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| Full name | John Ephraim Sibbit | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Jack | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | born 3 April 1895 Ancoats, Manchester |
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| Died | died 5 August 1950 | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1919-1938 | Manchester Wheelers' Club | ||||||||||||||||
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John Ephraim Sibbit (Jack Sibbit) (3 April 1895[1] – 5 August 1950 (or November[2]) was a British track cyclist who won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
By the age of 41 he had held twelve National titles including Tandem sprints along with Dennis Horn.[2]
Jack Sibbit built, rode and sold his own range of high quality 'Jack E Sibbit' bicycles from his premises at 475 Stockport Road, Manchester.
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Sibbit was the son of a butcher from Ancoats in Manchester.[2]
Sibbit began racing in 1919 when he joined the Manchester Wheelers' Club. He won his first national championship in 1922, the National 5-mile track championship.[2][3]
In 1925 and 1927 he was National Quarter Mile Champion and in 1929 he was the National 25-mile Champion.[2][3]
The 1,000 yard National Sprint Championship was introduced in 1930, and Sibbit was victorious in the following two years, 1931 and 1932.[2][3]
He won the National Tandem Championships six times - in 1924, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932.[3] (or eight times.[2]) Sibbit rode as the 'tandem captain' with multiple partners, E. H. Chambers was his stoker for five of the National Championship victories.[2][3] His other National tandem partners were A.White (Scunthorpe), Dennis Horn (Norwich) and E.W.Higgins (Manchester).[2]
He held three British tandem track records with E.H.Chambers, and they won a silver medal in the Olympic Games tandem event in 1928.[2][3]
He participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.[2]
By the age of 41 he had held twelve National titles including Tandem sprints along with Dennis Horn.[2]
From 1922, Sibbit represented great Britain in seven world championships in England, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.[3]
He retired from racing competition in 1938 and became a cycling official. He was British Team Manager for the 1948 and 1949 World Championships in Holland and Denmark.[2]
Later in his career he rode bicycles that bore his own name. Sibbit bicycles became internationally popular and were ridden by people such as Reg Harris. The badge stated 'Jack E Sibbit 475 Stockport Rd Manchester'.[4]
Sibbit worked for the Ford Motor Company during the Second World War, but he resumed making hand-made cycles from 1946 until his death in November 1950 at the age of 55.[2]
Sibbit's achievements were celebrated in 1932 when Cycling Weekly awarded him his own page in the Golden Book of Cycling.[3]