The Most Famous

CYCLISTS from Jamaica

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This page contains a list of the greatest Jamaican Cyclists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,613 Cyclists, 1 of which were born in Jamaica. This makes Jamaica the birth place of the 52nd most number of Cyclists behind Malta, and Brazil.

Top 1

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jamaican Cyclists of all time. This list of famous Jamaican Cyclists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. David Weller (b. 1957)

With an HPI of 32.10, David Weller is the most famous Jamaican Cyclist.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

David Weller (born 11 February 1957) is a retired Jamaican track cyclist. Weller won a bronze medal in 1000 metres time trial at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, becoming the first (and still the only) Jamaican to win an Olympic medal in another sport than athletics. At the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984, Weller finished sixth as a result of a serious pre-Olympic competition injury received in a crash in Medellin, Colombia two months before his 1984 Olympic competition.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Jamaican cyclists born between 1957 and 1957. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Jamaican cyclists include David Weller.

Living Jamaican Cyclists

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