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Cycling at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Cycling at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fourth appearance of Cycling at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July to 7 August 1954.

The track events took place at Empire Oval or Broadway Bowl in China Creek Park, which had been specially constructed wooden track for the Games.

The road race course was described as quite flat, featuring a high point of 360 feet and the highest gradient was 250 feet in 440 yards.

England topped the cycling medal table with three gold medals.

In the sprint final, Lionel Cox of Australia did not receive a medal after refusing to continue the match against Cyril Peacock of England. Cox had been disqualified in race 1 for cutting across Peacock's wheel and subsequently the Australian team refused to participate in the next race and were subsequently disqualified.

Medal table

Medal winners

Results

1 km time trial

1,000m sprint championship

Quarter-final

Semi finals

  • Peacock bt Plog 2–0
  • Cox bt Shardelow 2–

Third place

  • Shardelow bt Ploog 2–1

Final

  • Peacock bt Cox w/o

4,000 metres individual purusit

Qualifiers for quarter-finals

Quarter-finals

  • Sheil bt Law - caught at 4.44.4
  • Brotherton bt Ritchie - 5.12.3
  • Fowler bt Murphy - 5.13.4
  • Pusey bt Mitton - 5.09.5

Semi-finals

  • Sheil bt Fowler - 5.06.4
  • Brotherton bt Pusey 5.14.6

Third place

  • Fowler 5.06.9 bt Pusey 5.08.5

Final

  • Sheil 5.03.5 (world record) bt Brotherton 5.09.1

10 mile scratch race

Road Race

See also

References