Richard Davis Johnstone (23 June 1936 – 18 November 2022) was a New Zealand track and

road cyclist Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling in which cyclists ride on paved roadways. It includes Recreational cycling, recreational, Road bicycle racing, racing, Bicycle commuting, commuting, and utility cycling. As users of the road, ...

who participated in the

1964 Summer Olympic games The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequ ...

, the

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

and

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

. Johnstone went as an official to two

, 1986 Edinburgh, Scotland and 1994 Victoria, Canada. He was elected as an official of the boycotted

1980 Moscow Olympic Games The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

. Johnstone was a New Zealand National Track cycling coach (1976–1994) and coached the winning team Tour of the Future (1992) in Arizona, United States. He was a New Zealand Cycling Selector. Johnstone died in

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on 18 November 2022, at the age of 86.Dick Johnstone
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* 1936 births 2022 deaths Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games New Zealand male cyclists Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand Cyclists from Invercargill 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub