New Pacific Record
p. 28 · Read in the full issue
For 200 Metres
French Polynesia's champion athlete Jean Bourne clipped another three-tenths of a second off his best time for 200 metres at an athletics meeting in Tahiti in March.
Bourne's record for the 200 metres now stands at 21.4 sec., which is six-tenths of a second better than the South Pacific Games record estab lished by P-NG's Bruce Pitcher at Suva in 1963.
Bourne established a South Pacific record of 21.8 sec. for the 200 metres at a meeting in Tahiti in April, 1967. He cut a further one tenth of a second from this at a meeting in Suva in February (PIM, March, p. 20) when he was "almost untouchable in winning the 100 and 200-metre sprints".