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Raymond 'Ray' Charles Booty (3 September 1932 – 25 August 2012),〔 sometimes nicknamed 'The Boot', was an English road bicycle racer. In 1956 he was the first man to beat four hours for the individual time trial. Booty rode for Ericsson Wheelers Cycling Club, a since-disbanded Nottinghamshire cycling club, and the Army Cycling Union. He won the national time trial championship every year from 1955 to 1959. ==The first sub-four hour 100== Booty broke the record in the 1956 national championship with 4h 1m 52s. The next event was the Bath Road '100' on Bank Holiday Monday 6 August 1956. The course was west of Reading, through Theale, Pangbourne, Wallingford, Shillingford, Abingdon and back down the A4 to finish near where it started. Booty rode a Raleigh bicycle with an fixed gear to 3h 58m 28s. The second man, future professional Stan Brittain was beaten by 12 minutes. Booty had ridden from Nottingham to the start the day before - . For his race he was awarded a medal by ''Cycling'' and a certificate from the RTTC. The ''Daily Herald'' reported the record, speaking of 'Booty the incomparable', and the ''News Chronicle'' said: 'Rider crashes four-hour barrier'〔Woodland, L. (2005), ''This Island Race'', Mousehold Press, ISBN 1-874739-36-6, p. 130〕 He was awarded the F. T. Bidlake Memorial Prize in 1956. The citation read: ''Raymond Charles Booty For his superlative ride of 3 hrs. 58 mins. 28 secs. in the Bath Road Hundred of 1956, this being the first time one hundred miles had ever been ridden on a bicycle, out and home, inside four hours.''〔(The F. T. Bidlake Memorial Plaque: Recipients )〕 Booty recalled: :It was one of those lovely sunny summer mornings you crave for when you are time-trialling. It was calm, as I remember, and eventually it became very hot. And I was really having to hang on in the last half hour. I remember it was a real struggle. I knew I was on to a good ride if I could hang on. The thing I remember about that particular event was at the finish, and I was absolutely shattered at the finish. And I sat down. And, of course, when I finished I realised just how hot it was. I was desperate for some drink and somebody came with all they'd got, which was a bottle of milk. And it was sour. And he said it was sour. It was all he'd got. It was really sour. But I drank it all. That was the thing I remember mainly about that event.〔Cycling Weekly 〕 Also in 1956 he signed the Golden Book of Cycling. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ray Booty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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