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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