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| Born | (1949-03-18) 18 March 1949 (age 75) UK | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider (retired) Team Director | ||||||||||||||
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| Gloucester City CC | |||||||||||||||
| City of Stoke ACCS | |||||||||||||||
| GS Strada | |||||||||||||||
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| ANC–Halfords | |||||||||||||||
| CandiTV-Marshalls Pasta | |||||||||||||||
| Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta | |||||||||||||||
| Motorpoint | |||||||||||||||
| Velosure–Giordana | |||||||||||||||
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| Milk Race, 1 Stage | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Phil Griffiths (born 18 March 1949) is an English former racing cyclist from Stone, Staffordshire.
Cycling career
He rode for Great Britain in the Olympic Games, and represented England winning a silver medal in the road race, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. Four years later he represented England in the road race and individual pursuit, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
He is one of the few British riders to have held the yellow jersey in the Peace Race.
Cycling management
He is currently the Team Director of Velosure–Giordana and previously managed ANC–Halfords which was the first British-based professional team to enter the Tour de France.
Palmarès
- 1971
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 3rd Tour of the Cotswolds
- 1972
2nd British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)- 1973
- 3rd Archer Grand Prix
- 1st Overall, Premier Calendar
- 30th Overall, Peace Race
- 3rd stage 2, Peace Race
- 6th stage 4, Peace Race
on stage 4
- 1974
Commonwealth Games, Road Race- 3rd Overall, Premier Calendar
- 2nd Tour of the Cotswolds
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 1975
- 2nd British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)
- 1st Overall, Premier Calendar
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 1976
- DNF Olympic Games, Road race
- 6th Olympic Games, Team Time Trial (100km)
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 3rd British National Road Race Championships (Amateur)
- 1977
- 3rd Lincoln GP
- 1978
- 29th Commonwealth Games, Road Race
- QF Commonwealth Games, 4000m Individual pursuit, Track
- 1st Archer Grand Prix
- 1st stage 4, Girvan
- 1st prologue, Milk Race
- 1979
- 14th GP des Nations
- 1st British Best All-Rounder
References
- "Phil Griffiths Olympic Statistics". September 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- "1974 Games". Team England.
- "Athletes, 1974 England team". Team England. - "1978 Athletes". Team England.
- "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. - "Energetic Brit takes Yellow – 1973 Peace Race". September 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
- "Node4 Pro Cycling Management Team". September 2012. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- "Wide Eyed and Legless Revisited". September 2012. Archived from the original on 25 December 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
External links
- "Cycle Base".
- Phil Griffiths at Cycling Archives (archived)
- 1949 births
- Living people
- English male cyclists
- British male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Directeur sportifs
- People from Stone, Staffordshire
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games