Frank Grose

Career

In 1928 while in a training race with three other cyclists, they all crashed and Grose was seriously injured, breaking his pelvic bone and chipping his hip bone. While he overcame medical advice that his cycling career was ended, he was out of consideration for the 1928 Olympics. In the 1938 British Empire Games he competed in the road race, and was captain of the cycling team

Achievements

• He won the Round-the-Gorges race nine times, and was a champion over almost every distance from half a mile to 100 miles.