Peter Snell
Olympic athlete
1938 –
Who is Peter Snell?
Sir Peter George Snell, KNZM, OBE is a former New Zealand middle-distance runner, now resident in Texas, United States. He had one of the shortest careers of world famous international sportsmen, yet achieved so much that he was voted New Zealand’s "Sports Champion of the Century" and was one of 24 inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall Of Fame named in 2012. A protégé of the great New Zealand athletics coach Arthur Lydiard, Snell is known for the three Olympic and two Commonwealth Games gold medals he won, and the several world records he set.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1938
Opunake - Also known as
- Peter SNELL
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Education
- University of California, Davis
- Mount Albert Grammar School
- Washington State University
- Lived in
- Opunake
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on July 23, 2013
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