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Sir John George Walker, KNZM, CBE (born 12 January 1952) is a former middle-distance runner from New Zealand who won the gold medal in the men's 1500 m event at the 1976 Olympics. He was also the first person to run the mile in under 3:50.
Pages in category "New Zealand male middle-distance runners" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. ... John Walker (runner) Nick Willis;
The event was won by John Walker of New Zealand, the nation's first 1500 metres title since 1964 and third overall. Ivo Van Damme 's silver was Belgium's first medal in the event. As of 2023, the winning margin of 0.10 seconds remains the narrowest winning margin in the men's 1500 metres at the Olympics since the introduction of fully automatic ...
John Walker – runner, Olympic champion Nick Willis – runner, Commonwealth champion, Olympic silver medallist John Young - ultra distance runner; first person to run from Wellington to Auckland 1962 and Bluff to Cape Reinga 1964; first person to run across the Nulabhour Plain in Australia 1968
Auckland, New Zealand 20,000 m walk (track) 1:25:53.8 Craig Barrett: 19 July 1998 North Shore City, New Zealand 20 km walk (road) 1:21:12 [d] Quentin Rew: 19 February 2017 Oceania Race Walking Championships: Adelaide, Australia [26] Two hours walk (track) 27820 m+ Craig Barrett: 19 July 1998 North Shore City, New Zealand 30,000 m walk (track) 2 ...
New Zealand's John Walker, who with a 3:49.4 performance in August 1975 became the first man to run the mile under 3:50, ran 135 sub-four-minute miles during his career (during which he was the first person to run over 100 sub-four-minute miles), and American Steve Scott has run the most sub-four-minute miles, with 136.
Albert Archibald Jelley CNZM OBE (born 13 August 1922) is a New Zealand athletics coach who has coached leading New Zealand athletes including John Walker and Hamish Carson. [1] He has been an athletics coach for over six decades and coached at Olympic level up until his mid-90s.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 80 athletes, 71 men and 9 women, and 29 officials. [1] The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was wrestler David Aspin . In protest at a tour of South Africa by the All Blacks team early in the year, Congo 's official Jean-Claude Ganga led a boycott of 28 African nations as the International ...