Harold Tyrie

Athletics Representing Otago, Tyrie won the New Zealand national 440 yards title three times: in 1936, 1939, and 1940. At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, he finished sixth in the final of the men's 440 yards, and was a member of the New Zealand quartet in the men's 4 x 440 yards relay that won the bronze medal.

He later turned to coaching, and trained athletes including Don Jowett and Robin Tait.

Rugby union A second-row forward from the Southern Rugby Football Club in Dunedin, Tyrie played two representative rugby union games for Otago, in 1938 and 1941. Later, in 1944, with the rank of corporal, Tyrie was wounded in Italy while serving with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Later life and death In later life, Tyrie was a ceramic artist of some note. He died in Christchurch on 22 February 2007.