Allison Roe
{{short description|New Zealand long-distance runner}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name = Allison Roe
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=100%}}
|image = Allison Roe (cropped).jpg
|caption = Roe in 2017
|birth_name = Allison Pamela Deed
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1956|5|30|df=y}}
|birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
|spouse = Alan Barwick
}}
Allison Pamela Roe {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (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.{{cite news |title=Seko Clocks A Boston Record |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bM8nAAAAIBAJ&sjid=120DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2802%2C4107090 |agency=AP |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |date=21 April 1981 |page=19|accessdate=13 January 2011 }} 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.{{London Gazette |issue=53334 |date=12 June 1993 |page=38 |supp=3}} In 2010, she was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=https://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/New-Zealand-Sports-Hall-of-Fame-Inductees/R/Allison-Roe |title=Allison Roe |website=New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame |access-date=15 January 2025}}
Political career
In the 2013 Auckland elections, Roe was elected to the Waitematā District Health Board and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.{{cite web|url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/local-elections-2010/59135/rankin-elected-to-waitemata-health-board|title=Rankin elected to Waitemata health board|date=10 October 2010}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1607/S00517/allison-roe-and-auckland-councillor-join-rodney-first-ticket.htm|title=Allison Roe and Auckland councillor join Rodney First ticket - Scoop News}} She was successful in both contests with the second most popular and most popular votes respectively.{{cite web|url=http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/HowCouncilWorks/Elections/Documents/Confirmedlocalelectionresults2016.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-10-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019000339/http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/HowCouncilWorks/Elections/Documents/Confirmedlocalelectionresults2016.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2016 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/HowCouncilWorks/Elections/Documents/aucklanddhb2016.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-10-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019014606/http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/HowCouncilWorks/Elections/Documents/aucklanddhb2016.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2016 }}
Achievements
- All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise
| {{AchievementTable|nation=NZL}} |
| 1980
|4th |2:42:24 |
| 1981
|Auckland, New Zealand |bgcolor="gold" | 1st |2:36:16 |
| 1981
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |2:26:46 |
| 1981
|Peachtree Road Race 10 km |bgcolor="gold" | 1st |32:38 |
| 1981
|City2Surf 14 km |Sydney, Australia |bgcolor="gold" | 1st |47:36 |
| 1981
|New York, United States |bgcolor="gold" | 1st |2:25:29 https://www.arrs.run/MaraRank/ATM_Mara1981.htm Course 150 m short on remeasurement |
| 1982
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |2:43:12 |
| 2017
|World Masters Games (Mountain Biking) |Auckland, New Zealand |bgcolor="gold" | 1st |1:12:11 |
References
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External links
- [http://www.allisonroe.co.nz/ Official website]
- {{cite web|title=Interview 4/1/04: Allison Roe |url=http://www.pfitzinger.com/interviews.shtml#roe |accessdate=2008-03-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703224630/http://www.pfitzinger.com/interviews.shtml |archive-date=3 July 2007 }}
- {{New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame}}
- {{World Athletics}}
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{{s-bef | before = Richard Hadlee}}
{{s-ttl | title = New Zealand Sportsman of the Year | years = 1981}}
{{s-aft | after = 1982 New Zealand men's eight}}
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Category:New Zealand female long-distance runners
Category:Athletes from Auckland
Category:Boston Marathon female winners
Category:New York City Marathon female winners
Category:New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Local politicians in New Zealand
Category:Waitemata District Health Board members
Category:People educated at Westlake Girls High School
Category:21st-century New Zealand women
Category:20th-century New Zealand sportswomen
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