Jocelyn Lovell
Jocelyn Bjorn Lovell ( born July 19, 1950 in Norwich, England ) is a retired Canadian professional racing cyclist.
Jocelyn Lovell, son of an English father and a Danish mother, was the most popular Canadian cycling star of the 1970s. The success of the applicable uncomfortable athlete made for a cycling boom in Canada. After an accident, he sits in a wheelchair since 1983.
Cycling career
1969 Lovell won the road race Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, but then turned to the more to Track Cycling. In the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1970, he won three medals: gold in the scratch over ten miles, silver in tandem race with Barry Harvey and bronze in the 1000 -meter time trial. The following year he was four-time Canadian champion in the individual pursuit, the sprint, in the 1000 -meter time trial and more than ten miles.
After the UCI Track World Championships 1973 in San Sebastian, the Canadian National Team remained for training in Spain. In the hotel there Lovell stole a box of biscuits from the duty room of the maid, she was distributing to his teammates and told this to the supervisors. Then he was expelled for stealing the team lead for six months. Lovell remained in Europe, turned pro for a year and 1974 Canadian champion in the road race. After he had found that he did not like the life as a professional, he was reamateurisieren, won at the Pan American Games in 1975 the gold medal in the time trial, 1977 Canadian champion in the points race and 1978 in the sprint. In addition, he won a total of ten times the national title in the time trial on the road. 1978 was his most successful year in which he at the Commonwealth Games three gold medals - in the time trial, in tandem race ( with Gordon Singleton ) and the scratch over ten miles - won and also at the UCI Track World Championships in Munich in 1978 Vice World Champion time trial was.
Three times Jocelyn Lovell also took part in the Olympic Games in part, in the dash, the individual time trial and the team pursuit. His best finish was a seventh place in the individual time trial at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.
Honors
1985 Lovell was incorporated into the Canada 's Sports Hall of Fame.
Private
In his first marriage Jocelyn Lovell was married to the cyclist and speed skater Sylvia Burka until the mid- 1980s. In 1983 he was hit by a truck while cycling training, has since been a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair. Lovell, who also makes a wrong treatment responsible for ensuring that he is still paralyzed, is engaged in the Spinal Cord Society, which supports research into spinal cord injuries.