{{Short description|British racing cyclist (1959–1998)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = Peter Longbottom | image = Pete Longbottom (1959-1998).jpeg | image_size = 150px | caption = | fullname = | birth_date = {{birth date|1959|5|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = Huddersfield, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|2|10|1959|5|13|df=yes}} | death_place = York, England | height = | weight = | discipline = | role = | ridertype = | amateuryears1 = | amateurteam1 = | proyears1 = | proteam1 = | majorwins = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Cycling}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1990 Auckland | team time trial}} {{MedalSilver| 1994 Victoria | team time trial}} |show-medals=yes }}
'''Peter Longbottom''' (13 May 1959 – 10 February 1998) was a British road racing and time triallist cyclist. He won more than 40 national championship medals and won bronze and silver medals in the team time trial event at the 1990 and 1994 Commonwealth Games.
==Cycling career== Longbottom was born on 13 May 1959 in Huddersfield to cycling parents.<ref name="Nicholl">{{cite web |last1=Nicholl |first1=Robin |title=Obituary: Peter Longbottom |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-peter-longbottom-1144459.html |website=The Independent |access-date=17 September 2019 |date=13 February 1998 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140427185325/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-peter-longbottom-1144459.html |archive-date=27 April 2014}}</ref><ref name=CWObit1>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Longbottom dies in crash |magazine=Cycling Weekly |page=6 |date=21 February 1998}} [https://archive.today/20210802144557/http://www.clochette.co.uk/TTF/Scanned%20Articles/1998/98longbottomobitp1.jpg Archived] on 2 August 2021.</ref> He began cycling with Clifton Cycling Club and Velo Club York with whom he won his first national team time trial medal, a bronze, in 1978.<ref name=CWObit1 /><ref name=CWObit2>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=A life in cycling |magazine=Cycling Weekly |pages=6–7 |date=21 February 1998 }} [https://archive.today/20210802144557/http://www.clochette.co.uk/TTF/Scanned%20Articles/1998/98longbottomobitp1.jpg Archived 1][https://archive.today/20210802144627/http://www.clochette.co.uk/TTF/Scanned%20Articles/1998/98longbottomobitp2.jpg 2] on 2 August 2021.</ref> He joined the Manchester Wheelers in the 1980s and also rode for GS Strada and North Wirral Velo.<ref name="CWObit1" /> He briefly rode with A.C.B.B. during the 1982 season leading to an offer to turn professional with Wolber, which he declined.<ref name="CWObit2" />
Combining his cycling career with a full time job as a civil engineer at Ryedale District Council, he won the Tour of the Cotswold road race in 1983 and 1989, the Grand Prix of Essex in 1984 and the Archer International in 1992, and over 40 medals in national competitions.<ref name="CWObit1" /><ref name="CWObit2" /> He competed in the Milk Race ten times, winning the opening stage in 1989 in Bournemouth.<ref name="Nicholl" /><ref name="CWObit2" />
thumb|Memorial plaque for Pete Longbottom in York.
He won a bronze medal in the team time trial, riding with Chris Boardman, Ben Luckwell and Wayne Randle, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, and finished fifth in the road race.<ref name="Nicholl" /><ref name="CWObit2" /> Also in 1990, he broke the 25-mile time trial record held by Alf Engers for 12 years with a time of 49 minutes 13 seconds and won the national 100-mile time trial, beating Gethin Butler by four minutes.<ref name="CWObit2" /> Four years later at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, he won silver medal in the team time trial with Matt Illingworth, Paul Jennings and Simon Lillistone.<ref name="Nicholl" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/45629|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref> He competed in the team time trial at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona finishing 14th.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/peter-longbottom-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041836/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/peter-longbottom-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Peter Longbottom Olympic Results |access-date=27 July 2016}}</ref>
Longbottom retired from racing in 1996.<ref name="CWObit1" /> He died on 10 February 1998 following a road accident near York as he was cycling on the A64.<ref name=CWObit1 /><ref name="BBC">{{cite web |title=Top British cyclist killed |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sport/55741.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=29 April 2021 |date=11 February 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Farewell to 'dedicated' Peter |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7970444.farewell-to-dedicated-peter/ |website=York Press |access-date=25 June 2022 |date=20 February 1998}}</ref>
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