RELATED TO CHARIOT RACE ON PIHA BEACH
Events
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23 October 2011
All Blacks win their second World Cup
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10 March 1995
Auckland Warriors debut
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15 June 1935
Lovelock wins ‘Mile of the century’
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7 July 1924
'Tom Watson' wins bronze for New Zealand
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16 May 1981
All Whites beat Australia on road to Spain
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4 February 1975
First woman to swim Cook Strait
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2 February 1974
'The greatest middle distance race of all time'
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20 June 1987
All Blacks win the first World Cup
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15 July 1933
Lovelock smashes world mile record
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12 July 2001
New Zealander wins Tour de France stage
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23 July 1952
Yvette Williams leaps for gold at Helsinki
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31 July 1976
John Walker wins gold in Montreal
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2 September 1960
Golden day for Kiwi runners in Rome
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21 October 1964
Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo
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6 August 1936
Lovelock wins 1500-m gold at Berlin
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13 March 1956
NZ's first test cricket victory
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28 March 1955
NZ cricketers skittled for 26
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16 April 1892
NZ Rugby Union founded
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21 April 1961
First Golden Shears competition
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10 May 1960
All-white All Blacks leave for South Africa
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22 May 1884
First NZ Rugby team in action
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1 February 1981
Trevor Chappell bowls underarm
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15 February 1978
New Zealand beats England in a cricket test for the first time
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25 November 1903
Fitzsimmons wins third world boxing title
Biographies
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Ted Morgan
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Arthur Lydiard
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John Reid
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Yvette Williams
Articles
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1987 Rugby World Cup
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1982 Football World Cup
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New Zealand cricket
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1981 Springbok tour
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Sport, 1940-1960
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Natives' Rugby Tour, 1888-89
Community contributions