Chch runner in form
Peter McLauchlan (Olympic) who won the recent Gebbies 27 km classic on the Cashmere Hills, showed the benefit of this race when he recorded his personal best time to come third m tbe big annua] Winstone Southland marathon at Invercargill. His time was 2hr 33min 16sec. Brendan Pauley (Otago Univeisity) ran his first marathon to win in 2hr 29min 43sec, and Malcolm Thomas (Invercargill) last year s winner, improved his time to 2h r 29m in 45sec to come second. Other Canterbury piacings were:— B Healey (Olympic), 2:41:19. 6; A. Blackburn (Olympic), 3:3:12. 26: J. Whelan (United). 3:36:15. 51; R Lange (United) 3:49:12, 56: R. Merlo (United), 3:49:26. 58 The Winstone marathon, from Riverton to Invercargill, is New Zealand’s oldest established marathon. It attracted a record entry of 96 starters this year. The race produced the best
liover-ai) standard of performing 71 since it was first established ;,| The first 21 finishers al) cam eihonte in under three hours. I The oldest runner. Dale Fit eicham. aged 68 -Leith. Dunedin II completed the race in just old s four hours.
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