WANTS N.Z. RACE
Chance To Get Record Back (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE. The Australian runner. Miss Pam Kilborn, wants her world 80 metres hurdles record beck. She hopes for a New Zealand invitation to help her. It took Miss Kilborn. 26. i seven years' hard work to equal the record of 10.5 sec in 1964. Then in February she clocked 10.4 sec to claim the record outright. Last Sunday, however. Miss Irina Press, of Russia, recorded 10.3 sec. She and four Russian male athletes will tour New Zealand early next year. If the Russians cannot go to Melbourne, Miss Kilborn wants to go to New Zealand and run against Miss Press. “If New Zealand were to invite me. I would cateh the first available plane,” she said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30895, 30 October 1965, Page 7
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