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Former prime minister Clark greatest living New Zealander: poll
Jan 23, 2009, 19:00 GMT
Wellington - Former prime minister Helen Clark, who lost November's election after nine years in office, has won a newspaper poll as the Greatest Living New Zealander, it was reported on Saturday.
Clark, 58, edged out soldier Willie Apiata, who won the Victoria Cross - the British Commonwealth's supreme military award for bravery - for rescuing a comrade under enemy fire in Afghanistan in 2004, in the New Zealand Herald poll.
The newspaper held the poll following the death last year of Everest conqueror and Antarctic explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, who was unchallenged holder of the unofficial title.
Olympic medallists Murray Halberg and Peter Snell and film director Peter Jackson, who made The Lord of the Rings trilogy, completed the top five nominated by the paper's readers.
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