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Round the Bays fun run, Auckland, 1980s

Round the Bays fun run, Auckland, 1980s

In the 1970s and 1980s New Zealanders enthusiastically participated in an international running boom. The annual Round the Bays fun run in Auckland, which began in 1973, became one of the largest in the world. Here the participants are running along Tāmaki Drive – the field stretches back all the way around the point in the distance.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

Reference: 1021-78

by Eric W. Young

Permission of Auckland City Libraries Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Colquhoun, Athletics – The golden era continues, 1970 to 1990, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39964/round-the-bays-fun-run-auckland-1980s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Colquhoun, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012, updated 20 September 2016.

Comments

Jon griffiths
19 November 2017
I participated in the 1st 2nd and 3rd round the bays great to see its become so popular but Shake too was great with jus a few hundred participants