Personal information | |
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Full name | Reginald Athelstane Arnold |
Nationality | Australian |
Born | Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia | 9 October 1924
Died | 23 July 2017 92) Nerang, Queensland, Australia | (aged
Sport | |
Sport | Track cycling |
Updated on 25 July 2017. |
Reginald Athelstane Arnold OAM (9 October 1924 – 23 July 2017) was an Australian racing cyclist.
Arnold's cycling career began in 1941, when his brothers gave him a bicycle for his birthday. Despite being blind in one eye, Arnold joined Ashfield cycling club in Sydney where he made a name for himself as a capable track sprinter, winning several state titles. [1]
After World War II, Arnold competed on the European cycling circuit, and won several races there as well as in American and Australia between 1945 and 1961. [2] In 1952 and 1957, he was a member of the team which won the madison championships (the de facto world title). He specialised in six-day racing and competed in many six-day events around the world. [1]
The madison is a relay race event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the "American race" in French and in Italian and Spanish as Americana.
Six-day cycling is a track cycling event that competes over six days. Six-day races started in Britain, spread to many regions of the world, were brought to their modern style in the United States and are now mainly a European event. Initially, individuals competed alone, the winner being the individual who completed the most laps. However, the format was changed to allow teams, one rider racing while the other rested. The 24-hours a day regime has also been relaxed, so that most six-day races involve six nights of racing, typically from 6pm to 2am, on indoor tracks (velodromes). Recently Six Day events are annually hosted in London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Manchester, Melbourne and Brisbane
In 2000, Arnold was awarded the Australian Sports Medal (ASM) for being part of the world number one team for day cycle races for a number of years. In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to cycling. [2]
The Australian Sports Medal was an award given during 2000 to recognise achievements in Australian sport.
Arnold died on 23 July 2017, aged 92, in Nerang, Queensland. [3]
Nerang is a town and a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 Census, Nerang had a population of 16,256.
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