Gordon Singleton

Gordon Singleton was a Canadian world-record holding track cyclist. In 1982, he became the first Canadian cyclist to win a world championship. He was the first, and only, cyclist in history to simultaneously hold world records in all three of track cycling's sprint races: the 200m, 500m and 1000m distances, all in a 24-hour span from October 9–10 in 1980. An Olympic racer, he was deprived of competing in the 1980 Summer Olympics at the peak of his career by Canada's boycott of those games in Moscow. He also competed and won gold medals in the 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games, and the 1979 Puerto Rico Pan Am Games for Canada. At the end of 1986, he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada. In his middle-age, he continued to cycle and took part in Master Series races, getting a bronze medal at the Canadian Nationals for his age group in 2014. He was inducted into the Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame in October 2015 along with some of his teammates from the 1970s and 1980s. His hometown of Niagara Falls, Ontario celebrated him many times over his life, including in 2004, as their best athlete in its first 100 years. After his cycling career was over, he took over his father's automotive parts business in Niagara Falls. In 2023, he was diagnosed with Cancer, and died from the disease in March 2024. ^{Gordon Singleton, Canadian Olympic cyclist (d. 2024)}

9 August 1956

Born on the same birth day (9 August): Abdi İpekçi • Adewale Ogunleye • Albert Seedman • Camilla Wicks • Chuck Essegian • Evelina Haverfield • Filippo Inzaghi • Francesco Cetti • J. James Exon • James Naughtie • Jay Leggett • Johann Michael Bach • Linn Ullmann • Mikaël Silvestre • Mike Lamb • Nitin Chandrakant Desai • Roy Hodgson

Born in the same month (August 1956): Adam Arkin • Alvin Greenidge • Charalampos Xanthopoulos • Gail Berman • Jackée Harry • Jon Tester • Kim Cattrall • Lorraine Desmarais • Peter Taylor (Australian cricketer) • Robert Syms • Sandeep Patil • Steve Whiteman • Steve Yarbrough (writer) • Tsai Ing-wen