British Best All-Rounder

British Best Allrounder ( BBAR ) is an annual competition in the UK, which is organized by the Association of Cycling Time Trials. It is in several individual time trials, the average speed of the driver identified and evaluated.

Nature of the competition

The Best All- Rounder competition British draw up a table of cyclists using the average rates that they achieve at ITT. For men, the races run over 50 and 100 miles and about twelve hours for women (since 1948) on 25, 50 and miles. There are similar competitions for under 18 year olds and for teams of three. The races will take place between April and September.

Men (35 km ) drive faster than 22 miles, received an award, women when they faster than 20 miles ( 32.25 km ) per hour were traveling. In Junior Men and Junior Women speeds will be awarded 21 miles ( 33.9 km ) faster than 23 miles ( 37 km ) respectively. Competitions that are similar to BBAR are discharged at the local level or in the Masters class.

History

The BBAR was first announced on April 4, 1930 by the magazine Cycling. The price was 26 pounds and endowed a trophy for the winning team.

Time trials were the foundation stones of the British cycling since the then British Cycling Federation National Cyclists' Union ( NCU) was prohibited in 1888 road race. This was due to the reluctance of the police, of which the NCU afraid she would keep cyclists from cycling race in the future on public roads. The NCU promoted track racing, but the cycle tracks were often too far away. Thus began local associations to organize time trials. The time trial on the road was a discipline that is famous in the UK to this day special Popularity Through this development.

For British Cyclists time trials were considered to be most genuine form of competition, without the tactic of mass start races. But there was no reliable way to find out who was the best all-rounder of all trips during the season because the driver could not participate in all races. The BBAR solved this problem because this competition would allow a driver to drive against the clock where they wanted, and were able to leave their rides then register. The cycling historian Bernard Thompson: "It was probably the best thing did Has ever happened to British time -trial sport, even to this day. " ( German: " It was probably the best thing that could the British Individual Time Driving happen even to today. " )

From 1939 to 1943, the competition was not held. From 1944 he was no longer carried out by cycling, but from a time-trial Association, the Road Time Trials Council ( RTTC ), now Cycling Time Trials. At that time the British cycling conflict was marked. The NCU, which had indeed forbidden road race, was beset by a new association, the British League of Racing Cyclists ( BLRC ). Cycling and the RTTC make first sentiment against this new association, as they were convinced that mass start race as a whole would hurt the sport of cycling. The chief editor of Cycling, Harry England, however, was so incensed that the RTTC had taken over the competition that he changed sides and then on the BLRC supported journalism.

The first winner

First winner of the BBAR was of the South London Frank Southall, who started for the Norwood Paragon Club. He reached an average of 21.141 miles per hour ( = 34.023 km ) e and also won the next three years. After his fourth win a row in 1933 followed 7,000 people, as he was honored at the Royal Albert Hall and enlisted in the Golden Book of Cycling.

List of winners

The men's competition was won eleven times by Kevin Dawson and nine times out of Ian Cammish. For many years, the women's competition was dominated by Beryl Burton, which was 1959-1983 25 times the female British Best All- Rounder and also in a few years achieved better performance than the men. Julia Shaw won the award four times and June Pitchford three times.