Graham Webb

Graham Webb ( born January 13, 1944 in Birmingham) is a former English racing cyclist and the only British amateur world champion in the road race.

Graham Webb grew up as the youngest of five children of a war widow in the slums of Birmingham. As a child he was often so ill that he received the last rites twice. At the age of eight he got his first bike and began the "Training " by more often the distance from Birmingham to Gloucester which was about 100 miles long was driving. He drove at 17, a 25-mile individual time trial, which he won, even though he had appeared in ignorance of the rules of time at the start and he had been credited by the time lost his first race.

1966 Webb was a member of the team that won the British Championship in the Team Pursuit, two days later he set several records on the velodrome Salford Park in Birmingham. In 1967 he moved with his wife to the Netherlands, settled in Hilversum, where he worked as a bicycle mechanic. In the same year he became world amateur champion in the road race in the Belgian Heerlen.

1968 Graham Webb was professional and first went for the French cycling team Mercier -BP - Hutchinson, along with Raymond and Jean Poulidor Stablinski. However, he remained without major success, as he joined the Belgian team Pull Over Centrale 1969. He opened a restaurant, and later worked in Ghent as a crane operator. After 16 years not done any cycling, he was in 1988 and 1989 Belgian Champion in a two - team driving, as Sprint and Omnium.

Webb lives on today in Belgium, Wachtebeke. In 2009 he was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.