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Legends
Athletics New Zealand has a history that deserves to be valued, preserved, and promoted.
The Legends section of our website is a key part of the process. It makes available informed biographies of our greatest athletes and coaches in a form readily accessible by all. The texts in Legends are freely available for citation, preferably with the courtesy of acknowledgement.
We will continue to add to this collection, as we fill gaps and add our more recent outstanding Olympic, Paralympic, and World competitors such as Dame Valerie Adams, Peter Martin and Tom Walsh. Legends is offered here in the belief that the achievements of New Zealand’s past are a living part of its present and its future.
Dame Yvette Corlett (nee Williams)
Born: 25 April 1929
Discipline: Long jump, Javelin, Discus, Shot Put
Club: Otago Athletic Club, Pakuranga Athletics Club
Dave McKenzie
Born: 1943
Discipline: Marathon
Club: Greymouth Athletic Club
Dave Norris
Born: 14 December 1939
Discipline: Triple Jump, Long Jump
Club: Western Suburbs, North Harbour Bays
Denise Cook
Born: 1966
Discipline: Shot Put, Discus, Javelin, Club Throw
Club: Central North Island
Derek Turnbull
Born: 1926
Discipline: 800m to Marathon - Masters
Club: Invercargill
Dick Quax
Born: 1 January 1948
Discipline: 1,500m, 5,000m, 10,000m
Club: Auckland University Athletics club
Dick Tayler
Born: 12 August 1948
Discipline: 10,000m
Club: A Harriers Club in Otago
Doreen Porter-Shann
Born: 21 July 1941
Discipline: 100 yards, 100m, 200m
Club: Western Suburbs Athletic & Harrier Club
Eddie Gray
Born: 1944
Discipline: Cross country, Road, 10,000m
Club: Greymouth AC
Eve Rimmer
Born: 1937
Discipline: Javelin, Shot Put, Discus, Pentathlon
Club: Parafed Bay of Plenty
Graham Condon
Born: 1949
Discipline: Discus, Slalom, Marathon
Club: Parafed Canterbury
Harold Nelson
Born: 1923
Discipline: Mile, 3 miles, 6 miles and cross country
Club: Civil Service, Dunedin Nelson Harriers