Owairaka Athletic Club

The club was founded at Anderson Park, Mt Albert in 1943 and moved to its present site in the 1960s with the construction of the Lovelock Track which was opened on April 15, 1961.

[2][3] During the 1960s the club led the world in middle and long distance running under the guidance of the legendary coach Arthur Lydiard (ONZ, OBE).

[6] It is the training group of Murray Halberg, Peter Snell, Barry Magee, Bill Baillie, Jeff Julian and Ray Puckett known as Arthur's Boys which captures the history of this era.

Over the next ten years, the members entered non-competitive teams into relay events and maintained the children’s athletics programme.

[13] During the 50th anniversary year of the 1961 Lovelock Track opening, Sir Murray Halberg opened the new clubrooms [14] which coincided with the launch of a new five-year plan to rebuild the full membership of the club.