Born in Stockport, Cheshire, Newton began cycling in 1946, with the Manchester Wheelers' Club.

There he won the bronze medal in the men's 4,000 metres team pursuit, alongside Donald Burgess, George Newberry, and Ronald Stretton.

Newton was completing an apprenticeship to become an electrician at the time he was competing, and said the training consisted of 40 hours a week, riding his bike with a toolkit on his back.

[1] An off-road cycling route from Marple to Stockport, the Alan Newton Way, is named in his honour.

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