Ernie Mills (cyclist)
Ernest Victor Mills (10 April 1913 – 10 October 1972), commonly known as Ernie Mills, was an English amateur cyclist who, with his teammate Bill Paul, set the British 12-hour record on a tandem in 1934 and re-established it in 1936 with a 'world's best performance'. In 1937, in Italy, they set the world one-hour tandem record which stood for 63 years until September 2000. The Addiscombe Cycle Club teammates set 20 world and British records at both short and long distances.
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Full name | Ernest Victor Mills | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Ernie | ||||||||||||||
Born | Croydon, England | 10 April 1913||||||||||||||
Died | 10 October 1972 59) | (aged||||||||||||||
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circa 1930-1939 | Addiscombe Cycle Club | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mills represented Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin and won a bronze medal in the Team Pursuit. At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney Australia, he won a bronze medal in the 1,000 metre Time-Trial
In 1937 Cycling Weekly jointly awarded him and Bill Paul their own page in the Golden Book of Cycling.