Lovell, Jocelyn

Jocelyn Lovell was born July 19, 1950 in the city of Norwich , Norfolk County in England , but in 1954 his family moved permanently to Canada . He began to actively engage in cycling at the age of thirteen.

The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 1968 season, when he became a member of the Canadian national team and thanks to a series of successful performances he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City . He played at the Games in the sprint and gita for 1000 meters, in the first case he dropped out of the fight for medals after four races, while in the second case he took the final seventh place. A year later, he visited the world championship in track cycling in Brno, where he became the ninth in the kilometer race among amateurs.

In 1971, Lovell won the gold medal in the gita at the Pan American Games in Cali . Being one of the leaders of the cycling team of Canada, he successfully passed the selection for the Olympic Games in Munich - this time he was on the fifteenth line in the git and became the nineteenth in the 4000 meters pursuit team.

At the Pan American Games in 1975 in Mexico City, he again won the Gita. He later defended the country's honor at the Montreal home Olympic Games - he took 13th place in the gita and 11th in the team pursuit.

One of the most successful seasons in Lovell’s sports career was the 1978 season, when he won three gold medals in three different track disciplines at the British Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and won the silver award at the World Track Cycling Championships in Munich - in the amateur individual race with separate second only to the representative of Germany Lothar Thoms . The last time showed any significant result on the international scene in 1982, when he took ninth place in the round at the World Championships in Leicester.

Jocelyn Lovell's sports career was interrupted prematurely, in August 1983, during a training session, a dump truck hit him from behind, resulting in fractures of his neck and pelvis, as well as paralysis of all four limbs. No criminal case was opened on this incident, and the perpetrator was not punished.

Later, Lovell lived in the city of Mississauga , Ontario . Even before the accident in 1981, he married the famous Canadian speed skater and cyclist Sylvia Burke , but in 1986 they broke up. Subsequently, he married a second time to another woman. For his outstanding achievements in cycling, he was introduced to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.

Died June 3, 2016 in Toronto at the age of 65.

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• Jocelyn Lovell, Canada's first cycling icon (neopr.) . Canadian Cycling Magazine. Date of treatment June 4, 2016.
• Canadian cyclist Jocelyn Lovell became fierce advocate for spinal-cord research (17 June 2016). Archived June 18, 2016. Date of treatment June 17, 2016.

• Jocelyn Lovell: Rebel biker , CBC Archives (October 24, 2002). Date of treatment June 10, 2015.
• Wheels are still turning for Lovell , Toronto Star (August 24, 2007), S. S4. Archived on June 10, 2015. Date of treatment June 10, 2015.
• Intensity: A Lovell Trademark, The Sunday Star (August 7, 1983), S. E1.
• Hit by a truck premier cyclist fighting for his life, The Saturday Star (6 August 1983), C. D1, D3.
• Cycling (unop.) . The Canadian Encyclopedia (July 23, 2012). Date of treatment February 19, 2015. Archived June 10, 2015.

• Jocelyn Lovell - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com