Kiwi Hero John Walker Honoured (Video)
Champion medium distance runner, John Walker has been knighted in the Queens Birthday honours list.
Sir John says news of his knighthood came out of the blue. “Everyone says that but it did. The letter came to the shop [Stirrups, an equestrian supplies business he owns with wife, Lady Helen]. It said I’d been selected for a knighthood. I put it in a drawer and thought about it for a while.” Sir John, made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992, is honoured for services to sport and the community, particularly his beloved Manukau City.
He accepted it as recognition of a long career in athletics and in his roles as a councillor, establishing the children’s charity Variety and now with the John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation.
“I’d had this great career in running and then to go into the hospitals and to see kids with leukaemia or heart problems, well, it makes you think. It helped me tackle Parkinsons because … you realise there are people, kids, much worse off”
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Good video. Thanks!
Well deserved. What a legend.
Mike
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