Gordon's Story
Gordon Johnson was still a schoolboy at Victoria’s Essendon High School when chosen to compete on the velodrome at the Tokyo 1964 Games. His father Tassie had competed in cycling at Berlin 1936.
In Tokyo, Johnson competed in the early rounds of the cycling sprint. Four years later at Mexico City 1968, he again contested the early rounds of the sprint and with Hilton Clarke the tandem.
At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, he finished second in the sprint to future Olympic silver medallist John Nicholson and won the tandem.
Johnson turned professional immediately after Edinburgh and went straight to the world championships where he won the sprint title. He was admitted to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1989.
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