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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality | British (English) |
| Born | Q2. 1945[1] Leicester, England |
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| Club | Bradgate RC Leicester Forest CC |
Peter R. Mugglestone (born 1945) is a former British international cyclist who competed at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
[edit]Born in Leicester during 1945,[2] Mugglestone rode for the Bradgate Road Club of Leicester[3] and studied turbo-machinery at the University of Cambridge.[4]
In 1968, he joined Leicester Forest Cycling Club,[5] where he teamed up with Tony Brockhurst in the tandem, winning the 1969 tandem title with Brockhurst at the British National Tandem Sprint Championships. In 1970, he won the Memorial Trophy (with Brockhurst) for the best service to the club, in addition to breaking club and county records over varying distances.[6] Later that year the pair won a second British National Tandem Sprint Championships.[2][7]
Mugglestone represented the England team[8] at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,[9][10] where he participated in the tandem event. During the tandem event, the pair crashed and suffered injuries, with Mugglestone breaking a collar-bone and suffering concussion.[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 27 January 2026.
- 1 2 "Tandem duo". Leicester Chronicle. 26 June 1970. p. 28. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Road Club Trio Shatter 100 Record". Leicester Daily Mercury. 30 August 1967. p. 19. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Brock and Jumblebrick with their bicycle made for two". Leicester Chronicle. 15 November 1968. p. 12. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Tandem duo". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 22 May 1973. p. 18. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "shared award". Leicester Daily Mercury. 26 January 1970. p. 22. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Cooke comes back to win". Nottingham Evening Post. 3 August 1971. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "England Edinburgh 1970". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 8 November 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2026.
- ↑ "Rollinson and Moore to ride in Games team". Liverpool Echo. 10 June 1970. p. 22. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Ian Hallam picked in Games team". Nottingham Evening Post. 10 June 1970. p. 22. Retrieved 25 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Cyclist hurt in tandem event crash". The Scotsman. 24 July 1970. p. 19. Retrieved 27 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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