Alan Geldard

After the War, rationing was still a fact of life, but being a member of the 1948 Olympic squad, he received extra monthly food parcels which had been donated by the British Empire nations.He won a bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with David Ricketts, Tommy Godwin and Wilfred Waters.[2][3] Alan was selected to represent England in the 1950 Empire Games in New Zealand: he lost the chance of a medal when he punctured in his event.He was a club coach to two Manchester cycling clubs, Abbotsford Park RC and Altrincham RC: with the latter, he notably trained a group of non-specialist riders (Ian Donohue, Nigel Redmile, Ian Binder and John Herety) to gain silver medal in the National Team Pursuit Championships in both 1979 and 1980.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a United Kingdom Olympic medallist is a stub.
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