Reg Harris
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Reginald Hargreaves Harris OBE was an English track racing cyclist in the 1940s and 1950s. He won the world amateur sprint title in 1947, two Olympic silver medals in 1948 and the world professional t
Harris at the 1948 Olympic Games
Harris at the Herne Hill Velodrome during the 1948 Olympic Games
J. Jackson's Reg Harris memorial at Manchester Velodrome
The 1954 UCI Track Cycling World Championships took place in Cologne, West Germany, at the Müngersdorfer Radrennbahn velodrome from August 28 to September 5, 1954. This was one of the annual world cha
Reg Harris
…in Copenhagen – a victory he repeated the following two years in Belgium and Milan. He then won a fourth and final world professional title at the 1954 UCI Track World Championships in Cologne. He won the Sports Journalists' Association's accolade of Sportsman of the Year in 1950, and was runner-up in 1949 and 1951. He retired in…
1954 UCI Road World Championships poster