Damian McDonald

Who was Damian McDonald?

Damian McDonald was an Australian road bicycle racer, who was born in Wangaratta. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

In 1992 he was a reserve for four-man pursuit team at the Barcelona Olympics, barely missing out on a medal when the team won silver. He won a gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games as part of the road time trial team with Henk Vogels, Phil Anderson and Brett Dennis. He also won gold at the inaugural Malaysian Tour de Langkawi in 1996, and also represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was inducted as life member of the Blackburn Cycling Club in Melbourne in 1992. He was married to Bree McDonald, the manager of the Melbourne Vixens netball side. Their son Lachlan was born in October, 2005.

McDonald died on 23 March 2007. He was one of three men killed in a collision and explosion in the Burnley Tunnel in Melbourne, Victoria.