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Peter Snell
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New Zealand athlete (1938–2019)
OverviewAI-generated
Peter Snell (1938–2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner and athletics competitor. Born in Ōpunake, he competed in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events. Snell participated in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. He received the Member of the Order of the British Empire and the Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Snell was educated at Washington State University and the University of California, Davis, where he earned a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy. He resided in Texas and died in Dallas.
In addition to athletics, Snell was an author with works including *Turbulent Skye*, *Use it or lose it*, *Wyoming Skye*, and *Fundamentals of Franchising--Canada*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Turbulent Skye
- Use it or lose it
- Wyoming Skye
- Fundamentals of Franchising--Canada
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1936-05-12
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 35
- Total plays
- 134
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Peter+Snell">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 87,481x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,828x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,630x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Peter George Snell , ( 1938-12-17 ) 17 December 1938 , Ōpunake , New Zealand
- Died
- 12 December 2019 (2019-12-12) (aged 80), Dallas , Texas , United States
- Height
- 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Weight
- 80 kg (176.4 lb; 12.6 st)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 800 m, 1500 m
- Coached by
- Arthur Lydiard
- Personal best s
- 800 metres : 1:44.3 ( WR ) , 880 yards: 1:45.1 WR, 1000 metres: 2:16.6 WR , 1500 metres : 3:37.6 , Mile : 3:54.4 WR , Mile 3:54.1 WR, 4 × 1 mile relay: 16.23.8 WR (with Murray Halberg , Gary Philpott & Barry Magee )
via Wikipedia infobox
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Sir Peter George Snell KNZM OBE (17 December 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only man since 1920 to have won the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics, in 1964.
Snell had a relatively short career as a world-famous international sportsman, 1960–1965, yet achieved so much that he was voted New Zealand's "Sports Champion of the (20th) Century" and was one of 24 inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame named in 2012. A protégé of the New Zealand athletics coach Arthur Lydiard, Snell is known for the three Olympic and two Commonwealth Games gold medals he won, and the several world records he set.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peter Snell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.