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Tom Simpson (1937–1967) was a British male sport cyclist and athlete. Born in Haswell, he represented the United Kingdom in track cycling, road bicycle racing, and cycle sport. During his career, he was a member of the Peugeot cycling team, Saint-Raphaël-Gitane-Dunlop, and Alcyon. He participated in the Vuelta a España, the Tour de France, and the 1956 Summer Olympics. Simpson resided in Haswell and spoke English.
Simpson died on July 13, 1967, at Mont Ventoux. The cause of death was heart failure, resulting from natural causes. He was buried in Nottinghamshire.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1917
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Lower than low
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1980-07-10
Discography
- Jessica1997
- I Wanna Love You Forever1999
- Sweet Kisses1999
- Where You Are2000
- I Think I’m in Love With You2000
- Irresistible: Remixes2001
- Irresistible2001
- Irresistible2001
- Irresistible2001
- A Little Bit2001
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 273
- Total plays
- 493
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tom+Simpson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,700x
- A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,797x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,638x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,571x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1959
- Saint-Raphaël–R. Geminiani–Dunlop
- 1962
- Gitane–Leroux–Dunlop–R. Geminiani
- Full name
- Thomas Simpson
- Nickname
- Major Simpson
- Born
- ( 1937-11-30 ) 30 November 1937, Haswell, County Durham , England
- Died
- 13 July 1967 (1967-07-13) (aged 29), Mont Ventoux , Vaucluse, France
- Height
- 1.81 m (5 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)
- Discipline
- Road and track
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 1960 1961
- Rapha–Gitane–Dunlop
- 1963 1967
- Peugeot–BP–Englebert
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tom
- Family name
- Simpson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Haswell
- Place of death
- Mont Ventoux
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Tom Simpson c1966.jpg
- Residence
- Haswell
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Tom Simpson (cyclist)
- date of birth
- 1937-11-30
- date of death
- 1967-07-13
- place of burial
- Nottinghamshire
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager before taking up track cycling, specialising in pursuit races. He won a bronze medal for track cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
In 1959, at age 21, Simpson was signed by the French professional road-racing team Saint-Raphaël–R. Geminiani–Dunlop. He advanced to their first team (Rapha–Gitane–Dunlop) the following year, and won the 1961 Tour of Flanders. Simpson then joined Gitane–Leroux–Dunlop–R. Geminiani; in the 1962 Tour de France he became the first British rider to wear the yellow jersey, finishing sixth overall.
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