Maurice Marshall

Maurice Marshall
Medal record
Men's Athletics
Competitor for  New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
1950 Auckland 1 mile

Maurice "Moss" Lane Marshall MBE (12 January 1927 – 16 May 2013) was a New Zealand middle-distance athlete.

Biography

Marshall was born in Thames, New Zealand, in 1927.

At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won a bronze medal in the mile run and then participated in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics in both the 1500 m and the 800 m.[1][2] After retiring from athletics Marshall returned to school teaching and went on to become headmaster of Southwell School in Hamilton, New Zealand for 16 years.[3] He and his Waikato-born Olympic team mate John Holland were honoured by having parallel streets named after them in Hamilton.

In the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, Marshall was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to education and sport.[4]

He died at his home in Hamilton in 2013.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Maurice Marshall Bio, Stats, and Results, at Sports-Reference.com.
  2. ↑ Maurice Marshall, at olympic.org.nz.
  3. ↑ Southwell history.
  4. ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 51774, 16 June 1989. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Maurice Lane Marshall Obituary". New Zealand Herald. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
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