Paul Swinnerton (born 1958) is a male retired British

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Cycling career

Swinnerton won the National Tandem Sprint Championship, the Amateur Individual Sprint and the National Kilometre Time Trial

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in 1979 and 1981 also winning the National 500m Grass Track 4 times and the 8km National grass Title 4 times, turned professional in 1984. He represented

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in the 1,000 metres match sprint and the 1 km time trial, at the

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Family

The Swinnerton family were a cycling family, Swinnerton Cycles was founded in 1915, in Victoria Road, Fenton,

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. Roy Swinnerton (1925-2013 and a national grass champion in 1956) and his wife Doris (née Salt) took over the shop in 1956 and set up a cycling club called Stoke ACCS during 1970. They had seven children. Paul's twin sister

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was a two times British road race champion,

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won a World Road race silver medal in 1969,

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were all British internationals and Bernard and Frances also competed for the club.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Swinnerton, Paul Living people 1958 births English male cyclists British male cyclists Cyclists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games cyclists for England People from Fenton, Staffordshire Sportspeople from Staffordshire