it again!
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Jean Bourne does it again!
The brilliant Tahitian athlete Jean Bourne came within a tenth of a second of the French record for 100 metres when he covered the distance in 10.3 seconds at an athletics meeting in Papeete on May 10.
Bourne’s time was three-tenths of a second better than the Pacific Games record of Ne ,\r Caledonia’s Polhin, established in Suva in 1963. /1/W in March > Bourne established a South Pacific record of 21.4 sec. for 200 metres (“ PIM”, May, p. 26).