Information AboutDunc Gray |
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Gray started competitive cycling with the Goulburn Amateur Cycling Club around 1925. From 1926 to 1941 Dunc Gray won 20 Australian titles, 36 New South Wales state titles, and 36 club championships. On eight occasions he was the NSW 1000m time trial and/or the 1000m sprint winner. In his last years, Dunc Gray lived in Kiama and devoted energy to supporting the Olympic movement, including Melbourne 's bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics and then for Sydney 's successful bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics . The ''Dunc Gray Velodrome '' at Bass Hill , in Sydney's western suburbs, built for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, was named after this iconic Australian cyclist. The ''Speedwell'' bike that Gray rode to fame at the 1932 Olympics is on display at the ''Dunc Gray velodrome''. Speedwell bicycles were manufactured by Charles Bennett, a former Intercolonial Champion of Australia, who was an accomplished bike racer on pennyfathings before Federation in 1901 and became an importer and mass market manufacturer of bicycles under the Speedwell brand. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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