Cycling at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Cycling at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
VenueEmpire Oval, China Creek Park, Vancouver
Dates30 July – 7 August 1954

Cycling at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fourth appearance of Cycling at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July to 7 August 1954.[1]

The track events took place at Empire Oval or Broadway Bowl in China Creek Park,[2] which had been specially constructed wooden track for the Games.[3][4]

The road race course was described as quite flat, featuring a high point of 360 feet and the highest gradient was 250 feet in 440 yards.[5]

England topped the cycling medal table with three gold medals.[6][7]

In the sprint final, Lionel Cox of Australia did not receive a medal after refusing to continue the match against Cyril Peacock of England. Cox had been disqualified in race 1 for cutting across Peacock's wheel and subsequently the Australian team refused to participate in the next race and were subsequently disqualified.[8][9]

Broadway Bowl track cycling during the games.
Attribution:Province newspaper

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 England (ENG)3227
2 Australia (AUS)2002
3 South Africa1023
4 New Zealand (NZL)0101
5 Wales0011
6 British Guiana (BGU)0000
 Canada*0000
 Pakistan (PAK)0000
 Scotland (SCO)0000
 Southern Rhodesia (SRH)0000
Totals (10 entries)63514

Medal winners

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Time trial  Dick Ploog (AUS)  Keith Harrison (ENG)
 Alfred Swift (SAF)
Sprint  Cyril Peacock (ENG) +not awarded  Tom Shardelow (SAF)
Individual pursuit  Norman Sheil (ENG)  Peter Brotherton (ENG)  Robert Fowler (SAF)
10 Miles scratch  Lindsay Cocks (AUS)  Keith Harrison (ENG)  Don Skene (WAL)
Road race  Eric Thompson (ENG)  John Baird (NZL)  Bernard Pusey (ENG)

Results

1 km time trial

Pat Murphy of Canada.
Attribution:Province newspaper
Rank Rider Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Australia Dick Ploog 1:12.5
1st place, gold medalist(s) South Africa Alfred Swift 1:12.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) England Keith Harrison 1:12.7
4 England Peter Brotherton 1:12.8
5 England Cyril Peacock 1:13.0
6 New Zealand Colin Dickinson 1:13.2
7 South Africa Ron Robertson 1:13.7
8 Australia Lindsay Cocks 1:13.8
9 Canada Jim Davies 1:14.1
10 Canada Patrick Murphy 1:14.5
11 Australia Lionel Cox 1:14.6
12 New Zealand Neil Ritchie 1:15.3
13 Southern Rhodesia John van Wyk 1:15.7
14 Canada André Robert 1:15.8
15 Southern Rhodesia Ernest Branfield 1:15.9
16 New Zealand Les Lock 1:16.1
17 Wales Don Skene 1:16.2
18 Wales Malcolm Campbell 1:20.0
19 Pakistan Muhammad Naqi Mallick 1:22.0
20 Pakistan Ghulam H. Baloch 1:23.9
21 Wales Philip Waring 1:23.9
22 Pakistan Mahmood Saleem Farooqi 1:26.9

1,000m sprint championship

Quarter-final

Athlete Athlete Score
South Africa Tom Shardelow Canada Jim Davies 2–0
Australia Lionel Cox New Zealand Colin Dickinson 2–0
England Cyril Peacock South Africa Alfred Swift 2–1
Australia Dick Ploog England Keith Harrison 2–1

Semi finals

  • Peacock bt Plog 2–0
  • Cox bt Shardelow 2–

Third place

  • Shardelow bt Ploog 2–1

Final

  • Peacock bt Cox w/o

4,000 metres individual purusit

[10] Qualifiers for quarter-finals

Athlete Time
England Norman Sheil 5.10.4
South Africa Robert Fowler 5.10.8
South Africa Ron Mitton 5.12.2
England Peter Brotherton 5.13.2
England Bernard Pusey 5.16.7
New Zealand Neil Ritchie 5.21.4
Canada Patrick Murphy 5.21.5
Australia John William Law 5.22.8

Quarter-finals

  • Sheil bt Law - caught at 4.44.4
  • Brotherton bt Ritchie - 5.12.3
  • Fowler bt Murphy - 5.13.4
  • Pusey bt Mitton - 5.09.5

Semi-finals

  • Sheil bt Fowler - 5.06.4
  • Brotherton bt Pusey 5.14.6

Third place

  • Fowler 5.06.9 bt Pusey 5.08.5

Final

  • Sheil 5.03.5 (world record) bt Brotherton 5.09.1

10 mile scratch race

Scratch race in progress.
Attribution:Province newspaper
Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Lindsay Cocks 2.44.08
2 England Keith Harrison
3 Wales Don Skene
4 Canada Lorne Atkinson
5 New Zealand Les Lock
6 England Eric Thompson
- Australia Dick Ploog
- Canada B. Henderson
- Canada Fred Markus
- England Norman Sheil
- New Zealand Colin Dickinson
- New Zealand Neil Ritchie
- Pakistan Mahmood Saleem Farooqi
- Pakistan Muhammad Naqi Mallick
- Pakistan Ghulam H. Baloch
- Scotland Ronnie Park
- South Africa John Alfred Swift
- South Africa Tom Shardelow
- South Africa Ron Robertson
- Wales Malcolm Campbell
- Wales Philip Waring
- Southern Rhodesia Ernest P. Branfield
- Southern Rhodesia John van Wyk

Road Race

1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games road race
Attribution:Province newspaper
Pos Athlete Time
1 England Eric Thompson 2.44.08
2 New Zealand John Baird
3 England Bernard Pusey
4 Australia Edward James Nestor
5 Australia George Frederick Nevin
6 Scotland Ronnie Park
7 South Africa Alfred Swift
- Australia John O'Sullivan
- Australia John William Law
- Canada André Robert
- Canada Patrick Murphy
- Canada Guy Morin
- Canada A. Cole
- England Norman Sheil
- England Tony Hoar
- British Guiana M. Crum-Ewing
- New Zealand Les Lock
- New Zealand Neil Ritchie
- New Zealand Lance Payne
- Pakistan Mahmood Saleem Farooqi
- Pakistan Muhammad Naqi Mallick
- Pakistan Ghulam H. Baloch
- South Africa Ron Robertson
- South Africa Robert Fowler
- Wales Malcolm Campbell
- Wales Don Skene
- Wales Philip Waring
- Southern Rhodesia Ernest P. Branfield

See also

References

  1. ^ "Results for the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games". TheCGF.com. Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ^ "The Mega-event that Set a Pace for Vancouver". The Tyee. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  3. ^ "Tuesday at the BEG". Vancouver Sun. 2 August 1954. p. 12. Retrieved 22 September 2025 – via Google Newspapers.
  4. ^ "Growing Interest in Empire Games". Birmingham Daily Post. 7 June 1954. Retrieved 22 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Empire Games Details". Western Mail. 14 April 1954. Retrieved 22 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Medal Standings Vancouver 1954". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Cycling". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  8. ^ "Aussies Boycott Games Cycling". Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW). 5 August 1954. p. 1.
  9. ^ "Straight Wins". Daily Mirror. 5 August 1954. Retrieved 23 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "Sheil heads cycle qualifiers". Daily Express. 3 August 1954. Retrieved 23 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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