Bernadette Swinnerton was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 racing cyclist. She came second in the 1969 world road championship

UCI Road World Championships

The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale...

 in Czechoslovakia, 1m 10s behind Audrey McElmury

Audrey McElmury

Audrey McElmury was the first American to win the world road cycling championship. She won in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1969, having fallen and remounted her bike...

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Bernardette Swinnerton was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the eldest of seven children. Her parents, Roy and Doris Swinnerton, ran a cycle shop in Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...

. Bernardette Swinnerton has recently retired after 40 years of teaching, spending the last 17 years of her career as a headteacher in Blythe Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent. She has 3 grown children, Jennifer, Kevin & Danielle; and 4 grandchildren.

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