H.B.-P.B. Athletic Championships

Three records were broken at the annual Hawkea Bay-Poverty Bay centre amateur athletics championships, which this year were held in warm, windy conditions at the Childers Road Reserve.

Gisborne competitors accounted well for themselves in all fields and for the ninth time in ten years claimed the Tom Psarkinaon Shield for senior men's competition.

An event which attracted much interest was the 50,000 metres (just over 31 miles) road walk, in which two 19-year-old Taradale Club members took first and second placings.

Simon Dods (Gisborne) clears the bar easily to win the pole vault

Sprint champion Roger Tippen (Gisborne) breasts the tape to win the 100 yard race.

Record-breaker Glenye Morley (Hastings) leading Sue Haden and Isobel Johnstone home in the 100 yards

Top Gisborne milers Alan Saunders and Alan Parkinson loading the field at the half-way mark of the race

Local hero of the day, Harvey Twigley, competing in the long jump, in which he was placed second

Neck-and-neck over the final hurdle of the women's 80 metres race are Maureen Cummings, Sue Haydon, and Isobel Johnstone.

R. Wilton (Taradale), the winner of the 3000 metres steeplechase, clears a hurdle in fine style

Mr Dick Bird (Napier), senior vice-president of the H.B.-P.B. centre, congratulating Glenys Morley on her record-breaking win in the 440 yards race. Others on the dais are M. Riggs (3rd), of Napier, and Kath Thomas (2nd), of Giaborne.