Jack Heid
Known as the "Yankee Clipper", Heid won the Eastern
States Championship in 1942 and was New Jersey Senior Champion
in 1942, 1946 and 1947. He was a member of the 1948 Olympic Team
and was a five and twenty five mile national champion. Heid won
bronze at the 1949 World Amateur Sprint Championships.
Bobby Walthour, Sr.
The "Dixie Flyer" won the US Professional Motorpace
Championships in 1902 and 1903. He competed in Europe in 1904 and
won 16 if his first 17 events, going on to win the World Championships
in London in 1904 and Antwerp in 1905. Walthour won a total of
14 six-day races and every motorpace championship in Europe.
Marshall "Major" Taylor
In 1899 Taylor set records in every sprint distance from 1/4 mile
to 2 miles. In that same year, he won two titles at the World Sprint
Championships and became the first black athlete in any sport to
win a world professional championship. He became the National Professional
Track Champion in 1900 and won 42 of 57 meets in Europe in 1901.
John Howard
Howard won the ABLA/USCF Amateur Road Championships in 1968, 1972,
1973 and 1975. He was a member of the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympic
Teams. John won gold at the 1971 Pan Am Games in the road race
event. He was winner of the first 1000 mile Tour of Baja in 1975
and of the Tour de L'Estra in 1972 and the Tour of Newfoundland
in 1974. He was Ironman World Triathlon Champion in 1981. He is
the world record holder for 24 hours at 593 miles and he set the
world cycling speed record at 152 mph.
Audrey McElmury
Audrey was the National Amateur Track (Omnium) Champion in 1966
and 1969. She became the first American to win an Amateur World
Road Race Championship placing first at the World Championships
in Brno, Czechoslovakia. She won the Woman's National Pursuit Championship
and Woman's Amateur Road Championship in 1970. She was the 25 mile
Scratch Champion in April,1966 and set the outdoor banked track
record.
Arthur Zimmerman
Known as the "Flying Yankee" and the "Jersey Skeeter",
he won numerous League of American Wheelman National Championships
in the late 1880s through 1894 when he turned professional. In
1891 he won the 1/2 mile LAW National Championships. He won the
inaugural World Championships in 1893 in Chicago at one and ten
miles. He registered more than 100 victories per season numerous
times.
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