Tony Brockhurst

In 1968, Brockhurst joined the Leicester Forest Cycling Club, where he teamed up with Pete Mugglestone in the tandem.^[2] In 1969 he won the tandem title with Mugglestone at the British National Tandem Sprint Championships^[3] and made his England debut in 1969.^[4]

In 1970, the tandem pair won a joint award for the Memorial Trophy, for the best service to the club, in addition to breaking club and county records over varying distances.^[5] Later that year he won a second tandem title with Mugglestone at the British National Tandem Sprint Championships.^[1][6]

Brockhurst represented the England team^[7] at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,^[8][9] where he participated in the tandem event. During the tandem event, the pair crashed and suffered injuries, with Mugglestone breaking a collar-bone and suffering concussion.^[10]

Brockhurst was a chartered accountant by profession.^[11]