Terry Manners

Terry Manners (actually Terence Gordon Manners; born October 19, 1939 in Levin ) is a former New Zealand marathon runner .

In 1969 he won the Queensland Championship and came third at the Australian Championship. The following year he won the championship in Victoria and, as the Australian runner-up, went under the 2:20 hour mark for the first time with 2:19:26 h.

In 1971 he was runner-up in the Winstone Marathon and improved from fifth in the Fukuoka Marathon to 2:16:24 h.

The following year he won the Hawke Bay Poverty Bay Marathon in 2:16:06 h and was New Zealand runner-up in 2:15:24 h. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he finished 34th in 2:25:30 h.

In 1973 he was New Zealand champion in 2:18:29 h. The New Zealand Championship for 1974 was brought forward to December 1, 1973; Manners qualified third in 2:17:08 h for the British Commonwealth Games in 1974 in Christchurch, where he finished fourth on January 31 with his personal best of 2:12:59 h. At the end of the year he was fourth in Fukuoka in 2:13:12 h.

In 1977 he was New Zealand champion for the second time, and in 1978 he was nominated for a second place in the national championship for the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton , in which he finished 13th.

In 1981 he finished seventh in the Frankfurt Marathon .

Web links

• Athlete portrait at the ARRS
• Terry Manners in the trackfield.brinkster.net database (English)
• Terry Manners in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )