Supremely strong middle-distance runner who was the last man to win 800m and 1500m gold medals at the same Olympics The New Zealander Peter Snell, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was a colossus in the world of athletics who won three Olympic gold medals in middle-distance running during the early 1960s. Having won the 800 metres at the Rome Olympics of 1960 as an almost unknown 21-year-old, Snell went on to set a world mile record of 3min 54.4sec (on grass) in 1962, and then a world 800m...
Supremely strong middle-distance runner who was the last man to win 800m and 1500m gold medals at the same Olympics The New Zealander Peter Snell, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was a colossus in the world of athletics who won three Olympic gold medals in middle-distance running during the early 1960s. Having won the 800 metres at the Rome Olympics of 1960 as an almost unknown 21-year-old, Snell went on to set a world mile record of 3min 54.4sec (on grass) in 1962, and then a world 800m...
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