List of New Zealand sportspeople
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The following is a list of New Zealand sportspeople.
Rugby union
Main article: List of New Zealand national rugby union footballers
Motorsports
- Chris Amon – Formula One and sports car driver
- Bruce Anstey - motorcycle road racer
- Possum Bourne – rally driving
- Barry Briggs - motorcycle speedway rider
- Graeme Crosby - motorcycle road racer
- Scott Dixon – four-time IndyCar champion
- Denny Hulme – 1967 Formula One champion
- Ivan Mauger – six-time motorcycle speedway world champion
- Bruce McLaren – Formula One and CanAm driver
- Scott McLaughlin - touring car driver
- Stefan Merriman - enduro rider
- Steve Millen – sports car and off-road truck driver
- Burt Munro – motorcycle speedway and land speed record holder
- Greg Murphy – touring car driver
- Chris Pither – touring car driver
- Aaron Slight - motorcycle road racer
- Ben Townley - World Champion, Motocross
- Shane Van Gisbergen - touring car driver
Track and field
- Valerie Adams – shotputter, four-time Olympic Champion
- David Ambler – 100m, 200m sprints
- Anne Audain – runner
- Hamish Carter – triathlete
- Rod Dixon – runner
- Murray Halberg – runner
- Jack Lovelock – runner
- Arthur Lydiard – running coach
- Lorraine Moller – runner, won Boston Marathon
- Dick Quax – runner
- Allison Roe – runner, won Boston and New York City Marathons 1981
- Peter Snell – runner, three times Olympic Champion
- John Walker – runner, Olympic champion
- Nick Willis – runner, Commonwealth champion, Olympic silver medallist
- John Young - ultra distance runner; first person to run from Wellington to Auckland 1962 Bluff to Cape Reinga 1964; first man to run across the Nulabhour Plain in Australia 1968
Watersports
- Jo Aleh – world champion and Olympic champion sailor
- Sir Peter Blake – yachtsman
- Trent Bray – world champion swimmer
- Nathan Cohen - world champion and Olympic champion rower
- Russell Coutts – yachtsman, Olympic Champion
- Caroline Evers-Swindell - champion rower
- Georgina Evers-Swindell - champion rower
- Ian Ferguson – kayaker
- Danyon Loader – double olympic champion swimmer
- Jonathan Winter – world champion swimmer
Basketball
- Steven Adams – basketball player
- Pero Cameron – basketball player
- Sean Marks – basketball player
Golf
- Michael Campbell – golfer
- Sir Bob Charles – champion golfer
- Lydia Ko - champion golfer
- Danny Lee - golfer
- Steve Williams – caddy
Soccer
Main article: List of New Zealand international footballers
Rugby league
Main article: List of New Zealand Kiwis representatives
See also: List of New Zealand Warriors players
Miscellaneous
- Mark Hunt - mixed martial artist
- Christine Jensen Burke – mountaineer
- Bob Fitzsimmons – world boxing heavyweight champion (born in UK, raised in NZ)
- Tom Fyfe – mountaineer and mountain guide
- Tony Garea – former WWWF/WWF professional wrestler
- Sir Richard Hadlee – cricketer
- Sir Edmund Hillary – mountaineer
- Precious McKenzie – weightlifter (born in South Africa)
- Wynton Rufer – soccer player, voted Oceania Player of the Century
- Mark Todd – horseman
- Sarah Ulmer – cyclist
- Irene Van Dyk – netball player (born in South Africa)
- John Walker – runner
- Michael Walker – jockey
- Sarah Walker – BMX rider
- Tony Wilding – tennis player
- Casey Williams – netball player (current captain)
- Adine Wilson – netball player(former captain)
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