Tommy Godwin (cyclist born 1920)

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Medal record
Competitor for Great Britain
Track cycling
Olympic Games
Bronze	1948 London	1km time trial
Bronze	1948 London	Team pursuit

For Tommy Godwin the World Endurance Record breaking cyclist , see Tommy Godwin (cyclist born 1912).

Thomas "Tommy" Godwin (born 5 November 1920^[1] in Connecticut, USA) was an English track cyclist during the 1940s and 1950s, who later became a respected cycling coach, manager and administrator.

Godwin won two bronze medals, in the team pursuit (in a team with Robert Geldard, David Ricketts and Wilfrid Waters) and 1km individual time trial, at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London, and a further bronze medal in the 1km event at the 1950 British Empire Games.

From 1936 to 1950, Godwin worked for BSA. For 36 years from 1950 he ran a cycle shop in Silver Street in the Kings Heath district of Birmingham.^[2]

Godwin was manager of the British national cycling team at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, and later served as President of the British Cycling Federation and of the Solihull Cycling Club. He ran the first British training camp in Mallorca and the first track course at Lilleshall, founded the Birmingham RCC, was among the pioneers in training coaches, and trained and mentored a generation of British track riders, many of whom won national and international titles and medals.

His autobiography It Wasn't That Easy: The Tommy Godwin Story was published in 2007 by John Pinkerton Memorial Publishing Fund.^[3]

Tommy is an ambassador for the Olympic Games' return to London in 2012.