William Robert Hammond (2 July 1886 – 13 January 1960) was a British

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

who competed in the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ...

. He was born in

Eastbourne Eastbourne () is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the la ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

,1901 Census - 22 Broadway, Bexleyheath, KentEngland & Wales Birth Indexes, Jul-Sep Quarter 1886, William Robert Hammond,

Registration District, Volume 2b Page 81 and was part of the team which won the silver medal in the Team road race. In the individual road race he finished 22nd. Hammond was the son of David Hammond, a painter, and Emily, a laundress. At 15, he was a compass maker in

Bexleyheath Bexleyheath is a town in south-east London, England. It had a population of 31,929 as at 2011. Bexleyheath is located south-east of Charing Cross, and forms part of the London Borough of Bexley. It is identified in the London Plan as one of ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

References

External links

William Hammond's profile at databaseOlympics
1886 births 1960 deaths English male cyclists Cyclists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Great Britain Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in cycling Sportspeople from Eastbourne Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{England-cycling-bio-stub