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Historic Overview Jocelyn Lovell

Rider

Overall Rank15223
NameJocelyn LOVELL
Country
  Canada
Date of birth19-Jul-1950 - Norwich-Gbr (Norfolk)
Date of death03-Jun-2016 - Mississauga (Ontario)

Biography

Jocelyn Lovell

Jocelyn Charles Bjorn Lovell (19 July 1950 – 3 June 2016) was a Canadian and World cycling champion. He won dozens of Canadian national titles for track and road cycling in the 1970s and early 1980s, as well as gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games. He competed at three Olympic Games. His victories, at international competitions, renewed global interest in Canadian cycling.

In 1973 he was suspended from Team Canada during “the cookie incident.” His suspension caused him to miss the 1974 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand. He moved to Europe, for about six months, becoming the first Canadian to regularly compete for a European trade team. He returned to Canada in July 1974 where he won five gold medals at the Canadian men’s national cycling championships in track and long-distance cycling.

At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, he won three gold medals in Games record times. Later that year he won a silver medal at the world championships. He continued to race as an amateur into the early 1980s.

On 4 August 1983, he was hit by a dump truck while training in Halton Region, just northwest of Toronto. The driver collided with him from behind, breaking Lovell's neck and pelvis. From that moment on, he permanently became a quadriplegic. No charges were laid. By 1985, he was sufficiently well enough that he focused his energies on activism for a cure for spinal injuries through his foundation.

When his career came to a sudden end, his cycling achievements were eventually recognized by various sports bodies in Canada. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame on 23 August 1985. He was in the inaugural class of inductees for the Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame with a ceremony held on 10 October 2015 at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre in Milton, Ontario.

source - Wikipedia

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Seasons

Jocelyn Lovell - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1969 Individual 12 692
2. 1970 Individual 7 758
3. 1971 Individual 7 742
4. 1973 Individual 5 794
5. 1974 Furzi 16 531
6. 1975 Individual 5 744
7. 1976 Individual 7 691
8. 1977 Individual 5 776
9. 1978 Individual 11 630
10. 1980 Individual 5 831
11. 1983 Individual 4 948
Overall: 84 15223