Mike Gambrill
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| Born | 23 August 1935 Brighton, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 January 2011 (aged 75) Kingston-upon-Thames, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||
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| Rider type | Endurance | ||||||||||||||
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Michael John Gambrill (23 August 1935 – 8 January 2011) was a British track cyclist.[1]
Biography
He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. At the 1956 Games he won a bronze medal in the Men's Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres.
He represented the England team[2] in the 4,000 metres individual pursuit at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.[3][4]
Gambrill died at the age of 75 on 8 January 2011.
References
- ↑ "Mike Gambrill". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Empire Games Road Team". Leicester Daily Mercury. 13 May 1958. p. 20. Retrieved 9 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ↑ "1958 Athletes". Team England.
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- Olympic bronze medalists in cycling
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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- 20th-century English sportsmen
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