Peter Graham: The man who raced and beat five world champions

Cycling Weekly visited Peter Graham, a man with a habit of beating world champions

Photo: Chris Catchpole

As a three-time winner of the RTTC National Hill-Climb Championships and a perennial figure at time trials, road races and track events throughout the 1950s and 60s, Peter Graham is well known to riders of a certain generation.

But the Lancastrian, now 81, doesn’t just have a reputation as one of the country’s finest domestic riders during his heyday. In 2013, it dawned on him that he also holds a feat as romantic as it is remarkable: across his 40-year racing career he beat five world champions. Just how did he manage that?

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