Kiwi Quartet Initially Selected for the 2025 World Athletics Championships
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.
Harry Kerr
Born: 28 January 1879
Discipline: 3500m walk, 10 mile walk
Club: Taranaki
Jack Foster
Born: 23 May 1932
Discipline: Marathon, 10,000m, Road Racing, Cross Country
Club: Rotorua
Jack Lovelock
Born: 5 January 1910
Discipline: 1500m, One Mile
Club: West Coast
Jeff Julian
Born: 9 October 1935
Discipline: Marathon
Club: Mt Roskill
John Davies
Born: 1938
Discipline: 800m, 1,500m, Mile
Club: Tokoroa Athletics Club
John Holland
Born: 1926
Discipline: 400m Hurdles, 440 yards
Club: Hamilton Athletic Club, Hawkes Bay Poverty Bay Athletics Club
Sir John Walker
Born: 1952
Discipline: 1,500m / Mile, 5,000m
Club: Manurewa Athletic and Harrier Club
Les Mills
Born: 1 November 1934
Discipline: Shot Put, Discus Throw
Club: Western Suburbs Athletic Club
Lorraine Moller
Born: 1955
Discipline: 1,500m, 3,000m, 10,000m, Marathon
Club: Putaruru Athletics Club
Marise Chamberlain
Born: 5 December 1935
Discipline: 800m
Club: Crichton Cobbers Club, Technical Athletic Club
Mike Ryan
Born: 26 December 1941
Discipline: Marathon
Club: Waikato
Millie Sampson
Born: 1933
Discipline: Marathon, Cross Country, Road Racing
Club: Manurewa AC