Runs Hard At Drop Of Hanky

Runs Hard At Drop Of Hanky

Noel Coventry is a 22-year-old deaf athlete and the sole New Zealand representative going to the Deaf Olympics in Yugoslavia. Club officials would drop a handkerchief for him to sight as a sign that the starting gun had been fired.

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Malcolm Ward

Noel Coventry

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Deaflympics

Taonga source:

Auckland Deaf Society

Reference number:

SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1969-004

Bibliographic source:

Unknown, 21 June 1969

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