Peter Snell won the 800m gold at the Rome Olympics. (NZ Herald Archive)
At the Rome Olympic Games, in the space of one golden hour, Peter Snell won the 800m final and Murray Halberg the 5000m. They are our New Zealanders of the Year for 1960.
"A fashionable air of detachment toward the Olympic Games among a section of New Zealanders has been
jolted," commented the Herald at the time.
"Two victories in an hour in major track events have suffused the country with a golden glow of pride."
The glow has lasted.
There have been many great Olympic moments for New Zealand through the years but in 2012, senior Herald sports writers David Leggat and Dylan Cleaver chose this as the greatest.
