Graham Webb

Graham Webb
Graham Webb in 1967
Personal information
Full nameGraham Paul Webb
NicknameBlack Raven
Born(1944-01-13)13 January 1944
England, United Kingdom
Died28 May 2017(2017-05-28) (aged 73)
Team information
DisciplineTrack & Road
RoleRider
Professional teams
1968Mercier – BP – Hutchinson
1969Pull Over Centrale – Tasmania[1]
Major wins
World Amateur RR Champion
Several national records
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  United Kingdom
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1967 Heerlen Amateur's Road Race

Graham Paul Webb[2] (13 January 1944 – 28 May 2017)[3] was an English racing cyclist who became the world amateur road race champion in 1967. In response to a journalist's shouted comment that the last British amateur world road champion had been Dave Marsh 45 years earlier, Webb retorted: "And they'll have to wait another 45 years before another British rider wins."[4] Not only did no British man win a world road race championship in the following 45 years, but none can now win the amateur championship as the segregation between amateur and professional cycling no longer exists.

  1. ^ Graham Webb at Cycling Archives (archived)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference r1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Obituary: Former world champion Graham Webb – 1944-2017
  4. ^ Interview, Procycling March 2007

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