Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since New Zealand's Peter Snell stormed from behind to win the 800-meter race in the 1960 Olympics, he has dominated the middle distances like no other runner in history. He set new world records for 800 meters (1 min. 44.3 sec.), 880 yds. (1 min. 45.1 sec.), 1,000 meters (2 min. 16.6 sec.), and one mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.); he outclassed all challengers at the 1964 Olympics, won both the 800-meter and the 1,500-meter races...
Honors followed in his fast footsteps. Queen Elizabeth made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire, promoted him to Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He was New Zealand's new national hero. Then Snell began to think about quitting-while he was ahead. He wanted to spend time with his young wife Sally and at his job in public relations for Rothmans cigarette company in New Zealand. So last fall, he decided to top off his triumphal career with one last world tour...
...work quite as hard as I did for Tokyo," said Snell. "I more or less achieved what I had set out to do and proved myself the best at the Olympics. I endeavored to hold on for the tour, but it just wasn't possible." Fans in New Zealand felt that if Snell had eased up on his training, it was because he had been a reluctant hero from the start, had never been able to summon the insatiable competitive instincts that keep driving most champions. When his superb conditioning faded, so too did his desire...
...money U.S. tour. But by one standard, at least, Thomson at 35 ranks as one of the game's top stars: he has probably won more national championships than any other golfer in the world. Last week, to a collection that already includes seven New Zealand Opens, two Hong Kong Opens, the Philippines Open, the Australian Open and the Spanish Open, he added the British Open-for the fifth time...
...bristling 58 sec. final quarter-mile before Mills breasted the tape barely inches ahead. Timers called it a dead heat, and both will get the record, join other winners at Kiev. Among them: Kansas Schoolboy Jim Ryun, 18, whose 3 min. 55.3 sec. mile surprised observers-including New Zealand's great Peter Snell, 26, who had said earlier that he could not "see how a kid of 18 can break 3:56," saw how when his famed closing kick failed and he finished second...