JULIAN STILL TOP-CLASS

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 15

JULIAN STILL TOP-CLASS

The evergreen athlete, J. L. Julian (Auckland), showed that he has improved with age and will be a threat to the top marathon runners in New Zealand, by winning the national 10-mile road race title at Hamilton last week-end. Julian’s time, 47min 55sec, was the fastest recorded over the distance in New Zealand, on the track or the road. It beat by 22sec the previous best time on the road, set by W. D. Baillie. He now becomes a major contender with D. C. McKenzie (Greymouth) and M. Ryan (Waikato) for the national marathon title next year. Canterbury’s major success was in the unofficial junior five-mile event, in which C. McLennan (Ashburton) took second place.

Other runners in the senior event found the humidity very trying and the best Canterbury placing was B. Welsh (Ashburton), nineteenth. 1. D. Greig, the other Canterbury runner, was twenty-ninth. Attack On World Time (N.Z.P.. 4. -Reuter—Copyright h LONDON.

The British record holder, R. Hill, will lead an attack on the world one-hour running record at Walton, Surrey, on Saturday. Others taking part include the European marathon champion, J. Hogan, the Commonwealth marathon champion, J. Alder. The present world record of 12 miles 1478 yards was set by G. Roelants (Belgium)