Percy Osborn

{{Short description|Australian cyclist (1901–1991)}}

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Percy Osborn (1901-1991)[https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=173715 ProCyclingStats] was an Australian racing cyclist.

Osborn from Koo Wee Rup, Victoria competed in the 1928 Tour de France with fellow Australians Hubert Opperman and Ernest Bainbridge and New Zealander Harry Watson where he finished 38th. He was 22 hours 1 minute and 49 seconds behind the winner Nicolas Frantz. The Australians cycling tour of Europe was financed by a fund raising campaign run by The Sporting Globe.

In 1927 Osborn was the fastest professional in the Goulburn to Sydney Classic with a time of 5hrs 54mins, the first time the race has been completed in less than 6 hours.{{cite web|title=Aussie Highlights at Goulburn - Sydney Cycle Classic|url=http://www.russmullo.com/goulburn2citi.html|website=Australian Cycling Memories website|accessdate=24 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725175815/http://www.russmullo.com/goulburn2citi.html|archive-date=25 July 2015|url-status=dead}} The feature race of 1927 was the Dunlop Grand Prix, which at the time was the biggest cycling race in the British Empire and the richest race in the world.{{cite news|title=Opperman scores|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZTR19271124.2.41.14|accessdate=24 July 2015|work=New Zealand Truth|date=24 November 1927}} The race was held in four stages from the 14–19 November 1927, covering 690 miles (1110 km).{{cite web|title=Cup Trophy - Cycling, Awarded to Hubert Opperman, C.B. Kellow, Dunlop Road Race (Dunlop Grand Prix), Victoria, 1927|url=http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/414072/cup-trophy-cycling-awarded-to-hubert-opperman-c-b-kellow-dunlop-road-race-dunlop-grand-prix-victoria-1927|website=Museum Victoria website|accessdate=24 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724120917/http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/414072/cup-trophy-cycling-awarded-to-hubert-opperman-c-b-kellow-dunlop-road-race-dunlop-grand-prix-victoria-1927|archive-date=24 July 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} Osborn finished sixth behind Opperman, Watson and Bainbridge.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140807021 |title=Dunlop Grand Prix |newspaper=The Australasian |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=26 November 1927 |page=72 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Osborn lived and worked in Koo Wee Rup for the rest of his life, and died while a resident at Koo Wee Rup’s Killara hostel.{{cite web|last1=Slade|first1=Andrew|title=Koo-Wee-Rups cycling heritage|url=http://www.kooweebypass.com.au/2014/blackfish-august-2014.pdf|website=Koo Wee Rup Blackfish, August 2014|accessdate=24 July 2015}}