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New Zealand athletes prepare for the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. Among the athletes featured are Olympic gold medallists Yvette Williams and Murray Halberg.
Yvette Williams jumping at Carisbrook, Dunedin
The sports writer Peter Heidenstrom rated Yvette Williams as his 'New Zealand Athlete of the Century'. There is no doubt that she was one of our greatest-ever athletes - and probably the most versatile. 
Hear an extract from 1954 radio documentary, 'Sports Mirror', about the 1954 Commonwealth Games and Yvette Williams's three gold medals
Yvette Williams describes winning the longjump (then known as broad jump) at the 1952 Olympics, Helsinki.