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Lloyd Binch

cyclist (1931-2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ17488212 ↗
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Lloyd Binch (28 March 1931 – 15 December 2016) was a British cyclist.

Biography

He competed in the sprint event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

He also represented the England team and won a bronze medal in the 1,000m match sprint at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.

Binch was a seven times British track champion, winning the British National Individual Sprint Championships from 1955 until 1961.From 1956 until 1958 he won the International Champion of Champions sprint at Herne Hill velodrome.

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“Lloyd Binch” enters the record as cyclist (1931-2016). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lloyd, Binch and cyclist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lloyd Binch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.