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in Auckland where he was educated at Avondale College.
His athletics career began after he seriously injured himself playing rugby and the months of rehabilitation left him with a withered left arm. He was 17 and the disability made him a determined athlete and gave him a life-long interest in the needs of disabled children.
Halberg’s talent was nurtured by Arthur Lydiard, and he was the first great runner to emerge from the Lydiard stable. He came to national attention in 1954 when he won the New Zealand mile championship and later that year
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By 1958 he had become a great runner. That year he became the first New Zealander to break 4 minutes for the mile, won the gold medal for the 3-mile race at the Cardiff Comonwealth Games, and was named Sportsman of the Year. He set world records for the 2and 3-mile and mile relay, all in 1961 and won another Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1962. Halberg set a string of records and won many titles over distances from 8 -hundred to 10-thousand metres but his finest moment came when he won the 5000 metres at the
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1960 Olympic Games in Rome. It was a golden double for New Zealand runners - his Lydiard stablemate Peter Snell had shortly before won the 800-metres.
He went to the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo but finished down the field in the 10,000 metres. Halberg turned to coaching for a while but was pouring his energy into his work for the Crippled Children’s Society. He had set up his Halberg Trust in 1963 and relaunched the Sportsman of the Year annual dinner and awards so it became the focal point of his Trust’s fundraising campaign for the Society. The event became known as the Halberg Awards in 1992,
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