Mens 800m and 1500m Tokyo 1964 highlights (Peter Snell Documentary) | Tokyo
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Steve Ovett would have challenged him over 1500m. Seb Coe would have challenged him over 1500m and 800m. Peter Snell was better than Ovett over 800m.
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In 1975, I lived in Anderson Place apartments in Davis, California. Anderson Place, at the time the only low-income housing in the city, had a lot of international residents who were mostly students from all of the world who were attending either the medical school or the agricultural school at the University of Davis. I was 13 years old at the time, an 8th-grade student at Emerson Junior High and managed to stay employed part-time by babysitting. One day this new couple moved in downstairs. They had two young girls, Jackie and Mandy, who were about 6 and 8 at the time. I realized this was a great new source of babysitting income and got to know the parents, Sally and Peter.
I noticed that Peter had the most amazingly well developed calf muscles I had ever seen. He eventually told me had been a runner in the olympics and showed me one of his gold medals. I was impressed but even more so by his friendly, humble, approachable personality. I babysat for Mandy and Jackie often and one of them (I can't remember which) conned me into taking my first drink by offering me orange juice that I didn't know was spiked with whiskey. They thought that was just the funniest trick to play on the babysitter! Peter did me the honor of coming with me to my social studies class one day as a guest speaker. We rode our bikes together to Emerson and I got to show off my prestigious new neighbor and got extra credit in the class! I feel honored to have known the great Peter Snell. -
An easy win and a gold medal for Snell, but also a fine effort by John Davies to
snatch a bronze medal. Davies made a huge contribution also as a coach and commentator. -
Peter Snell- unquestionably New Zealand's greatest athlete. He had a devastating
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peter.josef and my dad john were all great athletes who ran to their strenghths on the day,,what a race,they re created it in wanganui and western springs i think..these guys trained super hard..under the watchfull eye of arthur lydiard..the man.total respect.
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Snell ...totally cool...did it with training but still had a humble nature to him...very appealing...must say he was my role model....how lucky for Jim Ryun too!
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that photo at the finish line of the 1960 Olympic 800 final. Snell is giving his all, the Belgium runner looks over in despair! Only the Wade Bell poster of his 800 finish shows more "guts and glory". Peter Snell trained in secret and then came out of no where to win this final. Pure Drama!
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Too good.
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New Zealand's greatest athlete. John Walker, and Ian Ferguson, came close though.
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strong
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Fantastic Athlete.
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he's my dad's uncle
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Cheers kiwiauldphart for your upload :), as you know New Zealand has Great middle distance pedigree, thanks to the the late great Arthur Lydiard, The finest distance coach of all time, who's training methods are still used with great refinement today by many runners and Academies from around the World.
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As every runner knows your only as good as your last race, so times don't matter as much as the manner in which you pass the finish line. You have to remember that in 1964 Tokyo Olympics Peter Snell had to measure his energy levels as he had the 800m and !500m finals to run and win.To down play these efforts by saying Herb Elliot would have beaten him is just grasping at straws. woulder,coulder,shoulder don't wash with me.In a nut shell "You must compete in order to be a champion"case closed!
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Peter Snell's dominance in these races was the pinnacle of a glittering career. The most feared runner in the world in the early to mid 60s at his peak. The way Snell simply blew the field away in the 1500 has never been equalled. As John Davies says. The 800 doesn't look as dramatic but is just as impressive. To drop back out of the pack, swing out wide, and then take the whole field in the last 300 of an Olympic 800 was and is simply preposterous.
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One of the greatest athletes ever! His world 800m record (On grass) would have put him in the top 3-4 places of the world champs from 1990s-2000s, Which shows what an amazing run it was.
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A great shame that john davies was never able to step up to 5000 meters through injury.
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absolutly great