{{short description|British cyclist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = John Clarey | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|10|4|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Woolwich]], London, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | discipline = | role = Rider | ridertype = | amateuryears1 = | amateurteam1 = Cambrian Wheelers CC, London<br> Woolwich CC, London | proyears1 = | proteam1 = | majorwins = | medaltemplates = | show-medals = }} '''John Clarey''' (born 4 October 1940) is a British former [[bicycle racing|racing cyclist]].<ref name="CyclingArchives">{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=12479 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140423184215/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=12479 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=23 April 2014 |title=John Clarey |access-date=23 April 2014 |work=Cycling Archives}}</ref>
== Cycling career == Carey represented the [[England at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|1962 English Team]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3035/19/all |title=England Perth 1962 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=2 November 2025 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029122815/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3035/19/all |url-status=dead }}</ref> at the [[1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] in [[Perth]], Australia, participating in the [[Cycling at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's scratch|10 miles scratch event]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3035/event/1520 |title=Cycling Road Scratch Race - Men Perth 1962 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=1 November 2025 |archive-date=26 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026043923/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3035/event/1520 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19621130/538/0023 |title=Cycling |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=30 November 1962 |p=23|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=30 October 2025}}</ref> despite being hospitalised a few days earlier when training for the event at the velodrome.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/perth-1962/athletes|title=1962 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref>
Four years later he was selected to represent the [[England at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|England team]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19660519/710/0028 |title=Midland cyclists in Games team |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=19 May 1966 |p=28 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 December 2025}}</ref> again at the [[1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in the [[Cycling at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|road race event]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/search/result?name=clarey&sport=&event=&country=&games=&medals=|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
He was the national 10 miles champion but finished in [[Lanterne rouge|last place]] in the [[1968 Tour de France]].<ref name="ProCycling">{{cite web |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=172184 |title=John Clarey |access-date=23 April 2014 |work=ProCyclingStats}}</ref>
Clarey rode for Cambrian Wheelers CC in London and Woolwich CC in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001922/19651022/349/0015 |title=Cycling |work=Bognor Regis Observer |date=22 October 1965 |p=15 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 December 2025}}</ref>
== Major results == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} ;1961 :1st Stage 12 [[Milk Race]] ;1962 :1st Stage 2 [[Milk Race]] :Commonwealth Games, Track, 10 Mile ;1963 :2nd British National Road Race Amateurs ;1964 :3rd British National Road Race Amateurs ;1966 :1st [[Lincoln Grand Prix]] ;1968 :63rd [[Tour de France]] {{div col end}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{cycling archives|12479}} *{{ProCyclingStats|172184}}
{{Tour de France Lanterne Rouge |state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarey, John}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English male cyclists]] [[Category:British male cyclists]] [[Category:People from Woolwich]] [[Category:Cyclists from the Royal Borough of Greenwich]] [[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England]] [[Category:Cyclists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] [[Category:Cyclists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] [[Category:Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] [[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in cycling]]