Richard Douglas Thomson (16 August 1940 – 3 May 2012) was a New Zealand

cyclist Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

. He competed in the individual road race and the

team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...

events at the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Ol ...

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* 1940 births 2012 deaths New Zealand male cyclists Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Oamaru Cyclists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games cyclists for New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub