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Jack Walsh

Jack became one of Australia's elite cyclists having won 25 Australian Championship Titles.

Cycling
1921 – 2010
  • Status: Pending
    1946
    Won the half,2,5,10 & 62 and a half mile at Championship Bougainville,Solomon Islands
  • Status: Pending
    1947
    Won 1,2,& 10 mile at Championship of NSW.
  • Status: Pending
    1964
    Decorated by the Queen receiving an OBE for services to sport and the community.
  • Status: Pending
    1979
    Conceived and promoted the Australian Cyclist of the Year Awards.

Beginnings

Jack resided in Mimosa Road, Greenacre and remained in the district for over 50 years.

In 1935, at 14 years of age, would win his first junior New South Wales championship at the Canterbury velodrome.

Achievements

The cycling titles resumed after the war and Jack would win the Australian professional one-mile title in 1946 and the next year won a further three - the half, two and five-mile titles.

Jack would win 76 Championships including twenty three Australian Championships and he would beat every man he met in Sprint Match Races.

Post Representation

In 1946 he opened a bike shop in Punchbowl which he ran to 2009. After retiring from competitive cycling, he became interested in the St Vincent de Paul Society and he would help set up St John's College in Lakemba.

Walsh never lost his passion for cycling and promoted many Australian professional cycling championships. He initiated the Oppy Awards, staging the first Australian Cyclist of the Year sponsored by the Commonwealth Bank in the late 1970s. He was also a Life member of The NSW League of Wheelman.