Peter Snell was born on 1938, 17 December in Opunake New Zealand. The school he went was Mt Albert Grammar School. He was famous for having three gold medals in the Olympics and being only one that finished the 800 and 1500 metre race from 1920 to 1964. He retired in athletics and worked at a tobacco company and then moved to the United States and went to studying again. He got a PHD in exercise physiology. Died at the age of 80 on 2019, 12 December.
