Patricia Pepper

{{short description|British road cyclist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = | fullname = | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1936}} | birth_place = Colchester, United Kingdom | death_date = {{death date and given age|2006|7|25|70|df=y}} | death_place = Cambridge, United Kingdom | height = | weight = | website = | disciplines = Road | role = Rider | amateuryears1 = | amateurteam1 = | proyears1 = | proteam1 = | show-medals = yes }} '''Patricia Pepper''' also called '''Pat Pepper''' (1936 - 25 July 2006) was a British road cyclist.<ref name="Cycling Archives">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=55561|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106230417/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=55561|url-status=usurped|archive-date=6 November 2021|title=Pat Pepper|first=Cycling|last=Archives|website=www.cyclingarchives.com}}</ref> She competed seven times at UCI Road World Championships between 1962 and 1970, with her best result a 5th place in the 1963 UCI Road World Championships. She won medals at the British National Road Race Championships, placing 2nd in 1962, 1963, 1964 and placing 3rd in 1967, 1969, and 1972.<ref name="Cycling Archives"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/patricia-pepper|title=Patricia Pepper|website=www.procyclingstats.com}}</ref>

Pepper continued with competitive cycling as a master. In July 2006 she crashed during a competition on the road in Cambridge, and died a week later at the age of 70.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/cyclist-died-in-race-collision-inquest-7473524|title=Cyclist died in race collision - inquest|date=20 October 2006|website=East Anglian Daily Times|publisher=Archant Community Media Ltd|access-date=November 6, 2021|postscript=. ''(This story was repeated in the 20 October 2006 ''Eastern Daily Press'' under the title "Pensioner died after bike crash".)''}}</ref>

==Achievements== ;1960 :3rd in British Best All Rounder, (London (F) (c)), London (Greater London), Great Britain

;1962 :2nd in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (F), Great Britain :3rd in British Best All Rounder, (London (F) (c)), London (Greater London), Great Britain

;1963 :2nd in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (F), Great Britain :3rd in British Best All Rounder, (London (F) (c)), London (Greater London), Great Britain

;1964 :5th in National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite, Great Britain (F), Kidlington (Oxfordshire), Great Britain :2nd in British Best All Rounder, (London (F) (c)), London (Greater London), Great Britain

;1965 :1st in Teplice Criterium, (Teplice (F)), Teplice (Ustecky Kraj), Czech Republic :2nd in Newbury R.C. Road Race, (Newbury (F) (a)), Newbury (Berkshire), Great Britain

;1967 :3rd in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (F), Great Britain

;1969 :3rd in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (F), Great Britain

;1971 :5th in part a Gemini B.C. Footscray Meadows Cyclo Cross, (Foots Cray, Cyclo-cross), Sidcup (Bexley), Great Britain :9th in part b Gemini B.C. Footscray Meadows Cyclo Cross, (Foots Cray, Cyclo-cross), Sidcup (Bexley), Great Britain

;1972 :3rd in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (F), Great Britain

;1976 :7th in part c London International Weekend, (London (F) (a)), Stratford (Greater London), Great Britain :7th in General Classification London International Weekend, (London (F) (a)), Stratford (Greater London), Great Britain :7th in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (F), Harrogate (North Yorkshire), Great Britain<ref name="Cycling Archives"/>

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