 Tim Mountford, veteran road and track Hall of Famer. Tim Mountford's 12-year international racing career during the 1960s and 70s helped to generate new enthusiasm for bicycle racing in America. A ferocious sprinter who excelled in a variety of disciplines, Tim placed 10th in the sprints at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City and competed with Jack Disney in the tandem sprints in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. At the 1967 Pan American Games, he won a bronze medal in the 10-mile event. Tim dominated men's sprints at the U.S. National Championships, winning gold in 1969, silver in 1968, and bronze in 1966 and 1967. Tim demonstrated his endurance by racing in four individual and team events at the 1970 World Amateur Sprint Track Championships. Mountford was part of four different professional teams, the Dutch Seiko Watch and Canada Dry Teams, the TI Raleigh Bicycle Team and the Shimano USA Team. Tim was famous for his racing versatility. He competed in track sprint and omnium events, Criterium Road Races, Madison Races, and Motor Paced Races. His passion was the winter indoor 6-day track races where he raced a total of 16 races from 1971 to 1974, sometimes teaming with fellow American racer Jack Sines. It was the most ridden by any American rider since the 1940s when 6-day racing was hugely popular in America. Tim's most memorable event was at the Night of Christmas race, 1971, in the Dortmund Sports Arena, Germany, when 12,000 spectators were on their feet cheering as Tim closed four bike lengths. In the final lap, to beat both the current and previous World Sprint Champions, Robert Van Lanker and Patrick Cirque, in the 3-up sprint final while wearing his Stars and Stripes jersey. In 1978, he was the first coach at the first USOC Olympic Training Center, then located at Squaw Valley, California. Tim went on to open three bicycle stores in the Silicon Valley and sponsored a triathlon team and a BMX team. He became a youth sports coach, a church youth leader, and a scout master for the Boy Scouts of America. Tim and his wife have four children and seven grandchildren. Tim Mountford, Veteran Road and Track Hall of Famer.