- Paul Carbutt
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ridername = Paul Carbutt
fullname = Paul Anthony Carbutt
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dateofbirth = birth date|1950|7|4
dateofdeath = death date and age|2004|5|01|1950|7|4
country = ENG
GBR
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discipline = Road
role = Rider
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proyears = 1978–1979
1980
1981
1982
proteams = Viking-Campagnolo
Man VW-Viking
Sugino-Harry Quinn
Itera-Falcon
majorwins = Yorkshire Classic
updated =23 March 2008 Paul Anthony Carbutt (born in
Birmingham on4 July 1950 ) was an English professional racingcyclist . He died in May 2004.Carbutt has an exceptional range of achievements - from a silver medal in the short distance National Hill Climb Championsip in 1975 to breaking the near 1,000 miles of the
Land's End to John o' Groats road cycling record in 1979. He was an accomplished road rider and time triallist.Amateur career
Carbutt rode for the Midlands-based Saracen Road Club early in his career. His racing programme mixed the top road races with a range of time trial distances. He first came to national prominence with a stage win and second overall in the 1974
Girvan 3-day stage race. In the same season he won the 100 mile National Time Trial Championship.In 1975 he won a bronze medal in the British National Road Race Championship and won both the 50 miles and 12 hour National Time Trial Championships. His time trialling prowess led to him being selected for the British team for the
Team time trial at the Montreal Olympics. The team came 6th, just 50 seconds away from a bronze medal.In 1977 he rode for the powerful GS Strada team. He won the early-season Girvan 3-day, was 3rd on General Classification in The Milk Race and was National Time Trial Champion at 100 miles. The GS Strada team (Carbutt,
Dave Cuming ,Phil Griffiths andJoe Waugh ) won the National 100km Team Trial Championship. Carbutt also won the season-longBritish Best All-Rounder time trial competition.Professional career
In 1978 Carbutt turned professional for the Viking-Campagnolo team. In his first year he took a stage win at the Scottish Milk Race.
Lands End to John O'Groats record
In July of 1979, in the midst of a busy professional season, Carbutt attempted to break Dick Poole's 1965 solo road cycling record from Lands End to John O'Groats. Carbutt made early inroads into Poole's schedule, struggled in a Scottish heat wave, but eventually recorded a (then) record time of 1 day, 23 hours, 23 minutes and 1 second - just inside Poole's mark.
Another win
In 1980 Carbutt won the Yorkshire Classic road race at
Harrogate . He also took third in the Tom Simpson Memorial road race in 1981.Later life
Carbutt continued cycling after his professional career, riding with the Saracen Road Club again and later the
Solihull Cycling Club.In 1984 he rode the National 24 hour Time Trial Championship, attempting to medal at yet another distance. Unfortunately he has a bad day and finished in 22nd place.
He was a clay artist by profession, designing transport solutions. ["
Cycling Weekly ",21 March 1992 ]He was later diagnosed with
Motor neurone disease and died in 2004External links
* [http://www.cyclingwebsite.net/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=735 Carbutt at cyclingwebsite.net]
References
Bernard Thompson, "The true all-rounder" in Cycling Weekly, March 21, 1992, pp. 22-3
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