Edward "Teddy" Hale (* 30 May 1864; † 1911) was a British racing cyclist. In 1896 he won the solo-Six Days race in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Teddy Hale started racing bikes at the age of 16 on a penny farthing and became captain of the Gainsborough Cycling Club at the beginning of the 1880s. His first triumph was to set a new record between London and Brighton (approx. 54 miles) in three hours and 35 minuts. In 1885 he set a new 100-mile record in six hours and 59 minuts on a Kangaroo bicycle and a year later he won the prestigious 100-mile road race of the on the Great North Road. At the second 1896 individual Six Days of London in the Agricultural Hall he achieved third place behind Welshman Arthur Linton, who would go on to win the Bordeaux-Paris race later that year, and