Frank Southall

William Frank Southall ( born July 2, 1904 in Wandsworth, † April 5 1964 in Hayling Iceland ) was a British racing cyclist.

At age 17, Frank Southall ran his first race. He became one of the most outstanding and versatile cyclists of Great Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Four times in a row he won the title "British Best All- Rounder ", an annual ranking for cyclists who took part in individual time trials over various distances, and set multiple national records.

1928 started Southall at the Olympics in Amsterdam and won two silver medals in the individual road race and in the team standings. Four years later he again took part in the Olympic Games. In Los Angeles, he was fourth in the road race, the team finished sixth. He also competed in the team pursuit on the track and won jointly with Ernest Johnson, William Harvell and Charles Holland the bronze medal. Multiple drove Frank Southall also at UCI Road World Championships; at the UCI Road World Championships 1926 in Milan, he finished in eleventh place in the road race in the Amateur and 1931 he was in Copenhagen seventh.

, 1938, Frank Southall, a skilled plasterer, as a professional for the Hercules Cycle and Motor Company. After a year he ended his active career in sports, took a job in sales at Hercules and managed for the company and female cyclists.

1932 Southall was included in the Golden Book of Cycling.