Top 10 New Zealand’s Legendary Athletes And How They Look Now Sponsored 8. Allison Roe Allison Pamela Roe, MBE is a former long-distance athlete from New Zealand. Sponsored In 1981, she won both the Boston Marathon and New York City Marathon, becoming the second of only two women to accomplish the feat in the same year. Sponsored Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10