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Jocelyn Lovell

Class of 1997

Summary

🏅 Inducted in 1997
🚴 Cycling
🏃 Athlete

Biography

Jocelyn Lovell is a premier cyclist who still hods the Pan American record for the 1000 metre time trial. At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, he won the Gold, Silver and Bronze. These were the first such medals for a Canadian cyclist in 32 years.

Jocelyn competed in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympic games. No other Commonwealth cyclist has won more Commonwealth medals.

While residing in Etobicoke from 1972 to 1983 Jocelyn was honored by mayor Dennis Flynn for his outstanding performance at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. At the time he was also ranked second in the world at the 1978 World Cycling Championships in Munich.

In 1975 he was named Canada’s Athlete of the Year and wa inducted into Canada’s Sorts Hall of Fame in 1985. Paralysed in a training accident, Jocelyn is the Canadian Co-ordinator of the cure research organization of the Canadian Spinal Cord Society.