Jack Foster

Jack Foster

MedalTableTop MedalSport | Men's Athletics MedalCountry | NZL MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games MedalSilver| 1974 Christchurch|Marathon

John ("Jack") Charles Foster (born May 23, 1932 in Liverpool, England – died June 5, 2004) was a former long-distance runner. He represented New Zealand in the men's marathon at two Summer Olympics; Munich, West Germany (1972) and Montreal, Canada (1976). A resident of Rotorua, he won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch with a master's world record time of 2:11:19 at the age of 41.cite web | title=Athletics Canterbury: Foster, John C |url=http://www.athleticscanterbury.org.nz/display/su_newsletter.php?club=&newsletter=000010&record_id=000363| accessdate=2007-10-24] Two years earlier, he had set a world record for 20 miles at 1:39:14Citation | last=Robinson | first=Roger | title=Jack Foster: 1932-2004 | newspaper=Running Times Magazine | date=September 2004 | url=http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:wlD8kmD4lagJ:www.runningtimesmagazine.com/rt/articles/%3Fc%3D411%26id%3D4647] .

He was killed while out riding his bicycle in Rotorua.

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* [http://www.olympic.org.nz/Athletes/AthleteProfile.aspx?Print=&ContactID=1103&id=3774 New Zealand Olympic Committee]


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