BELGIAN RUNNER SETS WORLD RECORD
BRUSSELS. Sept. 29. The Belgian runner, Reiff, who won the Olympic 10,000 metres, beat the * world’s record for 2000 metres by clocking smin. 7sec. at an athletic meeting tonight. The Swede, Gundar Haegg. held the f previous record of smin. ll.Ssec. which* he set in 1942.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 6
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51BELGIAN RUNNER SETS WORLD RECORD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 6
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