club weight birth_place height sport birth_date article_title
team haverhill 77 kg lb on ossett , wakefield , england 1.80 m ftin on cycling 15 december 1968 colin sturgess

colin sturgess

colin andrew sturgess -lrb- born 15 december 1968 -rrb- is a retired english road and track cyclist who was active between 1986 and 2000 .
on track , he won one gold and one bronze medals in the individual pursuit at the world championships in 1989 and 1991 .
he competed at the 1988 summer olympics in the 4 km individual pursuit and finished in fourth place .
on the road , he won the british national road race championships in 1990 .
in 2010 he was inducted to the british cycling hall of fame .
sturgess was born in ossett , wakefield , england , though his parents are from london .
when he was six , his family moved to johannesburg , south africa .
sturgess turned professional after the 1988 olympics .
he had interrupted his career around 1993 , when he graduated in literature from the loughborough university and moved with his partner to sydney , australia .
in australia , he resumed competing , while working as a sports journal editor , and later returned to england .
he finally retired in 2000 , after winning a silver medal at the 1998 commonwealth games , and worked as a wine maker and wine educator near sydney .
