Memorabilia from the career of Britain's four-time world cycling champion William Bailey raised £850 at auction ©Gildings Auctioneers

Memorabilia from the career of Britain's four-time world cycling champion William "Bill" Bailey raised £850 ($1,1000/€975) at an auction.

Bailey won the International Cycling Union (UCI) world sprint title in Copenhagen in 1909, Brussels in 1910, Rome in 1911 and Berlin in 1912.

His medals from those events were among the items that went up for sale at Gildings Auctioneers in Market Harborough.

Other items that went up for sale were Bailey's competitor badge from the 1908 Olympic Games in London, where he competed in the sprint and 5,000 metres, failing to reach the final in either event. 

The team badges he was awarded when he was Britain's cycling team manager at the 1936 and 1948 Olympic Games in Berlin and London will also be up for auction.

Bailey's World War One service medals were also auctioned.

Bailey turned professional in March 1914, but could not compete due to World War One.

In 1920, he returned to the track and won a bronze medal in the sprint at the UCI World Championships in Antwerp. 

Bailey died in 1971, aged 82.