New Zealand Olympic medallists

New Zealand at the Olympics
IOC code	NZL
NOC	New Zealand Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.org.nz
Medals	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 0 0
Summer appearances
1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter appearances
1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014
Other related appearances
Australasia (1908 · 1912)

New Zealand Olympic medallists have achieved considerable sporting success for New Zealand, often considered to be notable due to the relatively small population of the country (4.69 million as of June 2016). Being located in the remote South Pacific, New Zealanders needed to endure long sea voyages to attend the early Olympics. It was not until the VII Olympiad in 1920 that New Zealand sent its first team. Prior to that, three New Zealanders won medals competing for Australasian teams in 1908 and 1912. On only two occasions since 1920 has New Zealand failed to win a medal at the Summer Olympics, in 1948 at London and in 1980 at Moscow, when only four competitors were sent as a result of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott.^[1]

New Zealand has had a much smaller participation in the Winter Olympics, due to the country's temperate climate, not generally experiencing the severe winters to lowland levels, common in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere. The first New Zealand team to attend a Winter Olympics was in 1952. In 1992, Annelise Coberger of New Zealand became the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to win a medal at the Winter Olympics when she won silver in the slalom at Albertville in France. Her medal is included in the list below.

The sporting rivalry between New Zealand and bigger neighbour Australia has been evident at many Olympic Games. In 1984, some Australian media outlets poked fun at the New Zealand gold medallists, saying they had been sitting down on the job at the Los Angeles Games, where they were successful in canoeing, equestrian, rowing and sailing. The New Zealand media pointed out that New Zealand had finished 8th on the final medals table, and Australia only 14th. New Zealand has finished higher than Australia on the medals table only in 1976, when Australia failed to win a gold medal, and Los Angeles in 1984.

Total medals

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
47	27	46	120

*Table includes New Zealanders who competed as part of Australasia in 1908 and 1912.

Milestones

• First medal (by a New Zealander): Victor Lindberg (1900, for Great Britain)^[2]
• First Gold medal (by a New Zealander): Victor Lindberg (1900, for Great Britain)
• First medal (for New Zealand): Clarence Hadfield D'Arcy (1920)
• First Gold medal (for New Zealand): Ted Morgan (1928)
• First female medallist: Yvette Williams (1952)
• First female Gold medallist: Yvette Williams (1952)
• First double medallist: Peter Snell (1960, 1964)
• First double Gold medallist: Peter Snell (1960, 1964)
• First double Gold medallist at a single Games: Peter Snell (1964)
• First triple medallist: Peter Snell (1960, 1964)
• First triple Gold medallist: Peter Snell (1960, 1964)
• First triple medallist at a single Games: Ian Ferguson (1984)
• First triple Gold medallist at a single Games: Ian Ferguson (1984)
• First quadruple medallists: Ian Ferguson & Paul McDonald (1984, 1988)
• First quadruple Gold medallist: Ian Ferguson (1984, 1988)
• First quintuple medallist: Ian Ferguson & Paul McDonald (1984, 1988)
• First (and only to date) winter olympics medallist: Annelise Coberger (1992)
• First female double medallist: Vicky Latta (1992, 1996)
• First female triple medallist: Barbara Kendall (1992, 1996, 2000)
• First female double Gold medallists: Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell (2004, 2008)
• First female double medallist at a single Games: Lisa Carrington (2016)

Medallists

#	Medal	Games	Name	Sport	Event	Date
1	Bronze	1920 Antwerp	Hadfield, DarcyDarcy Hadfield	Rowing	Men's single sculls	29 August 1920
2	Bronze	1924 Paris	Porritt, ArthurArthur Porritt	Athletics	Men's 100 metres	7 July 1924
3	Gold	1928 Amsterdam	Morgan, TedTed Morgan	Boxing	Men's welterweight	11 August 1928
4	Silver	1932 Los Angeles	Stiles, CyrilCyril Stiles Fred Thompson	Rowing	Men's coxless pair	13 August 1932
5	Gold	1936 Berlin	Lovelock, JackJack Lovelock	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	6 August 1936
6	Bronze	1952 Helsinki	Holland, JohnJohn Holland	Athletics	Men's 400 metres hurdles	21 July 1952
7	Gold	1952 Helsinki	Williams, YvetteYvette Williams	Athletics	Women's long jump	23 July 1952
8	Bronze	1952 Helsinki	Stewart, JeanJean Stewart	Swimming	Women's 100 metre backstroke	31 July 1952
9	Gold	1956 Melbourne	Read, NormanNorman Read	Athletics	Men's 50 kilometres walk	24 November 1956
10	Gold	1956 Melbourne	Cropp, JackJack Cropp Peter Mander	Sailing	12m² Sharpie	5 December 1956
11	Gold	1960 Rome	Snell, PeterPeter Snell	Athletics	Men's 800 metres
12	Gold	1960 Rome	Halberg, MurrayMurray Halberg	Athletics	Men's 5000 metres
13	Bronze	1960 Rome	Magee, BarryBarry Magee	Athletics	Men's marathon
14	Gold	1964 Tokyo	Snell, PeterPeter Snell	Athletics	Men's 800 metres
15	Bronze	1964 Tokyo	Chamberlain, MariseMarise Chamberlain	Athletics	Women's 800 metres
16	Gold	1964 Tokyo	Snell, PeterPeter Snell	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres
17	Bronze	1964 Tokyo	Davies, JohnJohn Davies	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres
18	Gold	1964 Tokyo	Pedersen, HelmerHelmer Pedersen Earle Wells	Sailing	Flying Dutchman
19	Gold	1968 Mexico City	Cole, WarrenWarren Cole Ross Collinge Dick Joyce Dudley Storey Simon Dickie (cox)	Rowing	Men's coxed four
20	Bronze	1968 Mexico City	Ballinger, IanIan Ballinger	Shooting	Mixed 50 metre rifle, prone
21	Bronze	1968 Mexico City	Ryan, MikeMike Ryan	Athletics	Men's marathon
22	Silver	1972 Munich	Collinge, RossRoss Collinge Noel Mills Dudley Storey Dick Tonks	Rowing	Men's coxless four	2 September 1972
23	Gold	1972 Munich	Coker, TrevorTrevor Coker Athol Earl John Hunter Tony Hurt Dick Joyce Gary Robertson Wybo Veldman Lindsay Wilson Simon Dickie (cox)	Rowing	Men's eight	2 September 1972
24	Bronze	1972 Munich	Dixon, RodRod Dixon	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	10 September 1972
25	Bronze	1976 Montreal	Coker, TrevorTrevor Coker Peter Dignan Athol Earl Tony Hurt Alec McLean Dave Rodger Ivan Sutherland Lindsay Wilson Simon Dickie (cox)	Rowing	Men's eight	25 July 1976
26	Gold	1976 Montreal	men's national team, New ZealandNew Zealand men's national team Paul Ackerley   Barry Maister Jeff Archibald   Selwyn Maister Arthur Borren   Trevor Manning Alan Chesney   Alan McIntyre John Christensen   Arthur Parkin Greg Dayman   Mohan Patel Tony Ineson   Ramesh Patel	Hockey	Men's tournament	30 July 1976
27	Silver	1976 Montreal	Quax, DickDick Quax	Athletics	Men's 5000 metres	30 July 1976
28	Gold	1976 Montreal	Walker, JohnJohn Walker	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	31 July 1976
29	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Todd, MarkMark Todd	Equestrian	Individual eventing	3 August 1984
30	Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	Lawton, KevinKevin Lawton Barrie Mabbott Don Symon Ross Tong Brett Hollister (cox)	Rowing	Men's coxed four	5 August 1984
31	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Shane O'Brien Les O'Connell Conrad Robertson Keith Trask	Rowing	Men's coxless four	5 August 1984
32	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Sellers, RexRex Sellers Chris Timms	Sailing	Tornado	8 August 1984
33	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Coutts, RussellRussell Coutts	Sailing	Finn	8 August 1984
34	Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	Kendall, BruceBruce Kendall	Sailing	Men's Windglider	8 August 1984
35	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Ferguson, IanIan Ferguson	Canoeing	Men's K-1 500 metres	10 August 1984
36	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Ferguson, IanIan Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-2 500 metres	10 August 1984
37	Silver	1984 Los Angeles	Barry, KevinKevin Barry	Boxing	Men's light heavyweight	11 August 1984
38	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Thompson, AlanAlan Thompson	Canoeing	Men's K-1 1000 metres	11 August 1984
39	Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Bramwell, GrantGrant Bramwell Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald Alan Thompson	Canoeing	Men's K-4 1000 metres	11 August 1984
40	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Bennie, AndrewAndrew Bennie Margaret Knighton Tinks Pottinger Mark Todd	Equestrian	Team eventing	22 September 1988
41	Gold	1988 Seoul	Todd, MarkMark Todd	Equestrian	Individual eventing	22 September 1988
42	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Kingsman, PaulPaul Kingsman	Swimming	Men's 200 metre backstroke	22 September 1988
43	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Hannen, LynleyLynley Hannen Nikki Payne	Rowing	Women's coxless pair	24 September 1988
44	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Johnston, GregGreg Johnston George Keys Ian Wright Chris White Andrew Bird (cox)	Rowing	Men's coxed four	24 September 1988
45	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Verdonk, EricEric Verdonk	Rowing	Men's single sculls	24 September 1988
46	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Mosse, AnthonyAnthony Mosse	Swimming	Men's 200 metre butterfly	24 September 1988
47	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Cutler, JohnJohn Cutler	Sailing	Finn	27 September 1988
48	Silver	1988 Seoul	Sellers, RexRex Sellers Chris Timms	Sailing	Tornado	27 September 1988
49	Gold	1988 Seoul	Kendall, BruceBruce Kendall	Sailing	Men's Division II	27 September 1988
50	Bronze	1988 Seoul	MacDonald, PaulPaul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-1 500 metres	30 September 1988
51	Gold	1988 Seoul	Ferguson, IanIan Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-2 500 metres	30 September 1988
52	Bronze	1988 Seoul	Ferguson, IanIan Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-2 1000 metres	1 October 1988
53	Silver	1992 Albertville (winter)	Coberger, AnneliseAnnelise Coberger	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom	20 February 1992
54	Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Anderson, GaryGary Anderson	Cycling	Men’s individual pursuit	29 July 1992
55	Silver	1992 Barcelona	Latta, VickiVicki Latta Andrew Nicholson Blyth Tait	Equestrian	Team eventing	30 July 1992
56	Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Tait, BlythBlyth Tait	Equestrian	Individual eventing	30 July 1992
57	Silver	1992 Barcelona	Loader, DanyonDanyon Loader	Swimming	Men's 200 metre butterfly	30 July 1992
58	Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Moller, LorraineLorraine Moller	Athletics	Women's marathon	1 August 1992
59	Gold	1992 Barcelona	Kendall, BarbaraBarbara Kendall	Sailing	Women's Lechner	2 August 1992
60	Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Egnot, LeslieLeslie Egnot Jan Shearer	Sailing	Women's 470	3 August 1992
61	Silver	1992 Barcelona	Cowie, DonDon Cowie Rod Davis	Sailing	Star	3 August 1992
62	Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Monk, CraigCraig Monk	Sailing	Finn	3 August 1992
63	Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Tua, DavidDavid Tua	Boxing	Men's heavyweight	8 August 1992
64	Gold	1996 Atlanta	Loader, DanyonDanyon Loader	Swimming	Men's 200 metre freestyle	20 July 1996
65	Gold	1996 Atlanta	Loader, DanyonDanyon Loader	Swimming	Men's 400 metre freestyle	23 July 1996
66	Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Jefferis, VaughnVaughn Jefferis Vicki Latta Andrew Nicholson Blyth Tait	Equestrian	Team eventing	26 July 1996
67	Gold	1996 Atlanta	Tait, BlythBlyth Tait	Equestrian	Individual eventing	26 July 1996
68	Silver	1996 Atlanta	Clark, SallySally Clark	Equestrian	Individual eventing	26 July 1996
69	Silver	1996 Atlanta	Kendall, BarbaraBarbara Kendall	Sailing	Women's Mistral	2 August 1996
70	Bronze	2000 Sydney	Todd, MarkMark Todd	Equestrian	Individual eventing	22 September 2000
71	Gold	2000 Sydney	Waddell, RobRob Waddell	Rowing	Men's single sculls	23 September 2000
72	Bronze	2000 Sydney	Kendall, BarbaraBarbara Kendall	Sailing	Women's Mistral	24 September 2000
73	Bronze	2000 Sydney	McIntosh, AaronAaron McIntosh	Sailing	Men's Mistral	24 September 2000
74	Gold	2004 Beijing	Evers-Swindell, CarolineCaroline Evers-Swindell Evers-Swindell, GeorginaGeorgina Evers-Swindell	Rowing	Women's double sculls	21 August 2004
75	Gold	2004 Beijing	Ulmer, SarahSarah Ulmer	Cycling	Women's individual pursuit	22 August 2004
76	Gold	2004 Beijing	Carter, HamishHamish Carter	Triathlon	Men's event	26 August 2004
77	Silver	2004 Beijing	Docherty, BevanBevan Docherty	Triathlon	Men's event	26 August 2004
78	Silver	2004 Beijing	Fouhy, BenBen Fouhy	Canoeing	Men's K-1 1000 m	27 August 2004
79	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Drysdale, MahéMahé Drysdale	Rowing	Men's single sculls	16 August 2008
80	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Twaddle, NathanNathan Twaddle Bridgewater, GeorgeGeorge Bridgewater	Rowing	Men's coxless pair	16 August 2008
81	Gold	2008 Beijing	Evers-Swindell, GeorginaGeorgina Evers-Swindell Evers-Swindell, CarolineCaroline Evers-Swindell	Rowing	Women's double sculls	16 August 2008
82	Silver	2008 Beijing	Roulston, HaydenHayden Roulston	Cycling	Men's individual pursuit	16 August 2008
83	Gold	2008 Beijing	Vili, ValerieValerie Vili	Athletics	Women's shot put	16 August 2008
84	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Roulston, HaydenHayden Roulston Sergent, JesseJesse Sergent Ryan, MarcMarc Ryan Bewley, SamSam Bewley	Cycling	Men's team pursuit	18 August 2008
85	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Docherty, BevanBevan Docherty	Triathlon	Men's triathlon	19 August 2008
86	Silver	2008 Beijing	Willis, NickNick Willis	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	19 August 2008
87	Gold	2008 Beijing	Ashley, TomTom Ashley	Sailing	Men's RS:X	20 August 2008
88	Bronze	2012 London	Nicholson, AndrewAndrew Nicholson Paget, JonathanJonathan Paget Powell, CarolineCaroline Powell Richards, JonelleJonelle Richards Mark Todd	Equestrian	Team eventing	31 July 2012
89	Bronze	2012 London	Haigh, JulietteJuliette Haigh Rebecca Scown	Rowing	Women's pair	1 August 2012
90	Gold	2012 London	Cohen, NathanNathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan	Rowing	Men's double sculls	2 August 2012
91	Gold	2012 London	Bond, HamishHamish Bond Eric Murray	Rowing	Men's pair	3 August 2012
92	Gold	2012 London	Drysdale, MahéMahé Drysdale	Rowing	Men's single sculls	3 August 2012
93	Bronze	2012 London	Bewley, SamSam Bewley Aaron Gate Westley Gough Marc Ryan Jesse Sergent	Cycling	Men's team pursuit	3 August 2012
94	Bronze	2012 London	Taylor, PeterPeter Taylor Storm Uru	Rowing	Men's lightweight double sculls	4 August 2012
95	Gold	2012 London	Adams, ValerieValerie Adams	Athletics	Women's shot put	6 August 2012
96	Bronze	2012 London	Velthooven, Simon vanSimon van Velthooven	Cycling	Men's keirin	7 August 2012
97	Silver	2012 London	Burling, PeterPeter Burling Blair Tuke	Sailing	49er class	8 August 2012
98	Gold	2012 London	Aleh, JoJo Aleh Polly Powrie	Sailing	Women's 470	10 August 2012
99	Silver	2012 London	Walker, SarahSarah Walker	Cycling	Women's BMX	10 August 2012
100	Gold	2012 London	Carrington, LisaLisa Carrington	Canoeing	Women's K-1 200 m	11 August 2012
101	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Rooney, NatalieNatalie Rooney	Shooting	Women's trap	7 August 2016
102	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	rugby sevens team, New Zealand women'sNew Zealand women's rugby sevens team Shakira Baker   Kayla McAlister Kelly Brazier   Tyla Nathan-Wong Gayle Broughton   Terina Te Tamaki Theresa Fitzpatrick   Ruby Tui Sarah Goss   Niall Williams Huriana Manuel   Portia Woodman	Rugby sevens	Women's tournament	8 August 2016
103	Gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Bond, HamishHamish Bond Eric Murray	Rowing	Men's coxless pair	11 August 2016
104	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Jones, LuukaLuuka Jones	Canoeing	Women's slalom K-1	11 August 2016
105	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Dawkins, EddieEddie Dawkins Ethan Mitchell Sam Webster	Cycling	Men's team sprint	11 August 2016
106	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Behrent, GenevieveGenevieve Behrent Rebecca Scown	Rowing	Women's coxless pair	12 August 2016
107	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Adams, ValerieValerie Adams	Athletics	Women's shot put	12 August 2016
108	Gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Drysdale, MahéMahé Drysdale	Rowing	Men's single sculls	13 August 2016
109	Gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Carrington, LisaLisa Carrington	Canoeing	Women's K-1 200 m	16 August 2016
110	Bronze	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Meech, SamSam Meech	Sailing	Laser	16 August 2016
111	Bronze	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Carrington, LisaLisa Carrington	Canoeing	Women's K-1 500 m	18 August 2016
112	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Aleh, JoJo Aleh Polly Powrie	Sailing	Women's 470	18 August 2016
113	Gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Burling, PeterPeter Burling Blair Tuke	Sailing	Men's 49er	18 August 2016
114	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Maloney, AlexAlex Maloney Molly Meech	Sailing	Women's 49erFX	18 August 2016
115	Bronze	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Walsh, TomasTomas Walsh	Athletics	Men's shot put	18 August 2016
116	Bronze	2016 Rio de Janeiro	McCartney, ElizaEliza McCartney	Athletics	Women's pole vault	19 August 2016
117	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Ko, LydiaLydia Ko	Golf	Women's individual	20 August 2016
118	Bronze	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Willis, NickNick Willis	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	20 August 2016

At the 1972 Summer Olympics, Bruce Biddle originally finished fourth in the cycling road race. When the original Bronze medallist was subsequently disqualified for drug usage, Biddle should have been placed third. However he was not awarded the Bronze medal as he had not been asked to take a drugs test. Despite the continued efforts of the New Zealand Olympic Committee, the International Olympic Committee refused to overturn its decision.

Pre-NZOC medals

Gold

• 1912 Stockholm
  • Malcolm Champion, swimming, member of Australasian 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team
• 1900 Paris
  • Victor Lindberg, water polo, member of Great Britain's Osborne Swimming Club

Bronze

• 1912 Stockholm
  • Anthony Wilding, tennis, singles, member of Australasian team
• 1908 London
  • Harry Kerr, athletics, 3500 m walk, member of Australasian team

Most successful Olympians

New Zealanders who have won two or more gold medals, or three or more medals:

Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Ian Ferguson	4	1	-	5
Paul MacDonald	3	1	1	5
Peter Snell	3	-	-	3
Danyon Loader	2	1	-	3
Valerie Adams	2	1	-	3
Mark Todd	2	-	3	5
Simon Dickie	2	-	1	3
Mahé Drysdale	2	-	1	3
Lisa Carrington	2	-	1	3
Dick Joyce	2	-	-	2
Alan Thompson	2	-	-	2
Caroline Evers-Swindell	2	-	-	2
Georgina Evers-Swindell	2	-	-	2
Hamish Bond[3][4]	2	-	-	2
Eric Murray[5][6]	2	-	-	2
Blyth Tait	1	1	2	4
Barbara Kendall	1	1	1	3
Andrew Nicholson	-	1	2	3

See also

• New Zealand at the Olympics

Notes

1. New Zealand Olympic Committee: 1980 Moscow
2. "Original NZ Olympian celebrated". The Northland Age. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
3. http://www.olympic.org.nz/sports/rowing/
4. https://www.olympic.org/rowing/coxless-pair-2-men
5. https://www.olympic.org/rowing/coxless-pair-2-men
6. http://www.olympic.org.nz/sports/rowing/