Eddie Alexander
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| Full name | Edward Alexander | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 August 1964 Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Eddie Alexander (born 10 August 1964)[1] is a Scottish former cyclist and a multiple national champion on the track in the tandem sprint.
Early life
[edit]He worked at the CEGB in Barnwood in Gloucestershire, and lived Abbeymead.[2]
Cycling career
[edit]He won a bronze medal in the sprint at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. He was fourth in the sprint at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.[3]
Alexander is a six times British track champion, winning the British National Individual Sprint Championships in 1987 and 1988, the British National Individual Time Trial Championships in 1985 and 1987 and the British National Tandem Sprint Championships in 1987 and 1988.[4]
Palmarès
[edit]- 1985
- 1st Kilo, British National Individual Time Trial Championships
- 1986
- 3rd
Sprint, Commonwealth Games
- 1987
- 1st British National Tandem Sprint Championships
- 1st British National Individual Sprint Championships
- 1st Kilo, British National Individual Time Trial Championships
- 1988
- 1st British National Tandem Sprint Championships
- 1st British National Individual Sprint Championships
- 4th Sprint, Olympic Games
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Olympic Profile". Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2008.
- ^ Gloucester News Thursday 15 September 1988, page 27
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eddie Alexander Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ^ "Profile and record". Cycling Archives.
External links
[edit]- Eddie Alexander at Cycling Archives (archived)
Categories:
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Scottish male cyclists
- British male cyclists
- Scottish track cyclists
- British track cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- People from Huntly
- Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
- Sportspeople from Aberdeenshire
- Sportspeople from Gloucester
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games