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It is catalogued under topics including 1937 births, 1967 deaths and 20th-century English sportsmen.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- 1959
- Saint-Raphaël–R. Geminiani–Dunlop
- 1962
- Gitane–Leroux–Dunlop–R. Geminiani
- Full name
- Thomas Simpson
- Nickname
- Major Simpson
- Born
- ( 1937-11-30 ) 30 November 1937, Haswell, County Durham , England
- Died
- 13 July 1967 (1967-07-13) (aged 29), Mont Ventoux , Vaucluse, France
- Height
- 1.81 m (5 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)
- Discipline
- Road and track
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 1960 1961
- Rapha–Gitane–Dunlop
- 1963 1967
- Peugeot–BP–Englebert
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tom
- Family name
- Simpson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Haswell
- Place of death
- Mont Ventoux
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Tom Simpson c1966.jpg
- Residence
- Haswell
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- Commons category
- Tom Simpson (cyclist)
- date of birth
- 1937-11-30
- date of death
- 1967-07-13
- place of burial
- Nottinghamshire
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager before taking up track cycling, specialising in pursuit races. He won a bronze medal for track cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
In 1959, at age 21, Simpson was signed by the French professional road-racing team Saint-Raphaël–R. Geminiani–Dunlop. He advanced to their first team (Rapha–Gitane–Dunlop) the following year, and won the 1961 Tour of Flanders. Simpson then joined Gitane–Leroux–Dunlop–R. Geminiani; in the 1962 Tour de France he became the first British rider to wear the yellow jersey, finishing sixth overall.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tom Simpson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.