newcastlecycling

You might want to add some names from the earlier years as we have one of the best sprinters that came out of Australia here in Newcastle.



Ron Baensch who has 3 world professional sprint medals 2 silver and a bronze, and also was 4th in the 1960 Olympic sprint and 3rd in the 1962 amateur world sprints, as well as a heap of other victories around Europe for many years while he was competing there as a pro.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19631202&id=KUARAAAAIBAJ&sjid=npYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4923,114803

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19620912&id=l4UQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=K5UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3928,1681558

Here is a bit of a list of some of his world sprint results the translation is not so good.

He also raced 6 day races and did quite a lot of road racing as well, and he was a bit of a Aussie larrikin and has some great stories to tell, he also is a great guy who put lots of time into training the Weapon and other riders in the arts of track, I learned a lot from Ron when he was training me when I was younger.

There is also Bob Ryan who had a list as long as my arm of Australian pro sprint gold medals, and it looks like the sprint runs in the family as young Matt has the kind of explosive speed needed to be a great sprinter.