| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Robert John Maitland | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 March 1924 Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 August 2010 (aged 86) Metz, France | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7+1⁄2 in (171 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 154 lb (70 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| - | Solihull CC, Concorde RCC | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1953 | B.S.A. Cycles | ||||||||||||||
| 1954–1955 | Hercules Cycles | ||||||||||||||
| 1956–1957 | Individual (Unknown) | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Maitland Cycles | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| 1948, 1953 national road championships;
1945, 1949 national hill-climb championship UK national tandem record for 50 miles (80km) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Robert John Maitland (31 March 1924[1] – 26 August 2010)[2] was a British racing cyclist. He won national championships in Britain, tackled long-distance records, was the best-placed British rider in the 1948 Olympic road race, and rode for Britain in the Tour de France. His career coincided with a civil war within British cycling as two organisations, the National Cyclists Union and the British League of Racing Cyclists, fought for the future of road racing.
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