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Detailed explanation-1: -Exactly a week later, on 3 February, Snell followed up with an even more stunning exploit: an 800m world record of 1:44.3 on the Lancaster Park grass track in Christchurch. It stood as a world record for 11 years and as the Oceania record for 56 years. It remains the New Zealand record, ahead of John Walker’s 1:44.92.

Detailed explanation-2: -Early in 1962 Peter broke three world records in the space of eight days. The most famous of these was at Cooks Garden in Wanganui, where he achieved the first sub-four-minute mile to be run on New Zealand soil on the 27th of January. It was also a world record (3 minutes, 54.4 seconds).

Detailed explanation-3: -His wife, Miki, confirmed the death to The New Zealand Herald. She said he had had a longstanding heart ailment. Snell was a virtual unknown on the international track scene when he surged in the stretch of the 800-meter race at the 1960 Rome Olympics to overtake Roger Moens of Belgium, who held the world record.