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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sydney, Australia | 9 April 1934||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 6 June 1962 Isle of Man | (aged 28)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Edward Phillis (9 April 1934 – 6 June 1962) was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.[1][2] He won the 1961 125cc motorcycle road racing World Championship and was the first person to lap the Isle of Man TT mountain circuit at over 100 mph on a pushrod engined motorcycle. He was also the first person to win a World Championship motorcycle race on a Japanese machine.