Thomas Lance
Appearance
![]() Harry Ryan and Thomas Lance (right) at the 1920 Olympics | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Thomas Glasson Lance | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Tommy | ||||||||||||||
Born | Paddington, London, England | 14 June 1891||||||||||||||
Died | 29 February 1976 Brighton, England | (aged 84)||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Rider type | Tandem and sprint | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Thomas Glasson Lance (14 June 1891 – 29 February 1976) was a British track cycling racer.[1] He won the tandem competition with Harry Ryan at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the sprint event but was eliminated in the repechage.[2]
Shortly before the Olympics, in June 1920, Ryan and Lance set a British quarter-mile record. After retiring from cycling Lance worked as a bookmaker in Brighton.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Thomas Lance". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Thomas Lance Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
External links
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- 1891 births
- 1976 deaths
- English male cyclists
- English track cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- English Olympic medallists
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- People from Paddington
- Cyclists from the City of Westminster
- British Olympic medallist stubs
- English cycling biography stubs