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{{Short description|New Zealand long-distance runner (born 1934)}}
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| name           = Barry Magee
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| image          = Barry Magee 1960.jpg
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| caption        = Magee in 1960 
| birth_name     = Arthur Barry Magee
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| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1934|2|6|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[New Plymouth]], New Zealand
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| height         = 165 cm
| weight         = 57 kg
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| country        = New Zealand
| sport          = Athletics
| event          = 5000 m, 10,000 m, [[marathon]]
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| club           = Three Kings Athletic Club, Auckland
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| coach          = Gil Edwards <br/>[[Arthur Lydiard]]
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| pb             = 5000 m – 13:39.2 (1961)<br>10,000 m – 28:50.8 (1961)<br>Marathon – 2:17:19 (1960)<ref name=sr/><ref>[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=4108&Gender=M Barry Magee]. trackfield.brinkster.net</ref>
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{{MedalCountry | {{NZL}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Rome]] | [[Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon|Marathon]]}}
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'''Arthur Barry Magee''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (born 6 February 1934) is a retired New Zealand long-distance runner. He won a bronze medal in the [[marathon]] at the 1960 Olympics and in the 10,000 m event placed 26th at the 1960 and 23rd at the 1964 games.<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173726/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/barry-magee-1.html Barry Magee]. sports-reference.com</ref>

==Biography==
Magee was one of the large group of athletes that New Zealand coach [[Arthur Lydiard]] used to revolutionise how the world trained for all sports. At the 1960 Olympic Games, Lydiard's pupils and Magee's training partners [[Murray Halberg]] and [[Peter Snell]] won gold medals over 5000 metres and 800 metres within one hour. Magee's bronze in the marathon further confirmed Lydiard's training methods. Magee went on to win many major international races, including the 1960 [[Fukuoka Marathon]]. But he was much more than a marathon runner; he also ran what were then the world's third-fastest time over 3 miles and fifth-fastest over 5000 metres. He also recorded the world's fastest 10,000 metres and second-fastest 5000 metres for 1961 and was part of New Zealand's world-record-breaking 4 × 1 mile relay team in 1961.<ref name=sr/>

Magee always attributed his success to Lydiard, who had become something of a father figure after Magee's own father died in the same year that Lydiard started coaching him. After retiring from international competition, Magee coached several top runners himself; he currently has a number of high-achieving athletes under his wing, including former New Zealand cross country and mountain running champion Jonathan Jackson, and Lachlan Haitana, winner of the 2019 Huntly Half Marathon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://my.raceresult.com/127005/results?lang=en|title=Huntly Half Marathon, 26/05/2019 : : My.race&#124;result}}</ref> Furthermore, many of his former athletes give him praise, attributing much of their success to the training that took place under his guidance at the BCG (Barry's Cricket Ground), Waitakeres (OTT/22 miler), and Lynfield (Lydiard's Hill Spring circuit).

In the [[2002 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours]], Magee was appointed a [[Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit]] for services to sport.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-and-golden-jubilee-honours-list-2002 |title=Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee honours list 2002 |date=3 June 2002 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=25 June 2020}}</ref>

==Honorific eponym==
Magee Place, in the [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]] suburb of [[Chartwell, Waikato|Chartwell]], is named in Magee's honour.<ref>{{cite news | title=Honouring sportspeople | date=2 November 2012 | work=Waikato Times | page=9}}</ref>

==Quotes==

*"Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count."<ref>[https://archive.today/20130205022154/http://thinkexist.com/quotes/barry_magee/ Barry Magee quotes]. thinkexist.com</ref>
*"Speed kills, distance doesn't"
*"Train don't strain"
*"Hills are the shortcut to success"
*"There are horses for courses"
*"The backstraight is where boys become men"
*"The body can only do what the body is regularly accustomed to doing"
*Here's one of Barry's favourites and it is one of his twelve commandments: "Go straight to bed after training when you're sick"

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Barry Magee}}
* {{World Athletics}}
* {{ARRS}}
* {{New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame}}
* {{New Zealand Olympic Committee|barry-magee}}
* {{Olympics.com profile}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* [http://www.upandrunning.co.nz/ Barry Magee's School of Running]
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014122844/http://www.wesley.org.nz/main/coach.html |date=dmy |title=Tips from Barry Magee}}

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