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Sir John Walker appointed Athletics New Zealand Patron Friday, 11 December 2020
Olympic 1500 metres gold medallist Sir John Walker has been named as the Patron of Athletics New Zealand.
The Montreal 1976 champion was announced in the new role at the 133rd Athletics New Zealand Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Auckland.
He is the second successive Olympic 1500m gold medallist and mile world record holder to assume the position, which has been vacant since the death of Sir Peter Snell last December. It’s a great honour to be named Patron of Athletics NZ and to follow in the esteemed footsteps of a legend like Sir Peter Snell, who was a huge inspiration to me, Sir John said.