Donald Burgess
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| Full name | Donald Christopher Burgess | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 February 1933 Hendon, London | |||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
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Donald Christopher "Don" Burgess (born 8 February 1933) is a retired track cyclist from Great Britain, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he won the bronze medal in the men's 4,000 metres team pursuit, alongside Alan Newton, George Newberry, and Ronald Stretton. Burgess also competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and once again won bronze.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Don Burgess". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
External links
[edit]- Donald Christopher Burgess at the British Olympic Committee at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 September 2007)
- Donald Burgess at Olympics.com
- Don Burgess at Cycling Archives (archived)
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- People from Hendon
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