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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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How to cite this page: 'Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win Olympic gold', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/sound/peter-snell-and-murray-halberg-win-olympic-gold, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 26-Mar-2009
I would like to have an e-mail correspondence with some newzeland spectator who visited rome duirng the 1960 O.G.
thank you
Hans Grodotzki (Germany, silver); Kazimierz Zimny (Poland, bronze)
all i want to no is who got second ans third to Murry Halberg in the 1960 5000 olympic race.
What do you know?
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