Allison Roe
MBE
Roe in 2017
Personal information
Birth nameAllison Pamela Deed
Born (1956-05-30) 30 May 1956 (age 67)
Auckland, New Zealand
SpouseAlan Barwick

Allison Pamela Roe MBE (née Deed; born 30 May 1956) is a New Zealand politician and former long-distance athlete.

Athletics career

Roe was born in Auckland in 1956. In 1981, she won both the Boston Marathon and New York City Marathon, becoming the second of only two women to accomplish the feat in the same year. In Boston, she ran 2:26:46 to improve the course record by almost eight minutes, set the previous year by Jacqueline Gareau.[1] In New York, she set a world best women's marathon time with 2:25:29, to break Grete Waitz's time of 2:25:42 from the 1980 New York Marathon. However, after re-measurement, the 1981 course was found to be 150 metres short, though Waitz's 1980 record is also disputed. Also in 1981, she set a 20 km world record in Miyazaki, Japan.

In the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours, Roe was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to athletics.[2]

Political career

In the 2013 Auckland elections, Roe was elected to the Waitematā District Health Board and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.[3] In the 2016 elections, Roe joined the Rodney First ticket and stood for re-election for the Health Board and election to the Rodney Local Board.[4] She was successful in both contests with the second most popular and most popular votes respectively.[5][6]

Achievements

Representing  New Zealand
Year Competition Venue Position Notes
1980 Tokyo Marathon Tokyo, Japan 4th 2:42:24
1981 Auckland Marathon Auckland, New Zealand 1st 2:36:16
1981 Boston Marathon Boston, United States 1st 2:26:46
1981 Peachtree Road Race 10 km Atlanta, Georgia 1st 32:38
1981 City2Surf 14 km Sydney, Australia 1st 47:36
1981 New York City Marathon New York, United States 1st 2:25:29 [7]
1982 Seoul Marathon Seoul, South Korea 1st 2:43:12
2017 World Masters Games (Mountain Biking) Auckland, New Zealand 1st 1:12:11

References

  1. ^ "Seko Clocks A Boston Record". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. AP. 21 April 1981. p. 19. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
  2. ^ "No. 53334". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 12 June 1993. p. 38.
  3. ^ "Rankin elected to Waitemata health board". 10 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Allison Roe and Auckland councillor join Rodney First ticket - Scoop News".
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ https://www.arrs.run/MaraRank/ATM_Mara1981.htm Course 150 m short on remeasurement

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Awards Preceded byRichard Hadlee New Zealand Sportsman of the Year 1981 Succeeded by1982 New Zealand men's eight


Fastest performance of the year in women's marathon
Boston Marathon – women's winners
New York City Marathon – women's winners
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