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Born | UK | 18 March 1949||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider (retired) Team Director | ||||||||||||||
Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
Gloucester City CC | |||||||||||||||
City of Stoke ACCS | |||||||||||||||
GS Strada | |||||||||||||||
Managerial teams | |||||||||||||||
ANC–Halfords | |||||||||||||||
CandiTV-Marshalls Pasta | |||||||||||||||
Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta | |||||||||||||||
Motorpoint | |||||||||||||||
Velosure–Giordana | |||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
Milk Race, 1 Stage | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Phil Griffiths (born 18 March 1949) is an English former racing cyclist from Stone, Staffordshire.
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] Four years later he represented England in the road race and individual pursuit, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [3]
He is one of the few British riders to have held the yellow jersey in the Peace Race. [4]
He is currently the Team Director of Velosure–Giordana [5] and previously managed ANC–Halfords which was the first British-based professional team to enter the Tour de France. [6]