Denise Burton-Cole (née Burton; born 24 January 1956) is an English retired

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. During the mid-late 1970s she won national titles and a world championship bronze medal in 1975 representing Great Britain.

Family

She is the daughter of racing cyclist

Beryl Burton Beryl Burton Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, OBE (12 May 1937 – 5 May 1996) was an English Cycle sport, racing cyclist who dominated the Women's sports, women's sport, winning more than 90 domestic championships ...

(1937–1996).

Career

Cycling

Burton followed in her mother's footsteps, participating in

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and

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s. On the track, she won the British women's national

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championship in 1975 and 1976, and took a third place bronze medal in the discipline at the 1975 World Championships in Belgium.
The Women Superstars
' BBC TV, 7 June 1977. Accessed: 20 July 2015. She was UK women's national road race champion in 1976, and was second in 1973, 1975 and 1978. Rivalry between mother and daughter also caused tension: after Denise outsprinted her mother to the 1976 title, her mother refused to shake hands with her on the podium. In time-trials, she won the WCRA 10-miles and 25-miles championships in 1978. In 1982, with her mother, Burton set a British 10-mile record for women riding a tandem: 21 minutes, 25 seconds. Burton rode the 1986

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, finishing 42nd overall. To prepare for the race, she rode the Tour of Norway and the Tour of Texas. She was due to ride the 1987 Tour, she however had to pull out after an accident resulted in her breaking her back.

Media appearances

She also appeared in the first all-female edition of the BBC Television series, ''

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'' in 1977.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burton, Denise Sportspeople from Morley, West Yorkshire English female cyclists British female cyclists British cycling road race champions 1956 births Cyclists from Yorkshire Living people 20th-century English sportswomen