I've just been reading about Ove Fundin. Between 1956 and 1967 he was never out of the top three in the World finals! And he never owned a bike! He always rode Norwich Stars spare! Of course in those years, if he didn't win it Barry Briggs did!
While he was buggering Freddie Mills!
Jim Laker took 19 wickets in an Ashes test match in the fifties!