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Profile - Peter Norman
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Peter Norman competed at two Commonwealth Games in the 1960s with little success. In the 1967/68 Australian season, he showed consistent improvement and a national record run of 20.5 earned him selection in the 1968 Olympic team. In the 1968 Games, at Mexico City, Norman became the first Australian male to set an Olympic Record in a sprint event. He smashed the Commonwealth and Australian 200m records with a time of 20.06 in the final, which won him a silver medal behind the talented US runner Tommie Smith. Peter Norman's Australian Record still stands - thirty-five years later. |
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