Ernie Mills Cyclist - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Ernie Mills Cyclist
- Ernest Victor Mills (10 April 1913 – 1972), commonly known as Ernie Mills, was an English amateur cyclist who, with his teammate Bill Paul, set the British 12-hour record on a tandem in 1934 and re-established it in 1936 with a 'world's best performance'.
- In 1937, in Italy, they set the world one-hour tandem record which stood for 63 years until September 2000.
- The Addiscombe Cycle Club teammates set 20 world and British records at both short and long distances.Mills represented Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin and won a bronze medal in the Team Pursuit.
- At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney Australia, he won a bronze medal in the 1,000 metre Time-TrialIn 1937 Cycling Weekly jointly awarded him and Bill Paul their own page in the Golden Book of Cycling.
