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Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win Olympic gold

Listen to a radio commentary of the gold medal runs by Peter Snell (800 m) and Murray Halberg (5000 m) at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Halberg's victory followed just half an hour after Snell's, completing New Zealand's finest day on the Olympic track.

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Hans Grodotzki (Germany, silver); Kazimierz Zimny (Poland, bronze)
Crissy Shiels
all i want to no is who got second ans third to Murry Halberg in the 1960 5000 olympic race.

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