Triple Olympic gold medalist Sir Peter Snell is one of just 24 athletes inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Hall of Fame today (NZT).
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It has been 50 years since the great Peter Snell set the mile world record at Cooks Gardens and last night Whanganui celebrated the anniversary of its most famous sporting moment.
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Fifty years ago Peter Snell left New Zealand a nobody and came back from the Rome Olympics with a gold medal.
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Today a Lovelock memorial was unveiled near the abandoned mining settlement of Crushington, where he was born.
Yesterday he was knighted; today Sir Peter Snell was cast in bronze.
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