Howard Healey, Howie to his mates, was one of several family combinations in the New Zealand track and field team at the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games.

Healey and his twin brother Nathan, born in March 1949, were the only set of twins in the team. But there was also a mother (Colleen Mills) and her son and daughter (Phillip and Donna), a husband and wife (Mene and Sally Mene) and a future husband and wife (Grant Anderson and Sue Burnside). But for the whims of the selectors, there could have been further family combinations in Christchurch.

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