Pegasus Post: July 01, 2021
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Thursday <strong>July</strong> 1 <strong>2021</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
PEGASUS POST<br />
Timely reminder of Olympic track star<br />
The New Brighton<br />
Museum has a rich<br />
history spanning for<br />
more than 100 years.<br />
Peggy Butterfield<br />
writes monthly about<br />
the historical display at<br />
the heritage museum<br />
WITH THE Tokyo Olympics,<br />
just weeks away, we remember<br />
the 1964 Tokyo games in which<br />
South New Brighton star, Marise<br />
Chamberlain, competed.<br />
Chamberlain was a bronze<br />
medal winner in the women’s<br />
800m in a time of 2:02.8, and<br />
she finished third to the winner<br />
Great Britain’s Anne Parker.<br />
To this day she remains only<br />
one of two New Zealand female<br />
track medallists; the other is<br />
Lorraine Moller who ran third<br />
in the 1992 Barcelona Games<br />
marathon.<br />
Only three other female<br />
athletes have won Olympic<br />
medals in the field events –<br />
Yvette Williams (long jump),<br />
Dame Valerie Adams (shot put)<br />
and Eliza McCartney (pole<br />
vault).<br />
Chamberlain is now<br />
85-years-old and still lives in<br />
Pine Ave. Chamberlain is a<br />
regular attendee at our Golden<br />
Oldie Movie Club on Monday<br />
CHAMP: Marise<br />
Chamberlain, now 85 and<br />
living in South New Brighton,<br />
remains only one of two New<br />
Zealand female Olympic<br />
track medallists. <br />
afternoons at 1pm.<br />
Chamberlain was inducted<br />
into the New Zealand Sports<br />
Hall of Fame in 1995. She was<br />
among the fastest in the world<br />
over 400m and 800m – and for<br />
a time was the fastest over 400m<br />
and the second-fastest over<br />
800m – but this was when such<br />
races for women were rarely on<br />
international programmes.<br />
In the Tokyo afternoons,<br />
Chamberlain would complete<br />
her track workouts with the<br />
Lydiard squad – including the<br />
late Sir Peter Snell, who went on<br />
to win double gold on the track<br />
in the National Stadium.<br />
It was Snell who looked at<br />
Chamberlain’s training shoes<br />
and was shocked to see the backs<br />
cut out of them and well past<br />
their best.<br />
Chamberlain suffered<br />
from chronic bursitis in both<br />
ankles throughout her career<br />
and had altered her training<br />
shoes to relieve pressure on the<br />
bursae.<br />
Snell took Chamberlain to the<br />
shoemakers who were outfitting<br />
him and they immediately threw<br />
her old shoes in the bin.<br />
Today, Chamberlain still takes<br />
a daily walk on New Brighton<br />
Beach.<br />
SPEED: Chamberlain on<br />
her way to Tokyo bronze in<br />
1964.<br />
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