Colin Sturgess

Colin Sturgess

Personal information
Born	(1968-12-15) 15 December 1968 Ossett, Wakefield, England[1]
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport	Cycling
Club	Team Haverhill
Medal record Competitor for  United Kingdom Track World Championships 1989 Lyon Individual pursuit 1991 Stuttgart Individual pursuit Competitor for  England Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team pursuit

Colin Andrew Sturgess (born 15 December 1968) is a retired English road and track cyclist who was active between 1986 and 2000. On track, he won one gold and one bronze medals in the individual pursuit at the world championships in 1989 and 1991. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the 4 km individual pursuit and finished in fourth place.^[2] On the road, he won the British National Road Race Championships in 1990.^[3] In 2010 he was inducted to the British Cycling Hall of Fame.

Sturgess was born in Ossett, Wakefield, England, though his parents are from London. When he was six, his family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa.^[1]

Sturgess turned professional after the 1988 Olympics. He had interrupted his career around 1993, when he graduated in literature from the Loughborough University and moved with his partner to Sydney, Australia. In Australia, he resumed competing, while working as a sports journal editor, and later returned to England.^[4] He finally retired in 2000, after winning a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and worked as a wine maker and wine educator near Sydney.^[5]

References

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's individual pursuit 1946: Gerard Peters 1947: Fausto Coppi 1948: Gerrit Schulte 1949: Fausto Coppi 1950–51: Antonio Bevilacqua 1952–53: Sid Patterson 1954–56: Guido Messina 1957–59: Roger Rivière 1960–61: Rudi Altig 1962: Henk Nijdam 1963: Leandro Faggin 1964: Ferdinand Bracke 1965–66: Leandro Faggin 1967: Tiemen Groen 1968: Hugh Porter 1969: Ferdinand Bracke 1970: Hugh Porter 1971: Dirk Baert 1972–73: Hugh Porter 1974–75: Roy Schuiten 1976: Francesco Moser 1977–78: Gregor Braun 1979: Bert Oosterbosch 1980: Tony Doyle 1981–82: Alain Bondue 1983: Steele Bishop 1984–85: Hans-Henrik Ørsted 1986: Tony Doyle 1987: Hans-Henrik Ørsted 1988: Lech Piasecki 1989: Colin Sturgess 1990: Viatcheslav Ekimov 1991: Francis Moreau 1992: Mike McCarthy 1993: Graeme Obree 1994: Chris Boardman 1995: Graeme Obree 1996: Chris Boardman 1997–98: Philippe Ermenault 1999: Robert Bartko 2000: Jens Lehmann 2001: Alexander Symonenko 2002: Brad McGee 2003: Bradley Wiggins 2004: Sergi Escobar 2005–06: Robert Bartko 2007–08: Bradley Wiggins 2009–10: Taylor Phinney 2011: Jack Bobridge 2012–13: Michael Hepburn 2014: Alexander Edmondson 2015: Stefan Küng