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John Ephraim Sibbit ( Jack Sibbit) (4 March 1895 – 5 August 1950) was a British track cycling who won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
By age 41 he had held twelve national titles including tandem sprints, with Dennis Horn. Sibbit built, rode and sold his own 'Jack E Sibbit' bicycles from premises at 475 Stockport Road, Manchester.
He won the tandem championship eight times - in 1924, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1936 and 1937. Sibbit rode on the front of the tandem; Ernest Chambers was his stoker for five of the national championship victories. His other national partners were A. White (Rover CC) in 1924, Ernest Higgins (Manchester Wheelers) in 1931 and Dennis Horn (Norwich ABC) in 1932.
Sibbit held three British tandem track records with Chambers. The two won the Olympic tandem event in 1928. Sibbit rode in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. By age 41 he had held twelve national titles including tandem sprints, with Horn.
From 1922, Sibbit represented Britain in world championships in England, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. He retired from racing in 1938 to become an official. He was British team manager at the 1948 and 1949 world championships, in the Netherlands and Denmark.
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