Alan Geddes
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| File:Alan Geddes 1937 (cropped).jpg Geddes, c. 1937 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Raymond Geddes |
| Born | 7 August 1912 New Zealand |
| Died | 27 January 1993 (aged 80) Dunedin, New Zealand |
Spouse |
Flora Margaret Dorward Pyott
(m. 1939) |
| Sport | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Achievements and titles | |
| National finals | 1 mile champion (1945) |
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Alan Raymond Geddes (7 August 1912 – 27 January 1993) was a New Zealand athlete. He represented his country at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, finishing seventh in the 3-mile race and fourth in the 6-mile event.[1] He placed second in the New Zealand cross-country championship on four occasions,[2] but never won the event. In 1945 he won the 1-mile title at the New Zealand athletics championships, in a time of 4:30.2.[3]
On 26 October 1939, Geddes married Flora Margaret Dorward Pyott at First Church, Dunedin.[4] He died at Dunedin Hospital in 1993.[5]
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Categories:
- 1912 births
- 1993 deaths
- New Zealand men middle-distance runners
- New Zealand men long-distance runners
- Commonwealth Games athletes for New Zealand
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games
- New Zealand men cross country runners
- New Zealand Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
- New Zealand athletics biography stubs