Bill Humphreys out to prove three world championships across 50 years a worthy challenge at 80 years old

It was 50 years ago when Bill Humphreys participated in his first world championships, riding for Team USA in Barcelona at the 1973 Road Worlds. He was a domestique back then and did not even try to contend for a medal, the gold that year taken by Italian Felice Gimondi and Belgian Eddy Merckx finishing one spot off the podium.

In 1999, 26 years on, Humphreys made his second world championship team, this time representing at mountain bike worlds in Mont-Saint-Anne in Québec. There he finished third in his age group.