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	Murray Halberg
		Murray Halberg made a name for himself in the late 1950s as world-class miler, but he didn't really achieve everlasting fame until he started to concentrate his efforts on the 3miles/5000m distance.
		At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Halberg placed fifth in the 10000m, and then in the 5000m final, he repeated his Cardiff tactics, breaking away from the pack in the tenth lap, and hanging on to win in 13min 43.4sec.
		A few days before his two-mile record, Halberg had been a member of the New Zealand team that set a new 4 x 1 mile relay World Record of 16min 23.8sec in Dublin.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=2711 (309 words)

	Murray Halberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rugby player in his youth, Halberg suffered a severe injury during a game, leaving his left arm crippled.
		In 1956, when the Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia, he placed 11th in the 1500 metres.
		In 1963, Murray Halberg set up The Halberg Trust, which supports children with disabilities, and he took over the management of the New Zealand Sportsman of the Year Award, which was later renamed the Halberg award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murray_Halberg (336 words)

	Wanganui District Council: Media Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		New Zealand sporting legend Sir Murray Halberg has confirmed his attendance at the inaugural Mayoral Mile event at Cooks Gardens in Wanganui this Saturday.
		Sir Murray will lead the Disability Mile race at 7.50pm and then assist Mayor Michael Laws in presenting the medals for the elite men's and women's races later in the evening.
		But it has been Sir Murray's selfless dedication to the welfare of children with disabilities in New Zealand, manifested through the Halberg Trust, that has won him his greater fame and his higher accolades, including a knighthood in 1987.
	www.wanganui.govt.nz /News/showNews.asp?id=452 (220 words)

	HALBERG, Murray Gordon, M.B.E. - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Murray Gordon Halberg was born at Eketahuna on 7 July 1933 and educated at Avondale College, Auckland.
		Halberg won the New Zealand 3-mile championship in 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1962.
		In the 5,000 metres event Halberg established New Zealand records in 1957, 1959, 1960, and 1962 (13 min 38·4 sec).
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/H/HalbergMurrayGordonMbe/HalbergMurrayGordonMbe/en (934 words)

	Puke Ariki - Taranaki Stories - Rank Outsider Takes On World
		After the New Zealand team arrived in Italy, Snell and long-distance runner Murray Halberg did a time trial over three-quarters of a mile.
		"I beat Murray by about ten yards on this and the story at home was 'Halberg in great time trial, he's ready'," Snell says.
		While waiting for his medal presentation, Snell stood on the side of the track and watched with trepidation, then elation, as the famous Kiwi won the 5000-metre final, scoring a double for New Zealand.
	www.pukeariki.com /en/stories/sport/snellrome.asp?pageType=print (1245 words)

	Wanganui District Council: Media Releases
		Those were obviously the qualities that the Halberg trustees were looking for.
		The Halberg Trust was established by Olympic gold medallist Sir Murray Halberg in 1963, and is committed to ensuring that people with a disability can participate in inclusive sport and active recreation within their community.
		Sir Peter Snell was named the Halberg Trust's 'Athlete of the Century' at a gala occasion in the year 2000.
	www.wanganui.govt.nz /news/showNews.asp?id=335 (529 words)

	Puke Ariki - Taranaki Stories - Peter Snell's One-track Mind
		Before the 800-metre final at the Rome Olympics, Peter was sitting with long-distance star Murray Halberg and discus thrower and shotputter Val Sloper (now Young).
		When Val asked Murray how he was feeling before his 5000-metre final, he admitted having butterflies in his stomach.
		Peter resented his running pal, Murray Halberg, for taking Arthur's side, but the athletes are still friends - as are coach and former pupil.
	www.pukeariki.com /en/stories/sport/snell.asp (2135 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Arthur Lydiard of New Zealand who coached Olympic champions Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, and held national coaching positions in Finland, Denmark, Venezuela and Mexico, so inspiring a generation of the world’s finest middle and long distance runners was honoured last weekend by Athletics New Zealand.
		Lydiard was spirited into the QBE offices by his wife Joeline, long after the group had gathered, to be greeted by the many athletes and coaches along with daughter Fay and sons Bruce and Gary.
		Most notably Lydiard coached Peter Snell, the multiple World record breaker to three Olympic crowns, the 800m in 1960 and the 800m/1500m double in 1964, and Murray Halberg to the 1960 Olympic 5000m gold medal.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=23509.html (616 words)

	TIME.com: Modest Miler -- May 3, 1954 -- Page 1
		Halberg had a hard time getting back on his feet.
		Halberg, a natural lefthander, had to learn to do everything all over again with his right.
		I can run as fast as anybody else, and I feel that both my physical and mental conditioning are perfect." Halberg was modestly and remarkably uninterested in the four-minute mile: "I don't care one way or the other.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,890905,00.html (736 words)

	Arthur Lydiard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Arthur Lydiard was the most successful and influential running coach of the last fifty years.
		He burst into prominence at the Rome Olympics in 1960 when his two protégés, Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, won Olympic gold medals on the same day.
		He has also written biographies of Olympic gold medallists Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, paraplegic world champion Eve Rimmer and ultra-marathon Sandra Barwick.
	www.exisle.co.nz /nz/ArthurLydiard.htm (297 words)

	::SportManawatu:: Sport Opportunity :: A regional sports trust ensuring active participation for all
		Funding: Promoting the Halberg Trust Activity Fund which awards grants to young people with a disability to ensure any extra costs that may be associated with having a disability (compared with able-bodied participants) is not a barrier to taking part in mainstream sport or active leisure.
		The Halberg Trust Activity Fund provides grants to enable young people (up to the age of 20) with a disability to participate in inclusive sport and active leisure within their community.
		Halberg, the Halberg Trust continues to uphold the twin aims of its founder:
	www.sportmanawatu.org.nz /default.asp?menu=ce (388 words)

	Sport Taranaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Halberg trust was established over 40 years ago by Olympic champion, Sir Murray Halberg.
		This is achieved by the Halberg Trust Sport Opportunity Programme delivered by the Regional Sports Trust all over New Zealand.
		The major objective of the Halberg trust Sport Opportunity Programme is to provide children and people with the skills and confidence for inclusion into sport and active leisure with their peers.
	www.digitalus.co.nz /sporttaranaki/index.php?page=pwd_halberg_trust.php (230 words)

	A LECTURE by ARTHUR LYDIARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After his runners’ success in 1960 at Rome Olympics where Peter Snell and Murray Halberg won a gold medal with Barry Magee’s bronze medal, all the eyes in the running world were on this tiny shoe-maker from Auckland, New Zealand, who coached all these three young men.
		Now all athletes are different in their reactions, so you’d have to be a little experimental in the later stages of training to determine exactly how to co-ordinate the training.
		In this six-week period, we’d better realize that it’s purely for development of co-ordination and races we run at this period are purely to develop the athlete for the big races coming, for the main event.
	www.pinebeltpacers.org /Lydiard/Lydiard.html (7258 words)

	California Track and Running News -- Regional News Article
		New Zealand athletics coach Arthur Lydiard, who guided Peter Snell and Murray Halberg to Olympic gold medals, died in the United States on Saturday aged 87, family members confirmed today, Monday.
		Athletics: Arthur Lydiard, the New Zealander who coached Peter Snell and Murray Halberg to Olympic athletics gold medals in 1960, died on Saturday while on a...
		The New Zealand-born Lydiard coached Olympic champions Peter Snell and Sir Murray Halberg in the 1960s and inspired a generation of top New Zealand runners.
	www.caltrack.com /news/conning121304.html (3100 words)

	RUNNING STATS.COM
		That’s why (Murray) Halberg was able to run that 5000 meters in Rome.
		The reason was we coordinated the training years ago...” After Lydiard mentored such greats as Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, there was the era of the double Big Three in Kiwiland: John Walker, Dick Quax and Rod Dixon; Allison Roe, Lorraine Moller and Anne Audain.
		If the New Zealand magician was able to perform his art on many, including heart patients, a man with a game arm (Halberg) and a man with huge calves (Snell), he has also left behind a legacy of training and racing advice without equal.
	www.runningstats.com /Pages/889/Players.html (1738 words)

	Master Track & Field News - Daily Newsletter from Ross Dunton, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In front of about 800 mourners filling the Auckland Town Hall, Tayler, Murray Halberg and Barry Magee all paid final homage to the coach who led them to glory.
		Magee spoke of Lydiard’s other athletes, including Peter Snell and Sir Murray Halberg, who won Olympic gold medals in 1960, as well as 1974 Commonwealth Games gold medal winner Tayler.
		Halberg told of a man who welcomed his runners into his family, of fishing in a new boat and Lydiard "mumbling and grumbling" about having to row, of Lydiard catching a quail claiming he planned to "pluck it, cook it and eat it", but also stopping a run to admire a native pigeon.
	www.friidrott.se /veteran/dokument/dunton/2004/dec22.html (1114 words)

	songs of experience » What’s your favorite running book? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In one batch, he lent me Arthur Lydiard’s Running to the Top, an autobiography of Australian miler, Herb Elliott (don’t recall the title), and a little gem called,A Clean Pair of Heelswhich was the story of the New Zealand distance runner, Murray Halberg.
		The Halberg book has the spine-label and plastic wrapping which show it spent part of its life in a school library!
		the halberg and snell references caught my eye just because not many runners out there know who they are or what they have done for the sport of running.
	www.runningland.com /2005/07/19/whats-your-favorite-running-book (690 words)

	A-Z Summer Gold Medallists - Encyclopedia FunTrivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		H: The winner of the 5,000m in Rome in 1960, what New Zealander was later knighted for his work with a charitable trust he founded to help disabled children?
		Murray Halberg was the first New Zealander to break the 'four minute mile' barrier in 1958.
		At the 1960 Olympics, New Zealand won two gold medals on the track on the same afternoon, Peter Snell in the 800m, and Halberg in the 5,000m.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/A-Z-Summer-Gold-Medallists-140236.html (1392 words)

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