fullname updated death_date death_place birth_place majorwins discipline birth_date nickname role image article_title name
victor louis johnson march 2011 23 june 1951 sutton coldfield aston manor , warwickshire 1908 national quarter-mile champion . 1908 - world amateur sprint champion - 1908 - olympic 660 yards champion 1909 - world record 60 quarter-mile , -lrb- 28 secs -rrb- 1909 - world record victories three-quarter mile 1909 - world record one mile . 1910 including - british national one-mile champion . 1911 - british national : quarter-mile champion . 1911 - british national one-mile champion . 1908 1911 - british national five-mile champion . 1912 - british - national quarter-mile champion . british track 10 may 1883 '' vic '' rider victor johnson.jpg victor johnson -lrb- cyclist -rrb-
 victor johnson
victor johnson -lrb- cyclist -rrb-

victor louis johnson , vic johnson , -lrb- 10 may 1883 -- 23 june 1951 -rrb- was a british track cycling racer who , in 1908 , won a gold medal at the 1908 summer olympics ; became ` world amateur sprint champion ' and the ` british national quarter-mile champion ' .
in september 1909 he set three world records at herne hill velodrome , london , for quarter-mile , three-quarter mile and one mile .
his quarter-mile time -lrb- 28 seconds -rrb- stood as the world record for 21 years and as the british amateur record for ` at least 39 years ' .
his lifetime achievements were celebrated in 1948 when cycling weekly awarded him his own page in the golden book of cycling , which is now held in ` the pedal club ' archive .
