Ian Steel

Ian Steel ( born December 28, 1928 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish former racing cyclist.

1946 Ian Steel started cycling. In 1951, he was semi-pro team in the British Viking Cycles. In his first year he won, among others the race Paris -Lens, the Tour of Britain (where he first saw in his life on English soil ) and was Scottish champion in the road race. In 1952 he started with a British team at the International Peace Race and won the overall title, to have won without a single stage victory; The British team won the team classification. In the same year he was British champion in the road race and in the following year, British vice-champion. In 1955 he started at the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France.

The tour ended Steel prematurely after the eighth stage in protest because he was regarded as the strongest and most experienced driver of the British team, should take a helper for Brian Robinson. Generally was the first launch of a British team in the Tour under an unlucky star, because the driver who belonged to various professional teams and associations, quarreled among themselves. The team manager, Syd Cozens, it also lacked a former racing cyclist of experience with such a serious road race; it turned out that both the wheels and the tires were unsuitable. 1956 Steel finished his cycling career.

In the 1990s, Ian Steel was a page in the Golden Book of Cycling. He is the brother of cyclist Bob Thom, the 1949 British road champion.

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