Which athlete, nicknamed 'The Gisborne Flash', won the 1936 Olympic 1500 metres in Berlin in a world record time, becoming the first from the country to win an Olympic track gold?

• A Peter Snell
• B Jack Lovelock ✓
• C John Walker
• D Murray Halberg

Jack Lovelock's 3:47.8 in the 1936 Berlin Olympic final broke the world record and defeated a field that included the reigning world record holder Glenn Cunningham; Lovelock studied medicine at Oxford and also captained the university's athletics team.