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Maddaford in U.S.
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON. R. M. Maddaford, the New Zealand distance runner now studying in America, will concentrate on running miles in the coming United States track season. His best time for the distance is 4min I.2sec, but he has run the mile in under 4min 2sec on four occasions and would like to crack the four-minutq. barrier. “I have until the summer of 1972 in which to try to win a place in the Olympic Games team,” Maddaford said at the world cross-country championships in San Sebastian, Spain, last week-end.
“I think this season I would do best to concentrate on the shorter distances, a mile and 1500 metres, to build up my speed, and to go back to longer distances at a later stage,” he said. Maddaford, who has spent the last 15 months at the University of Eastern New Mexico, studying speech and biology, said that he would probably stay in America for some years, but that he would like to compete for New Zealand again, and return to New Zealand eventually. Maddaford joined the New Zealand team for the crosscountry championships when it passed through Madrid, and flew back to America yesterday.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32563, 24 March 1971, Page 36
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