Ian Browne (cyclist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian track cyclist
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Ian Browne (cyclist)
- Ian Browne, also known as "Joey" Browne (born 22 June 1931) is a former Australian track cyclist who along with Tony Marchant won the 2000 m tandem event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
- Unusually tall and strongly built for a cyclist, Browne had little formal training and won his first Australian title in 1953 in the 10 mile event.
- Browne did not team up with Marchant until early in 1956 and they promptly won the tandem event at the national championships to earn national selection.
- The pair were eliminated after losing their first two races but were given a reprieve when the Soviet Union pair were hospitalised in a crash and forced to withdraw.
- Thereafter Marchant and Browne were unbeaten and progressed to an unlikely Olympic gold.
- Browne's combination with Marchant was broken after the Olympics when the latter retired.
- In 1958, Browne won the 10 mile event at the national titles and went on to win the event at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
- Browne went on to compete in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics in the tandem event, both times with new partners, but both times he was eliminated in the repechage round.
- In 1964, he became the oldest ever track cyclist to represent Australia at the Olympics at the age of 33.
- He won the last of his national titles at the age of 37 in 1968 in the tandem event but was overlooked for Olympic selection by Australian officials.
- He retired and later was involved in cycling administration.
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