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In Memory of Graham Tattersall

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Outstanding athlete, coach, administrator, mentor and friend of all at Wellington Harrier Athletic Club Graham Tattersall lost his battle with melanoma cancer and died on Thursday 16 October aged 69.

Tattersall was a distance coach legend in Wellington, coaching a number of New Zealand champions and national representatives including Jonathan Wyatt, Derek Froude, Dallas McCallum, John Henwood, Tim Cornish and Philip Starr. During the early 1990’s he coached the Rongotai College running squad which included Starr, Michael Tannock and Hayden Florence. The team went unbeaten in all of 1992. For the last 17 years he has coached the team at Scots College which included runners that he also coached at Wellington Harrier Athletic Club including Kieron McDonald, Nicholas Pointon, Nathan Tse, James Fletcher and Marcus Karamanolis (St Pats),

Quiet and unassuming Tattersall, or as he was known as Tatts, was a no nonsense and effective coach with the Wellington Harrier Athletic Club for over 40 years. He was particularly successful with the teams from the Club at the national road relay championships with wins in the 1978, 1992, 1993 and more recently the 2012 and 2013 junior men’s championship.

He was appointed either a manager or coach to a number of New Zealand teams to Olympic and Commonwealth Games, World Athletic and Cross Country Championships and Ekiden Relays.

Among the many appointments he undertook were:

1992 World Cross Country Championships Boston, team manager.
1992 Australian Cross Country Championships Nowra NSW, team manager.
1992 Chiba Ekiden Relay, team manager.
1993 World Cross Country Championships Spain, assistant manager.
1996 Olympic Games Atlanta USA, coach.
1996 Chiba Ekiden Relay, coach.
1997 World Championships in Athletics Athens Greece, coach.
1998 Commonwealth Games Kuala Lumpur, coach.
1999 World Cross Country Championships Belfast Northern Ireland, manager.
1999 Chiba Ekiden Relay, coach.
2004 Olympic Games Athens Greece, coach.
2011 Chiba Ekiden Relay, team leader.
2012 Chiba Ekiden Relay, manager.
2013 Chiba Ekiden Relay, coach.

Tattersall was a former top soccer player in the UK before turning to running. He competed with success in master events in New Zealand and at the 1999 New Zealand cross country championships he was third in the 50-54 age group. He was Athletics New Zealand acting performance director in 2005 and was a IAAF level 3 distance coach and lecturer.

A memorial service to celebrate the life and achievements of Graham will be held at 2pm, Sunday 26 October at Scots College, Monorgan Road, Strathmore Park, Wellington.

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