Waikato pole vaulter Peter Tracy produced his best results overseas and is therefore somewhat overlooked in discussions about New Zealand's leading athletes.

But Tracy, who vaulted for New Zealand at the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games, set a national record of 5.20 in El Paso in 1976 and it lasted 16 years. Even five decades later it was still comfortably 6th on the New Zealand all-time rankings.

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Peter's Games History