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The Dunc Gray Velodrome is located at Bass Hill approximately 5 kilometers south of the Sydney suburb of Bankstown. The Dunc Gray Velodrome was opened on November 28 1999 and is named after Edgar "Dunc" Gray, the first Australian to win a cycling Gold Medal at the Olympic Games (Los Angeles 1932).
In April 2000 it hosted the 'The Bankstown Millennium Buzz' performance in celebrating the Olympics and the millennium year. It hosted six days of Track Cycling events at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as Paralympic cycling.