Kevin John Nichols (born 4 July 1955 in

Grafton, New South Wales Grafton ( Bundjalung: ''Gumbin Gir'') is a city in the Northern Rivers region of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located on the Clarence River, on a floodplain, approximately by road north-northeast of the state capital Sydney. ...

) is a former

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

and

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list. His daughter, Kate Nichols, is a

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most comm ...

."Kate Nichols arrives home"

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, 31 July 2005;
"Games hopeful hurt in bike-pack smash"
by Jacquelin Magnay, Dylan Welch, Dan Emerson and Sunanda Creagh, ''

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'', 9 May 2008

Career

At the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...

, in Los Angeles, Nichols was a member of the gold winning pursuit team. Nichols also competed at the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

and

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

. Nichols won the

Goulburn to Sydney Classic The Goulburn to Sydney cycling race was a one-day Road bicycle racing, road bicycle race. The first race was held in 1902 with the last in 2012. History The route from Goulburn to Sydney via the Hume Highway was popular with cyclists in the l ...

in 1993.

References

1955 births Living people Australian male cyclists Australian track cyclists Olympic cyclists for Australia Cyclists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Australia Sportsmen from New South Wales Olympic medalists in cycling Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Cyclists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian sportsmen Commonwealth Games silver medallists in cycling Commonwealth Games gold medallists in cycling {{Australia-Olympic-medalist-stub