- Cecil Matthews
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Commonwealth Games Cecil Matthews (
13 October 1914 –8 November 1987 ) was aNew Zealand middle distance runner from Canterbury, who representedNew Zealand at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin andNew Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games at Sydney.At the
1936 Summer Olympics he was eliminated from the 5000 meters, finishing seventh in his heat, and was scratched from the 10,000 metres. He had tendon problems (likePat Boot , who also had a disappointing result at Berlin), from running on the decks of the Wanganella.At the
1938 British Empire Games he won two gold medals, in the three-mile race where he beat Peter Ward, and the six-mile event (although he had no experience at this distance, which did not appear on the New Zealand programme until 1948).He was born in Christchurch. He served in the Air Force in World War II, then moved to Auckland where he died.
External links
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/Gov12_12Rail-fig-Gov12_12Rail037a.html Photo of C. H. Matthews finishing three mile trial for Empire Games c1938]
References
*"New Zealand Sporting Legends: 27 Pre-War Sporting Heroes" by Neville McMillan, pages 98-101 (1993, Moa Beckett, Auckland) ISBN 1-96958-013-1
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