Bruce William Biddle (born 2 November 1948) is a former road racing cyclist from New Zealand, who was a professional rider from 1974 to 1979. He won the gold medal in the men's individual road race at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Career

Biddle won the gold medal in the men's individual road race at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. This was the first gold medal by a New Zealander in the road race at the

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. Following the race he spent the next season in England. He represented his native country at the

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in Munich, West Germany, where he came fourth in the men's individual road race. Although Jaime Huelamo from Spain, who came third, was disqualified for failing a drug test, the bronze medal was not awarded to Biddle as he had not been tested for drugs. There was an attempt in 2002 to try to get Biddle his Bronze medal it was not successful. But his first race following the Olympic games, in Tuscany, he was awarded a gold medal. In 1973 he won the Piccolo Giro di Lombardia, the under-23 version of the UCI WorldTour race

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. In 1979 Biddle was run over by a lorry and it look him many months to retire. This crash was one of the reasons he retired from the sport at the end of the year.

Major results

Sources: ;1969 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Dulux Tour of the North Island ;1970 : 1st Gold medal blank

Road race,

: 8th Overall Tour of Ireland ::1st Stages 4 & 8 ;1971 : 2nd, Stage 11 Milk Race : 3rd Overall Tour of Ireland : 4th Overall Manx International GP : 8th Overall Archer GP ;1972 : 1st GP la Torre : 4th Road race,

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;1973 : 1st Piccolo Giro di Lombardia : 1st Giro delle Valli Aretine : 2nd Coppa Bologna : 9th Gran Premio della Liberazione ;1974 : 3rd Giro del Lazio ;1975 : 7th GP Benego : 9th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato ;1976 : 5th

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: 7th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : 8th Giro della Romagna : 8th GP Montelupo : 8th Trofeo Baracchi : 2nd, Stage 7 Tour de Suisse, Lausanne : 2nd, Stage 8 Tour de Suisse, Solothurn : 3rd, Stage 5 part b Tirreno - Adriatico ;1978 : 10th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato

References

External links

Profile New Zealand Olympic Committee

NZ Herald
* 1949 births Living people New Zealand male cyclists Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand Cyclists from Auckland People from Warkworth, New Zealand Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen Commonwealth Games gold medallists in cycling {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub