Story: Athletics

More links and websites

• Athletics New Zealand

  The national organisation for athletics in New Zealand.

• New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame

  This section of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame website lists the athletes who have been inducted.

More suggestions and sources

• Colquhoun, David. As if running on air: the journals of Jack Lovelock. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2008.

• Heidenstrom, Peter. Athletes of the century: 100 years of New Zealand track and field. Wellington: GP Publications, 1992.

• Palenski, Ron. Athletics New Zealand 1887–2012: celebrating 125 years. Wellington: Athletics New Zealand, 2012.

• Romanos, Joseph. Arthur’s boys: the golden era of New Zealand athletics. Auckland: Moa Beckett, 1994.

• ‘Spiked shoe’ and ‘Days of the “pro” athlete recalled’. NZ Sportsman (December 1946): 31–33.