New Zealand at the Olympics
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Medals Ranked 26th |
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Australasia (1908–1912) |
New Zealand first sent an independent team to the Olympics in 1920. Prior to this, at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics, New Zealand and Australian athletes competed together in a combined Australasia team. New Zealand has also participated in most Winter Olympic Games since 1952, missing only the 1956 and 1964 Games.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) is the National Olympic Committee for New Zealand. The NZOC was founded in 1911, and recognised by the IOC in 1919.
New Zealand athletes have won a total of 143 medals, with 137 won at the Summer Games and six at the Winter Games. The most successful sports has been
Following the 2020 Summer Olympics, 1519 competitors had represented New Zealand at Olympic Games.
New Zealand at the Summer Games
The first person from
Due to its location in the
New Zealand, as with other Southern Hemisphere countries, has had the disadvantage of needing to peak to compete in summer sports which are held during their winter months. Only three Olympics have ever been held in the Southern Hemisphere, the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
New Zealand's
New Zealand at the Winter Games
New Zealand has had a much smaller participation in the Winter Olympics, owing to its oceanic climate and Southern Hemisphere location requiring athletes to peak in the middle of the New Zealand summer. The nation did not assemble their first Winter Olympic team until 1952. In 1988 the team included bobsleighers; the first entry in a winter sport other than alpine skiing.
In 1992,
.In 2018,
Four years later in 2022, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott also won New Zealand's first ever Winter Olympics gold medal, in the women's slopestyle. Nico Porteous later won New Zealand’s second ever Winter Olympics gold medal, again in the men’s ski half pipe.
Participation
Timeline of participation
Date | Team | |
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1900–1904 | Australia (AUS) | |
1908–1912 | Australasia (ANZ) | |
1920– | Australia (AUS) | New Zealand (NZL) |
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Sport
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Medals by Winter Sport
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Summary by sport
Sailing
Games | No. Sailors | Events | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Ranking |
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1896 | Scheduled but event wasn't held | ||||||
1900 | 0 | 0/13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1904 | Not Scheduled | ||||||
1908 | 0 | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1912 | 0 | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1916 | Games Cancelled | ||||||
1920 | 0 | 0/14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1924 | 0 | 0/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1928 | 0 | 0/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1932 | 0 | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1936 | 0 | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1940 | Games Cancelled | ||||||
1944 | Games Cancelled | ||||||
1948 | 0 | 0/5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1952 | 0 | 0/5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1956 | 5 | 2/5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
1960 | 3 | 2/5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1964 | 3 | 2/5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
1968 | 3 | 2/5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1972 | 9 | 4/6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1976 | 8 | 4/6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1980 | 0 | 0/6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1984 | 11 | 6/7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
1988 | 13 | 7/8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
1992 | 17 | 10/10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
1996 | 16 | 10/10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
2000 | 18 | 11/11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
2004 | 12 | 8/11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2008 | 9 | 7/11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
2012 | 15 | 9/10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
2016 | 12 | 7/10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
2020 | 10 | 6/10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11= |
Total | 9 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 9 |
See also
- List of flag bearers for New Zealand at the Olympics
- List of New Zealand Olympic medallists
- Category:Olympic competitors for New Zealand
- New Zealand Olympic Committee
- New Zealand at the Paralympics
References
- ^ The New Zealand Olympic Committee records all athletes chosen for the Olympics, numbered sequentially. Harry Kerr is identified as "New Zealand Olympian: 1".
- ^ New Zealand Olympic Committee: Harry Kerr
- ^ a b c Leggat, David (11 June 2009). "21 Kiwi Olympians fail to register". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ^ "New Zealand Olympic Committee: 1111 Olympians Honoured this Week". Archived from the original on 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
External links
- "New Zealand". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
- "New Zealand". Olympedia.com.
- "Olympic Analytics/NZL". olympanalyt.com.
- Athletics in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand has a paragraph on each Olympiad and Empire Games to 1964
- The Olympics (NZHistory.net.nz)
- The Joseph Romanos list of our best Olympians
- Medal Count for NZ at DatabaseOlympics.com (total of 78 not complete)
- New Zealand Olympic Committee's Museum App
- "New Zealand". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.