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Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win Olympic gold
Listen to a radio commentary of the gold medal runs by Peter Snell (800 m) and Murray Halberg (5000 m) at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Halberg's victory followed just half an hour after Snell's, completing New Zealand's finest day on the Olympic track.
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Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero.
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the recording, contact Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero. Reference T4200.
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