Barry Magee

Arthur Barrington " Barry " Magee ( born February 6, 1934 in New Plymouth / Taranaki ) is a New Zealand athlete, who was successful in the early 1960s as a long distance and marathon runner. The 1.65 m wide and 53 -kg athlete competed for the Three Kings Athletic Club in Auckland. He was coached by Arthur Lydiard.

Magee won several national championships (possible title wins prior to 1960 are not used):

At international level, he entered appearance.

In the Commonwealth Games 1958 in Cardiff, he started over 3 and 6 miles, in 1962 was defeated in Perth just over 6 miles, where he achieved his best result with fourth place in 28:41,0 min in third place by only two tenths.

At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 and in Tokyo in 1964, he went in the 10,000 meters at the start, but was not among the top 20 Far more successful he was against it on the marathon route, which he played in Rome in addition to the 10,000 m ( in Tokyo he was reported for the marathon, but had to cancel due to injury ). The race was dominated by the barefoot running Ethiopian Abebe Bikila ( gold in 2:15:16,2 h), with the only Moroccan Rhadi Ben Abdesselam ( silver in 2:15:41,6 h) kept pace, but Magee could the Soviet champion Konstantin Vorobyov remove almost two minutes and ran unchallenged as a third party in a 2:17:18,2 h.

Another major success was allowed Magee celebrate in December the same year when he won the famous Fukuoka Marathon in 2:19:04 h and at the same time setting a course record.

Finally, Magee was also in the list of world record holder a. On July 17, 1961 in Dublin was the New Zealand team ( Cast: Gary Philpott, Murray Halberg, Barry Magee as the third runner and Peter Snell ) about 4x1 miles in the new best time of 16:23,8 minutes victorious (it was ten months later pushed by a team from the United States on 16:08,9 min; today Best time: 15:49,08 min, erected in 1985 by Ireland).

As bests Barry Magee be specified:

Magee now lives in Auckland, where he runs a country school.