Maxwell Langshaw

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Maxwell Langshaw
Personal information
Bornc.1941 [1]
Sydney, Australia
Medal record
Track cycling
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1962 Perth Men's Pursuit

Maxwell Langshaw (born c.1941) was an Australian cyclist who won a gold medal at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games (now Commonwealth Games). [2]

Biography

Langshaw represented the 1962 Australian team at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in his home country of Perth, Australia, [3] where he won the gold medal in the individual pursuit race. [4] [5]

Langshaw was a flying instructor in Sydney for five years and then worked for an airline company in Melbourne before moving to Sunbury in 1979. He retired from flying in 2006. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Saab Captain Max Langshaw retires after 32 years with Kendell and Rex". The Rex Group. 14 July 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Maxwell Langshaw". Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "Cycling Road Road Race - Men Perth 1962". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "Cycling" . Birmingham Daily Post. 29 November 1962. p. 12. Retrieved 30 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Cycling" . Liverpool Daily Post. 30 November 1962. p. 23. Retrieved 30 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Max Langshaw on spending much of his life in the clouds". Star Weekly. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2025.


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