Donald Christopher Burgess (born 8 February 1933) is a retired track cyclist from Great Britain who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Finland. There he won the bronze medal in the men's 4.000 metres team pursuit alongside Alan Newton George Newberry and Ronald Stretton. Burgess also competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Australia and once again won bronze. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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