Charlie Walsh

David Barry Vivian Walsh, O.A.M., Dip.T.(Tech), better known as Charlie Walsh, is a former racing cyclist, cycling coach and academic.

Walsh's placings in Australian Amateur and then Professional Championships were : 1st place - once 2nd place - twice 3rd place - four times 4th place - fourteen times.

In South Australian State Championships he was placed first more than 70 times from sprint events to 125 mile road events, and toppled or set in excess of 25 State records.

Walsh won more than 1,000 events in 25 years of racing at national and state level, including the Austral Wheel Race in 1969 on a 50yd handicap, and the Melbourne Cup on Wheels.

From 1985 Walsh was a cycling coach with Michael Turtur at the South Australian Sports Institute until about 1987. He was the National Coaching Director for the Australian Cycling Federation from 1980 developing and writing Level I & II books and writing the draft of the Level III book for coaching courses, and conducting coaching courses throughout Australia from 1979 to about 1985. He was the overall Head Cycling Coach of both track & road cycling at the Australian Institute of Sport from 1987 to 2001 when he oversaw Australia's rise in world track cycling to number one in 1993 and 1994. "Charlie" was Olympic Cycling Coach at six Olympic Games, fifteen Senior World Cycling Championships, five Commonwealth Games and two Goodwill Games.

Over his career as coach, Australia won two Olympic gold medals, nine silver, nine bronze and ten world titles. He coached Michael Grenda, Michael Turtur, Dean Woods, and Kevin Nichols, to win the 4,000m team pursuit at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

1981. Gained a National Commissaires Diploma in Melbourne, Australia.

1981. Gained an F.I.A.C./U.C.I./Olympic Solidarity Committee, International Cycling Coaches Diploma in New Zealand.

1982. Gained an F.I.A.C./U.C.I. International Cycling Coaches Diploma in East Germany.

1985. At the request of the International Olympic Solidarity Committee and U.C.I., he lectured at the International Coaches' Course in New Zealand.

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