Lance Payne

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Lance Payne
Personal information
Full nameLancelot David Payne
Born(1933-04-11)11 April 1933
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Died16 November 2011(2011-11-16) (aged 78)
Nelson, New Zealand
Major wins
One-day races and classics
National Road Race Championships (1952, 1954, 1958)

Lancelot David Payne (11 April 1933 – 16 November 2011) was a New Zealand racing cyclist, who competed for his country in the road race at two British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and won three national road race titles.

Biography

Born in Palmerston North on 11 April 1933, Payne was the son of David Payne and Rona Angelina (Mavis) Payne (née Thompson). [1] [2] He grew up on a farm at Glen Oroua and left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a Post Office clerk and took up cycling in 1950. [3] Two years later, he won the first of his three New Zealand national road race titles, with the other victories coming in 1954 and 1958. [3] [4]

Payne represented New Zealand in the road race at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was unplaced after being part of a two-man breakaway with Malcolm Campbell of Wales that led for most of the race before being overtaken on the penultimate lap. [5] Four years later, Payne again competed in British Empire and Commonwealth Games road race. He was in the leading group of three riders with 11 kilometres (7 mi) remaining, but punctured and eventually finished in 11th place. [3] [6]

In 1959, Payne was struck by a car in a head-on collision at Paremata, but he recovered and continued his amateur cycling career, winning the Tour of Manawatū in 1962, before retiring two years later. [3]

In 1980, Payne left the Post Office and ran a dairy at Plimmerton for a time. He then worked as the caretaker on Mana Island for the Department of Lands and Survey. After he removed the last cattle from the island, it was designated as a reserve. He then served as the lighthouse keeper on The Brothers in Cook Strait, until it was automated and no longer staffed in 1990. [3]

Payne died in Nelson on 16 November 2011. [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Death search: registration number 2011/23262". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Births". Manawatu Standard. Vol. 53, no. 115. 12 April 1933. p. 1. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lampp, Peter (17 December 2020). "Manawatū cycling great Lance Payne could endure the pain". Manawatū Standard. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "National road titles". The Press. Vol. 90, no. 27465. 27 September 1954. p. 12. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Cycling road race". The Press. Vol. 90, no. 27423. 9 August 1954. p. 11. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  6. ↑ "England wins road race". The Press. Vol. 97, no. 28649. 28 July 1958. p. 13. Retrieved 14 December 2021.


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