Cycling at the 1950 British Empire Games

Cycling at the 1950 British Empire Games was the third appearance of Cycling at the Commonwealth Games. The track events took place at Western Springs Stadium, which had a 10 foot high banked concrete outdoor track, 18 feet wide and 515 yards in circumference. The road race started on Tamaki Drive, progressed to Parnell and Ōrākei before finishing on Tamaki Drive.

Australia topped the cycling medal table with four gold medals.

Medal table

Medal winners Time TrialSprint 1000m4000m Individual Pursuit10-mile ScratchRoad race

1,000m sprint championship

First Round Russell Mockridge bt Allen Stonex Sid Patterson bt Lorne Atkinson Graham Avery bt Erick Oland Don Olive bt E. Evans Tommy Godwin bt Charlie Bazzano D. K. Bennett bt Alan Geldard

Repechage Bazzano bt Stonex & Evans 13.7 sec

Quarter finals Mockridge bt Bennett 2–0 Patterson bt Stonex 2–0 Avery bt Bazzano 2–0 Olive bt Godwin 2–0

Semi finals Mockridge bt Olive 2–0 Patterson bt Avery 2–0

Third place Avery bt Olive 2–1

Final Mockridge bt Patterson 2–0

1,000m Time Trial PosAthleteTime1 Russell Mockridge 1:13.4 mins2 Sid Patterson 1:13.5 mins3 Tommy Godwin 1:13.6 mins4 Cyril Cartwright 1:15.1 mins5 Les Lock 1:16.2 mins6 Alan Geldard 1:16.5 mins8 Graham Hughes 1:17.1 mins9 John Millman 1:18.2 mins10 D. K. Bennett 1:18.6 mins11 E. Evans 1:18.8 mins12 Robert Carmichael 1:19.5 mins13 William Hamilton 1:19.8 mins14 E. P. Branfield 1:19.9 mins15 Lorne Atkinson 1:20.0 mins

4,000 metres individual purusit

Heats (top 4 times qualify for semi-finals) Cyril Cartwright 5:26.7 bt William Hamilton 5:43.0 (lapped) Russell Mockridge 5:40.0 bt E. P. Branfield 5:48.1 Jimmy Hamilton 5:26.7 bt Les Lock 5:29.6 Malcolm Campbell 5:40.4 (rode alone)

Semi-finals Cartwright 5.21.2 bt Lock 5.34.0 Mockridge 5.28.0 bt Hamilton 5.29.8

Third place Lock 5.26.7 bt Hamilton 5.28.2

Final Cartwright 5:16.3 bt Mockridge 5:27.0

10 mile scratch race PosAthleteTime1 Bill Heseltine23:23.42 Les Lock 3 Ken Caves Barry Coombs Erick Oland John Millman Lorne Atkinson Tommy Godwin Cyril Cartwright Alan Geldard Alan C. Dean Frank Tredrea Jimmy Hamilton Malcolm Campbell D. K. Bennett E. Evans E. P. Branfield

100km Road Race

Only 7 of the 13 starters finished. PosAthleteTime1 Hector Sutherland 3'13:06.42 Nick Carter 3'13:06.53 Jack Hartley Fowler 3'13:06.64 Peter Pryor 3'13:06.75 Malcolm Campbell 3'13:06.86 Alf Newman 3'13:07.2 7 James Downie no time Eric Holroyd dnf Lorne Atkinson dnf William Hamilton dnf E. P. Branfield dnf Jimmy Hamilton dnf Ted Lambert dnf

References

See also List of Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling