词条 | Guthrie, Jimmy |
释义 | Guthrie, Jimmy Scottish athlete byname of Andrew James Guthrie born 1897, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scot. died 1937, near Chemnitz, Ger. Scottish motorcycle-racing champion who won the Tourist Trophy (Tourist Trophy races) race on the Isle of Man six times. He thought he had won a seventh in 1935 until a recalculation of times revealed he had lost by four seconds. He set several world records during his career, including the world one-hour mark of 114.092 mph (1935). Two years later, he won the European championships in both the senior and junior classes. Guthrie died in a racing crash. In 1939, a memorial to him was placed on the Tourist Trophy course. |
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