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Peter Snell's historically important 1964 Tokyo Olympics New…
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Peter Snell's historically important 1964 Tokyo Olympics New Zealand representative running singlet, the black singlet with stitch applied racing number in black on white '466' below another black cotton stitched panel with embroidered 'New Zealand' and the trademark 'Silver Fern', the manufacturer's label overstitched with Peter Snell's name tag, 'Snell, P.G.', some signs of age, minor staining and deterioration evident. 77 x 36.5 cm . as displayed under glass within a presentation frame together with three photographic reproductions of Snell running at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, descriptive label and facsimile signature, also included, a signed copy of the book 'no bugles no drums', 'Peter Snell, Garth Gilmour', First Edition 1965. Sir Peter George Snell KNZM OBE (born 17 December 1938) is a world famous New Zealand former middle distance runner, noted as New Zealand's athlete of the century. By the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Snell was already a world record holder and gold medal winner at the Rome Olympics in 1960. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he was particularly dominant winning the gold and setting a new Olympic record in the 800 metres and also winning gold in the 1500 metres. The 800-1500 metres double has never been repeated at an Olympic event and was only achieved once after at the 2005 World championships by the Bahrain athlete, Rashid Ramzi, who was later stripped of his Olympic gold medal for doping. Snell was a protege of the New Zealand Athletics coach Arthur Lydiard. Snell is widely considered one of the greatest middle-distance runners of all time.
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