Cycling at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was the eighth appearance of Cycling at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 16 to 25 July 1970.

The track events took place in the Meadowbank Velodrome, which formed part of the Meadowbank Sports Centre, built specifically for the Games, at a cost of £2.8 million. The velodrome construction cost £90,000 and was located approximately 200 yards east of the sports centre.

The road race was a 102 miles route, consisting of 31 circuits of Holyrood Park and included climbs and a route through the Queen's Palace Gardens at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Australia topped the cycling medal table, by virtue of winning two gold medals, three silver and one bronze.

Medal table

Medal winners Road Race Bruce Biddle Ray Bilney John TrevorrowTime Trial Harry Kent Leslie King Jocelyn Lovell Sprint John Nicholson Gordon Johnson Leslie King Individual Pursuit Ian Hallam Danny Clark Blair Stockwell 10 miles Scratch Jocelyn Lovell Brian Temple Vernon Stauble Tandem Gordon JohnsonRon Jonker Jocelyn LovellBarry Harvey John HatfieldJohn Beswick

Results

Road Race (top 18) PosAthleteTime1 Bruce Biddle 4:38:58.00 hours2 Ray Bilney 4:58:58.003 John Trevorrow 4:40:26.004 Dave Rollinson 4:41:25 Bryce Beeston 4:41:26 Nigel J. Dean 4:42.57 Ernest Potter 4:44.48 Gary Crewe 4:44.49 Andy McGhee 4:45.110 Brian Rushton4:45.111 Grahame Jenkins 4:45:312 Andrew Brunton 4:45.313 Thomas Morris 4:45:314 Dave Kane 4:45:315 Billy Bilsland 4:46:016 Brian F. Roche 4:49:217 Max Grace 4:50:618 Alex Gilchrist 4:50:6

Individual pursuit PosAthlete1 Ian Hallam 2 Danny Clark 3 Blair Stockwell 4 Dave Watson 5 Douglas John Armstrong 5 William Moore5 Ray Ward 5 Frank Ludtke Quarter-final AthleteAthleteScore Clark Ludtke caught Watson Ward 5.18.66/5.26.29 Hallam Armstrong 5.9.67/5.14.08 Stockwell Moore5.12.32/5.16.57 Semi finals AthleteAthleteScore Hallam Watson 5.09.63/5.17.17 Clark Stockwell 5.06.19/5.09.17 Third place AthleteAthleteScore Stockwell Watson rode over Final AthleteAthleteScore Hallam Clark 5.01.41/5.04.93

Time trial (1km) PosAthleteTime1 Harry Kent 1:08.692 Leslie King 1:10.403 Jocelyn Lovell 1:10.534 Daryl Perkins 1:10.9 5 Barry Harvey 1:11.0 6 Danny Clark 1:11.4 7 Michael Bennett 1:11.9 8 John Nicholson 1:11.99 Frank Ludtke 1:12.2 10 Blair Stockwell 1:12.3 11 Vernon Stauble 1:12.5 12 Ray Ward 1:12.713 Brian Temple 1:12.814 John Pritchard 1:13.015 Robert Farrell 1:13.316 Ronald Keeble 1:13.3

Sprint PosAthlete1 John Nicholson 2 Gordon Johnson 3 Leslie King 4 Harry Kent 5 Daryl Perkins 5 Barry Harvey 5 Winston Attong 5 Bryce Preston 9 Bob Bicknell 9 David Rowe 9 Neville Hunte 9 Leslie John 13 Ernie Crutchlow 13 Max Vertongen 13 Thomas Banks 13 Kenneth Whitson Quarter-final AthleteAthleteScore Johnson Harvey 2–0 Kent Attong 2–0 King Perkins 2–0 Nicholson Preston 2–1 Semi finals AthleteAthleteScore Nicholson King 2–1 Kent Johnson 2–1 Third place AthleteAthleteScore King Kent 2–1 Final AthleteAthleteScore Nicholson Johnson 2–0

10 miles scratch race PosAthleteTime1 Jocelyn Lovell 20:46.72 2 Brian Temple 20:47.563 Vernon Stauble 20:47.724 Max Vertongen 20:53.8 5 Bryce Preston 20:53.96 Harry Kent 20:54.6 7 Ronald Keeble 20:57.58 Douglas P. Lidster 20:57.69 Alex Gordon 20:58.710 Ian Hallam 20:59.2 11 David Beattie 20:59.412 Mel Davies 20:59.513 Gordon Johnson 20:59.514 Ronald Jonker 20:59.515 Robert Farrell

Tandem (2,000m) PosAthlete1 Gordon Johnson & Ronald Jonker2 Jocelyn Lovell & Barry Harvey3 John Hatfield & John Beswick4 Bryce Preston & Max Vertongen5 Winston Attong & Robert Farrell6 Tony Brockhurst & Pete Mugglestone

Quarter-final AthleteAthleteScore Australia Wales 2–0 Canada England 1–0, w/o New Zealand Trinidad & Tobago 2–0 Repechage AthleteAthleteScoreWales Trinidad & Tobago 2–0

Semi finals AthleteAthleteScoreAustralia Wales 2–0 Canada New Zealand 2–1 Third place AthleteAthleteScore Wales New Zealand 2–0 Final AthleteAthleteScoreAustralia Canada 2–0

See also List of Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling

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