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(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON.
The New Zealand long distance walker and Melbourne Olympic gold medallist, N. R. Read, on Saturday won the British 20-mile road-walking championship. Read is making a lastminute attempt to get into the Nfew Zealand team for the Jamaican Empire Games.
Read walked the 20 miles in 2hr 39min 6sec. He finished Imin 2sec ahead of P. McCullough, of Britain, in the race at Hinckley, Leicestershire. Read, a sales representative for a tobacco firm, is having a “walking holiday” in England. Although he finished well ahead of McCullough, he said that he had to make a great effort to win.
From the third position at the end of the fifth mile he went to second at the eighth, dropped back to eighth after 81 miles and got back to the second position at the end of the seventeenth mile.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 3
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