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had the personality that attracts the crowd, and any track meeting billing 'F.W.S.' versus, say, Harry Wyld (his great rival at the paced game) was certain of a packed house. Although he raced on almost every road course in this country, and competed in many events abroad... world's championships and
Olympic Games... he was always at his best on his 'home ground', the Brighton Road, and his
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The versatility of the great
Norwood Paragonian, Frank Southall, thrilled the cycling world of the 1920s and 1930s. No matter what branch of the sport he turned to, road time trials, paced races on the track, road records or track records, he dominated his contemporaries. In addition to his speed, he
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England to attack various distance records. Opperman rode 466 miles in 24 hours to break Southall's record of 457 miles. Southall's record for London-Portsmouth-London of 6hr 49' 17" was beaten by Stuart setting a new record of 6hrs 34' 7". Southall's record for London-Brighton-London
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British officials protested that
Southall had been 90 seconds behind Hansen at 50 km but that 34 km later the lead had stretched to eight and a half minutes. They insisted that Hansen had neither gone faster nor Southall slower. Southall had been riding fast enough to take back a minute in
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In 1933, Southall and Stan Butler rode the Oak Tandem 100, winning in 4h 1m 3s, beating the record by two minutes. Southall now held six single and tandem competition records (25, 50 and 100 miles (160 km) single and 30, 50 and 100 miles (160 km) tandem).
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Olympic road race in Amsterdam in 1928 was run against the clock, as an individual time-trial. It was the last to be disputed that way. Southall was one of the best performers in the world against the clock but in 21 miles (34 km) he lost seven minutes to
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British team sent over for the 1928 Games at Amsterdam was probably the best that ever left our shores. It included the great Frank Southall, unbeatable in time-trials on the road... Our best chance was in the road race, a 165km
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of 4hr 59' 23" was twice beaten by
Milliken setting a new record of 4hr 39' 26". Southall responded with four unsuccessful attempts to regain the London-Brighton-London record before he succeeded in a time of 4h 38' 27".
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did not believe it then and never changed his mind. "I couldn't see where anything like that could have happened. It seemed to me that it would have been impossible to go off-course", he said.
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who won silver medals for Great Britain in the individual
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799:"Southall again – breaks another Opperman record"
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807:. Melbourne. 8 October 1934. p. 12
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913:"History of Norwood Paragon CC - 1953"
725:Archive maintained by 'The Pedal Club'
658:"History of Norwood Paragon CC - 1933"
641:"History of Norwood Paragon CC - 1930"
606:"History of Norwood Paragon CC - 1927"
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830:"Milliken-Stuart more tandem records"
751:. Melbourne. 3 April 1935. p. 10
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998:Cyclists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
993:Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
629:Olympic.org Records, Cycling - Track
935:The Bicycle, UK, 23 April 1941, p17
743:"Opperman will have strong support"
480:He died aged 59 on 1 March 1964 in
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259:William Frank Southall
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338:On 5 August 1928 in
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283:1932 Summer Olympics
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203:Individual road race
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892:on 16 December 2006
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498:The Bicycle
315:hour record
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962:Categories
896:23 January
514:References
492:Assessment
348:Percy Wyld
344:Harry Wyld
290:Wandsworth
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48:1904-07-02
804:The Argus
486:Hampshire
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273:) at the
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475:Hercules
131:Hercules
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