| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Bruce William Biddle | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 November 1948 (1948-11-02) (age 77) Warkworth, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | Magniflex[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Cuneo–Bonetto | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Sanson | ||||||||||||||
| 1978 | Gis Gelati | ||||||||||||||
| 1979 | Mecap–Selle Italia | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| One-day races and Classics | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bruce William Biddle (born 2 November 1948) is a formerroad racing cyclist from New Zealand, who was a professional rider from 1974 to 1979. He won the gold medal in the men's individual road race at the1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Biddle won the gold medal in the men's individual road race at the1970 Commonwealth Games. This was the first gold medal by a New Zealander in the road race at theCommonwealth Games.[2] Following the race he spent the next season in England.[3]
He represented his native country at the1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where he came fourth in themen's individual road race. AlthoughJaime Huelamo from Spain, who came third, was disqualified for failing a drug test, the bronze medal was not awarded to Biddle as he had not been tested for drugs.[4][5] There was an attempt in 2002 to try to get Biddle his Bronze medal it was not successful. But his first race following the Olympic games, in Tuscany, he was awarded a gold medal.[6]
In 1973 he won thePiccolo Giro di Lombardia, the under-23 version of theUCI WorldTour raceGiro di Lombardia.[3]
In 1979 Biddle was run over by a lorry and it look him many months to retire. This crash was one of the reasons he retired from the sport at the end of the year.[3]
Road race, National Road Championships
Road race,Commonwealth Games
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