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Arthur Leslie Lydiard ONZ OBE (6 July 1917 – 11 December 2004) was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding athletics coaches of all time and is credited with popularising the sport of running and making it commonplace across the sporting world.
New Zealand also sent teams for the Australasian Athletics Championships during its lifetime from 1890 to 1927. Separate annual championship events are held for the 10,000 metres , 3000 metres , combined track and field events , cross country running , mountain running , road running and racewalking events.
It was particularly pronounced in the United States and occurred in other countries including the United Kingdom and other European countries, Australia and New Zealand. [1] [2] The boom was primarily a 'jogging' movement in which running was generally limited to personal physical activity and often pursued alone for recreation and fitness.
Athletics New Zealand (ANZ) is the national governing body for athletics in New Zealand. This includes responsibility for Track and field , cross country running , road running and racewalking . [ 1 ]
North Shore City, New Zealand 4 × 100 m relay: 38.99 New Zealand Dallas Roberts David Falealili James Dolphin Chris Donaldson: 19 November 2005 [e] Sydney, Australia 4 × 200 m relay: 1:23.82 Donald McDonald Dallas Roberts Gene Pateman Craig Bearda 25 January 2004 North Shore City, New Zealand 4 × 400 m relay: 3:05.84 New Zealand Shaun ...
At London's famous Hyde Park at around 11:00 on a crisp Saturday morning, runners gather at some benches - some tall and lean, others broad and sturdy, a few logging into the Strava app, but one ...
Early in 1980 at Stanford Stadium Quax missed Jos Hermens' 15 km world record by five seconds, running a New Zealand national record of 43:01.7. [4] In his later career Quax switched his focus to the marathon, running 2:11.13 in his debut for 4th place at the Nike OTC Marathon in 1979, at that time the fastest debut marathon in history. [5]
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