Alison Wright (athlete)
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Alison Joyce Wright (born 1 December 1949) is a former middle distance runner from New Zealand. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and attended Fairfield College in Hamilton and Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
Wright is best known as the current holder of New Zealand’s longest standing open women’s track and field record. The record she set for 1000 meters of 2.38.54 [1] in the Berlin Olympic Stadium on 17 August 1979 still stands as the New Zealand national record. In late 2011, Wright's time of 4:16.7 from January 1981 was also ratified as the official New Zealand women's indoor 1500 meter record. Wright was also the 1500 meters national champion of New Zealand, Scotland and the United Kingdom (indoors). She represented New Zealand in the Edmonton, Canada 1978 Commonwealth Games and Oceania in the 1979 World Cup Finals in Montreal, Canada. She represented Scotland in the World Cross Country Championships in Madrid in 1981 and the United Kingdom in dual meets in 1981 and 1982. She achieved the 800 meter qualifying standard for the Moscow Olympic Games. Her selection was affected by the international boycott of those Games.
[edit] Personal bests
| Distance | Time | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800 m | 2:02.70 | Cologne | 1979 |
| 1000 m | 2:38.54 NR | Berlin | 1979 |
| 1500 m | 4:11.70 | Zurich | 1979 |
| 3000 m | 9:00.68 | Cork | 1981 |
