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Panagiotidis and Alcock selected to ride in Wellington 1957

8/3/2016

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Two riders, Alex Panagiotidis (Senior) and Ray Alcock (Junior) were selected to represent Otago-Southland in Wellington in 1957.  Six other Invercargill riders were selected to ride in Canterbury.

Panagiotidis, was in fine form in the late 1950's on grass and hard tracks.  It was in 1954 that he came runner up to Warren Johnston (Waikato), who was selected to go to the Melbourne Olympic games in 1956. 
Alcock that year was a promising young rider who had many wins on the grass.
A team of 11 riders who were competing against the Canterbury team were;
J. Holloway, W. Agnew, J. Anderson, T. Inneson, B. Hardy, T. Tindale  (Invercargill), B. O'Connor, C. Bremner, N. Howell, N. Dryden, B. Finnie (Dunedin).
Two New Zealand representatives in Pat Wylie and Les Lock were amongst the top riders in the race.

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Helen panagiotidis
9/11/2016 08:08:44 pm

My daughter discovered this on website and showed me!! It was so great to read as my father in my mind was a great athlete I have always been so proud of him

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Maria Panagiotidis
9/12/2016 02:36:54 am

Wow how amazing to read abt my father, alwaz knew he was a talented cyclist ,it was a shame he wasn't allowed to represent NZ ,when he wouldn't nationalize, but proud to say he went on and played soccer till his mid 40's wth such passion, his enthusiasm was an inspiration for each of his children, nice to read the memories

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