15 May 2025

NZ Sporting History

From Afternoons, 2:30 pm on 15 May 2025

For today's sporting history we're going back to the 1981, where a New Zealander took the running world by storm. 24-year-old Allison Roe... a long-distance runner from the Auckland's north shore, won both the prestigious Boston & New York marathons in the same year. She broke both course records and smashed the world record in New York. Only to have it controversially stripped weeks later. Allison became a global star overnight and became the first female to win the Halberg New Zealand Sportsperson of the Year award. Allison spoke to Jesse.

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