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(N.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright I ST. MAUR (France). The ace French runner, M. Jazy, earned thunderous applause as he ended his brilliant International athletics career by breaking the world 2000 metres record. Jazy broke the record with a time of 4min 56.25ec at a meeting held at St. Maur to celebrate his retirement The previous record wu set in September this year by H. Norpoth (Germany) in 4min 57.8 sec. Jazy, aged 30, set a world record for the distance four years ago—smin l.Csec—and held It for three years until it was broken in 1965 by J. Odlozil (Czechoslovakia) with smin 01.2 sec.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31190, 14 October 1966, Page 17
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