‘Peter Snell was to running what Sir Edmund Hillary was to mountaineering’: Famed New Zealand Olympic middle-distance runner Peter Snell has died at age 80
- Famed New Zealand Olympic middle distance runner Peter Snell has died in Dallas at age 80, the New Zealand Herald reported on Saturday.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern remembered Snell as “a legend, here and around the world. Our thoughts are with Sir Peter’s wife Miki and their family.” “He felt good, he had gone and done some activities, and was planning on doing more - he wanted to play table tennis,” Miki told the publication. “He lay down to watch the news on TV and fell asleep.
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