No. 1 IN 1966
The 31-year-old Commonwealth Games decathlon titleholder, R. A. Williams was last evening elected New Zealand’s “Sportsman of the Year.”
Williams answered the controversy that surrounded his omission from the 1964 Olympic Games team in the best possible way.
He continued to win national decathlon titles—he has won six in all—and in the Commonwealth Games in Jamacia became the first New Zealander to win an international decathlon championship.
Williams received 125 votes. Mrs V. I. Young (athletics) was second, with 113, followed by R. P. Welsh (athletics), 110 D. C. Oliver (weightlifting), 85, D. F. Gerrard (swimming), 40, and L. R. Mills (athletics). 33.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31196, 21 October 1966, Page 13
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