MBE
John & Doreen Mallinson
Yvonne McGregor MBE
Gerry McDaid
Jason McRoy
Chas Messenger
George Millar
Robert Millar
Graeme Obree
Hugh Porter MBE
Jason Queally MBE
John Rawnsley
Brian Robinson
Alan Rushton
Tom Simpson
Eddie Soens
Colin Sturgess
Dot Tilbury MBE
Graham Webb
Les West
Sean Yates
Tony Yorke OBE
Members of the 2009 British Cycling Hall of Fame panel include: British Cycling’s President Brian Cookson OBE, Guardian’s Cycling Correspondent William Fotheringham, Cycling Weekly’s Editor Robert Garbutt, current Olympic and World Champion Victoria Pendleton MBE, British Cycling’s Executive Director Peter King CBE and Cycling Commentator Hugh Porter MBE.
For more information about the Hall of Fame please visit www.britishcycling.org.uk.
Tags: BRITISH CYCLING, Hall Of Fame
17 Responses to “BRITISH CYCLING HALL OF FAME”
December 17th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
No Steve Peat in there?
December 17th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
“received over 300 nominations from the public”
“choosing just 50 individuals out of over a hundred”
Which is it BC? And would halving a list really be that difficult?
Good to see JMC on there, I think that it’s fine that Peaty isn’t on there being as he’s still top of his game. He’ll make it into future ones, don’t you worry you lot!
December 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I reckon they are just holding on to spread the love out over the next few years. Having said that, I still think that Peaty should have been in there from the off.
December 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
As the first British rider to win a DH world cup, it would have been good to have seen Rob Warner on there.
December 17th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
no Warner…… cant believe it…
December 17th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Steve is at the top of the podium and this is for retired players. He still has a lot more to give yet.
I only recognise about a 3rd of the names!
Good to see JMC in there. rightly so too.
December 17th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Its fair enough, if those are the rules, those are the rules. Note no Hoy, Wiggo, Brailsford or Cav either. JMc, Caroline Alexander, Tim Gould are on there so Peaty will I’m sure when he decides to hang up is gloves – Hopefully not for a good few years mind!!
Peaty ain’t finished by a long shot the legend is only going to grow – they’d only have to make a new plaque anyway to update his his Palmares!!!
Good to see Dale Holmes in there too. Where is David Baker??? MBUK Groms will all be scratching their heads now…look him up kids.
Expect Athertons x2 or x3 also, but way in the future of course!
December 17th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
No Warner?
December 17th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
i can only assume that at BC they spell warner thus:
MILLER
how strangle
December 17th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
*strange
December 17th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Warner must be gutted
December 17th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
What a load of bollocks!
December 18th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Baker and Gould are on there. Classic!
December 18th, 2009 at 12:34 am
With all due respect (hardly any) Warner isn’t fit to wash Robert Miller’s cacks.
December 18th, 2009 at 3:45 am
what the hell. No stephen murry?
December 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Fantastic to see JMC honoured there – true legend of downhill and the one that really started it and paved the way for Peaty, Warner etc
December 21st, 2009 at 11:56 am
‘Tom Simpson’ the most famous drug induced cycling death of all time!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!????!!!!!!!??????!!!!! I know it was traggic and that road riding goes hand in hand with drug cheating (try seriously denying it!). I know British Cycling are horribly skinny tire biased (again,try seriously denying it!) but please.
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