Shaun Wallace - Inducted 2003

He came from Great Britain, engineering degree in hand, to ride for Bicycling Magazine’s Madison Cup in 1980. Shaun Wallace finished last and vowed it would never happen again. He returned in 1984 to dominate the track until the rise of Marty Nothstein in the early ‘90s. His training methods were unorthodox for their time, focusing on oxygen debt and perceived rate of exertion instead of heart rates and watts, but they worked to near perfection. His good looks made him the fantasy material of many teenage girls while his eagerness to mix it up in the keirin and Madison found legions of boys eager to adapt to his tactics. He earned a tribute night at the track in 1997 and still continued to ride.