John Sibbit
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| Full name | John Ephraim Sibbit | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Jack | ||||||||||||||||||
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3 April 1895 Ancoats, Manchester | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 5 August 1950 (aged 55) | ||||||||||||||||||
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1919-1938 | |||||||||||||||||||
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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 41 he had held 12 national titles including tandem sprints, with Dennis Horn.[2] Jack Sibbit built, rode and sold his own 'Jack E Sibbit' bicycles from premises at 475 Stockport Road, Manchester. Personal lifeSibbit was the son of a butcher from Ancoats in Manchester.[2] CareerCompetitionSibbit began racing in 1919 when he joined the Manchester Wheelers' Club. He won his first national championship in 1922, the 5-mile track .[2][3] In 1925 and 1927 he was quarter-mile champion and in 1929 he was 25-mile champion.[2][3] The 1,000-yard sprint championship was introduced in 1930, and Sibbit won in 1931 and 1932.[2][3] He won the tandem championship six times - in 1924, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932.[3] (or eight times.[2]) Sibbit rode on the front of the tandem; E. H. Chambers was his stoker for five of the national championship victories.[2][3] His other national partners were A. White (Scunthorpe), Dennis Horn (Norwich) and E. W. Higgins (Manchester).[2] Sibbit held three British tandem track records with Chambers. The two won the Olympic tandem event in 1928.[2][3] Sibbit rode in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.[2] By 41 he had held 12 national titles including tandem sprints, with Horn.[2] From 1922, Sibbit represented Britain in world championships in England, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.[3] He retired from racing in 1938 to became an official. He was British team manager at the 1948 and 1949 world championships, in the Netherlands and Denmark.[2] Sibbit bicyclesLater in his career he rode bicycles that bore his own name. Sibbit bicycles were ridden by people such as Reg Harris. The badge stated 'Jack E Sibbit 475 Stockport Rd Manchester'.[4] Sibbit worked for Ford during the second world war and resumed making hand-made cycles from 1946 until his death in November 1950 at 55.[2] CommemorationThe Golden BookSibbit's achievements were celebrated in 1932 with a page in the Golden Book of Cycling.[3] References
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