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New Zealand running legend Peter Snell poses for a photoshoot at Cooks Gardens, Wanganui, New Zealand (Photosport)

Snell named in Hall of Fame

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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Fifty-year anniversary for Snell record video

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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Triple Olympic champion Peter Snell

The Greatest video

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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Jack Lovelock

Lovelock's 100th birthday marked video

Today a Lovelock memorial was unveiled near the abandoned mining settlement of Crushington, where he was born.

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Sir Peter Snell immortalised in Wanganui video

Yesterday he was knighted; today Sir Peter Snell was cast in bronze.

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