VETERAN HIGH JUMPER.—A former Olympic and British Empire Games representative for Britain, England, and New Zealand, 34-year-old P. Wells winning his eighth Canterbury high jump title at the first day of the main section of the Canterbury athletie championships at Rugby Park last Saturday. This was Wells’s ninth provincial title, as on one occasion he won also the hop, step, and jump championship. Although the height of 6ft Zin was well short of his national record of 6ft 7½in, his jump on Saturday marks him as a likely winner again of the national title at Napier at the end of this month.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30366, 15 February 1964, Page 9
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102VETERAN HIGH JUMPER.—A former Olympic and British Empire Games representative for Britain, England, and New Zealand, 34-year-old P. Wells winning his eighth Canterbury high jump title at the first day of the main section of the Canterbury athletie championships at Rugby Park last Saturday. This was Wells’s ninth provincial title, as on one occasion he won also the hop, step, and jump championship. Although the height of 6ft Zin was well short of his national record of 6ft 7½in, his jump on Saturday marks him as a likely winner again of the national title at Napier at the end of this month. Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30366, 15 February 1964, Page 9
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