John Maxwell Carr was a New Zealand field athlete and coach, athletics official, and air force officer.
15 Facts About Max Carr
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Max Carr represented his country at the 1950 and 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and served as a wing commander in the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
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Max Carr married his wife, Norma Joy, in about 1949, and they had one daughter.
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Max Carr then joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force, flying two tours of operation with No 16 Squadron in the Pacific, and was promoted from pilot officer to flying officer in September 1944.
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Max Carr left the RNZAF in January 1946, but rejoined in December 1948.
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Max Carr was promoted to the rank of wing commander in 1961, and was appointed as director of works for the RNZAF, responsible for the planning and administration of works construction and maintenance programmes.
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Max Carr joined the Technical Amateur Athletic and Cross-Country Club in Christchurch in the 1930s.
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In 21 consecutive New Zealand national championship hammer competitions, Max Carr never finished outside the top three: recording 13 second and three third placings, as well as his five title wins.
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Max Carr set a national record for the hammer throw on three occasions.
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At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, Max Carr represented New Zealand in both the discus and hammer throws.
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Four years later, at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Max Carr was New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening ceremony.
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Max Carr won numerous age-group titles in the hammer, discus and shot put at New Zealand Masters championships in the 1980s and 1990s, and he won three world Masters hammer throw gold medals: in the M70 category in 1993 and 1995; and the M75 age group in 1997.
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At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Max Carr was a New Zealand's athletic section manager, and for many years he served as an amateur athletics official in Auckland, verifying the specification of throwing equipment.
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Max Carr received a merit award from Athletics New Zealand in 1991.
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Max Carr was involved in coaching, and, with Les Mills, trained Beatrice Faumuina during the early stages of her career.