Cycling at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fourth appearance of Cycling at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July to 7 August 1954.
The track events took place at Empire Oval or Broadway Bowl in China Creek Park, which had been specially constructed wooden track for the Games.
The road race course was described as quite flat, featuring a high point of 360 feet and the highest gradient was 250 feet in 440 yards.
England topped the cycling medal table with three gold medals.
In the sprint final, Lionel Cox of Australia did not receive a medal after refusing to continue the match against Cyril Peacock of England. Cox had been disqualified in race 1 for cutting across Peacock's wheel and subsequently the Australian team refused to participate in the next race and were subsequently disqualified.
Medal table
Medal winners Time trial Sprint +not awarded Individual pursuit10 Miles scratch Road race
Results 1 km time trial
Rank Rider Time Dick Ploog 1:12.5 Alfred Swift 1:12.5 Keith Harrison 1:12.7 4 Peter Brotherton 1:12.8 5 Cyril Peacock 1:13.0 6 Colin Dickinson 1:13.2 7 Ron Robertson1:13.7 8 Lindsay Cocks 1:13.8 9 Jim Davies1:14.1 10 Patrick Murphy 1:14.5 11 Lionel Cox 1:14.6 12 Neil Ritchie 1:15.3 13 John van Wyk 1:15.7 14 André Robert1:15.8 15 Ernest Branfield1:15.9 16 Les Lock1:16.1 17 Don Skene1:16.2 18 Malcolm Campbell1:20.019 Muhammad Naqi Mallick1:22.020 Ghulam H. Baloch1:23.921 Philip Waring1:23.9 22 Mahmood Saleem Farooqi1:26.9
1,000m sprint championship Quarter-final AthleteAthleteScore Tom Shardelow Jim Davies 2–0 Lionel Cox Colin Dickinson2–0 Cyril Peacock Alfred Swift 2–1 Dick Ploog Keith Harrison 2–1
Semi finals Peacock bt Plog 2–0 Cox bt Shardelow 2–
Third place Shardelow bt Ploog 2–1
Final Peacock bt Cox w/o
4,000 metres individual purusit
Qualifiers for quarter-finals AthleteTime Norman Sheil 5.10.4 Robert Fowler 5.10.8 Ron Mitton 5.12.2 Peter Brotherton 5.13.2 Bernard Pusey 5.16.7 Neil Ritchie 5.21.4 Patrick Murphy 5.21.5 John William Law 5.22.8
Quarter-finals Sheil bt Law - caught at 4.44.4 Brotherton bt Ritchie - 5.12.3 Fowler bt Murphy - 5.13.4 Pusey bt Mitton - 5.09.5
Semi-finals Sheil bt Fowler - 5.06.4 Brotherton bt Pusey 5.14.6
Third place Fowler 5.06.9 bt Pusey 5.08.5
Final Sheil 5.03.5 (world record) bt Brotherton 5.09.1
10 mile scratch race
PosAthleteTime1 Lindsay Cocks 2.44.082 Keith Harrison 3 Don Skene 4 Lorne Atkinson 5 Les Lock 6 Eric Thompson - Dick Ploog - B. Henderson - Fred Markus - Norman Sheil - Colin Dickinson - Neil Ritchie - Mahmood Saleem Farooqi - Muhammad Naqi Mallick - Ghulam H. Baloch - Ronnie Park - John Alfred Swift - Tom Shardelow - Ron Robertson - Malcolm Campbell - Philip Waring - Ernest P. Branfield - John van Wyk
Road Race
PosAthleteTime1 Eric Thompson 2.44.082 John Baird 3 Bernard Pusey 4 Edward James Nestor 5 George Frederick Nevin 6 Ronnie Park 7 Alfred Swift - John O'Sullivan - John William Law - André Robert - Patrick Murphy - Guy Morin - A. Cole - Norman Sheil - Tony Hoar - M. Crum-Ewing - Les Lock - Neil Ritchie - Lance Payne - Mahmood Saleem Farooqi - Muhammad Naqi Mallick - Ghulam H. Baloch - Ron Robertson - Robert Fowler - Malcolm Campbell - Don Skene - Philip Waring - Ernest P. Branfield
See also List of Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
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