Robin Tait memorial fund
PA Auckland The Auckland Athletic Centre is to establish a memorial fund in the name of the late Robin Tait.
Tait, one of the great figures in New Zealand athletics over the last two decades, died in Auckland three weeks ago, 10 days after competing in the New Zealand championships.
The winner of 16 national discus titles and a 1974 commonwealth Games gold medallist, Tait represented
New Zealand at six Commonwealth Games and two Olympics, starting in Perth in 1962 and ending when he carried the flag at the head of the New Zealand team in Brisbane 18 months ago.
The Auckland centre decided this week to establish a Robin Tait Memorial Fund, the interest from which would be used for training grants for New Zealand’ most promising young discus throwers. It is also intended to buy
a trophy, to be known as the Robin Tait Memorial Trophy, which would be presented to the winner of the New Zealand men’s discus championship each year.
“I’m sure Robin would have liked the idea of the award of the training grants to this country’s most promising young discus throwers,’ said the Auckland centre’s president, John Cornaga, yesterday. “It would have been very much in line with his thinking.”
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