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John Rawnsley 1937-2019
CYCLING WEEKLY
|January 09, 2020
Three Peaks founder and cyclo-cross pioneer
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John Rawnsley, who has died aged 82, not only founded the Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross race, he won the first event in 1961 and went on to ride 45 editions, finishing on the podium a number of times. Equally impressively, the Bingley man organised 50 editions, before handing over to the current committee.
This story is from the January 09, 2020 edition of CYCLING WEEKLY.
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