Skating Honour For F. H. Britt
The New Zealand Roller Skating Association’s highest honour for speed skaters, the Gold Medal and bar, was awarded for the first time in the association’s 31-year history, to F. H. Britt, of the Canterbury Amateur Roller Skating Club, on Saturday.
For the award, which was presented by the club’s chairman (Mr M. Clarke), Britt had to skate three distances —quarter, one and two miles —within prescribed minimum times.
Within an hour at the national championships at Auckland in January, Britt recorded 50sec for the quarter-mile, 3min lOsec for one mile, and 6min 49sec for two miles. Passing this test was a
s climax to his succes- as the r- over-all senior men’s national tt speed skating champion for is 1967, and representing New is Zealand in the South Pacific n roller skating championships.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31347, 18 April 1967, Page 19
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