Stan Lay
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Birth name | Stanley Arthur Lay | ||||||||||||||
Born | New Plymouth, New Zealand[1] | 27 July 1906||||||||||||||
Died | 12 May 2003 New Plymouth, New Zealand | (aged 96)||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||
Club | Wanganui Taranaki | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best | 67.89 m (1928)[1][3] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stanley Arthur Lay
Lay's best throw of 67.89 m was achieved in London on 7 July 1928 prior to the 1928 Olympics.[3] Officials thought he had broken the world record, but they had overlooked Eino Penttilä's record throw of 69.88 the previous year. Lay's throw remained the Commonwealth record for 26 years.[4]
Lay was a signwriter at Stratford, and could not afford the time off to go to the 1934 British Empire Games in London. At the 1950 Empire Games Lay took the oath on behalf of all competitors.[4]
In the
References
- ^ a b Stan Lay. sports-reference.com
- ^ "Empire Games: N.Z. representatives". The Evening Post. 28 June 1930. p. 13. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ a b Stanley Lay. trackfield.brinkster.net
- ^ ISBN 1-86956-044-2
- ^ "No. 51173". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1987. p. 34.
- ^ Obituary: Stanley Arthur Lay. New Zealand Herald (16 May 2003).
- ^ Stan Lay (1906–2003). New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.
Further reading
- Media related to Stan Lay at Wikimedia Commons
- McMillan, Neville (1993). New Zealand Sporting Legends: 27 Pre-War Sporting Heroes. Auckland: Moa Beckett. pp. 74–78. ISBN 1-869580-14-1.
- Photo of Stan Lay, 1930s
- Stan Lay Flies Higher, portrait by Virginia Winder, website of Puke Ariki, 13 August 2004