Keith Lambert (born 12 June 1947) is a twice former British cycling champion and manager of the British under-23 road race team.[1]
Cycling career
Lambert signed his first professional cycling contract with Falcon cycling team in 1972 under Albert Hitchen the Falcon team manager. His first win as a pro was on Stage Two of the Tour of the West, into Penzance in Cornwall. He rode the 1972 UCI Road World Championships which took place on the 6 August 1972 in Gap, France but punctured twice and did not finish.
Lambert signed with the Holdsworth cycling team for 1974 alongside Les West and Colin Lewis and won the British National Road Race Championships for the first time that year. He raced and finished Paris–Roubaix in 1977 before signing for Viking in 1978. At the 1979 World Championship at Valkenburg aan de Geul Lambert finished in 26th place of just 44 riders finishing including no other British finishers. In 1980 Lambert signed with Weinmann and finished third in the Druivenkoers Overijse behind Fons De Wolf and Rudy Pevenage and Lambert pipped Bill Nickson to the 1980 National Road Championship by an inch for his second British champion title in Redditch.
Lambert joined Falcon in 1981 and then spent six seasons there. He rode the 1982 World Championship at Goodwood and in 1983 Lambert won the National Criterium Championships. In total Lambert won 64 professional races between 1972 and 1987.[2][3]
