New Zealand at the 1964 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	NZL
Nocname:	New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1964
Location:	Tokyo
Competitors:	64 (56 men, 8 women)
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Peter Snell
Rank:	12
Gold:	3
Silver:	0
Bronze:	2
Officials:	17
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1920
See also:	(1908 · 1912)

New Zealand at the 1964 Summer Olympics was represented by a team of 64 competitors, 56 men and eight women, who took part in 35 events across 11 sports.^[1] Selection of the team for the Games in Tokyo, Japan, was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association. New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was Peter Snell. The New Zealand team finished equal 12th on the medal table, winning a total of five medals, three of which were gold.

Medal tables

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				16 October
				21 October
				21 October
				20 October
				21 October

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	2	0	2	4
	1	0	0	1
Total	3	0	2	5

Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Male	3	0	1	4
Female	0	0	1	1
Total	3	0	2	5

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Bill Baillie	Men's 5000 m	13:55.4	2 Q	13:51.0	6
Marise Chamberlain	Women's 800 m	2:06.8	2 Q	2:04.6	1 Q	2:02.8
John Davies	Men's 1500 m	3:45.5	2 Q	3:41.9	3 Q	3:39.6
align=left rowspan=2	Murray Halberg	align=left	Men's 5000 m	14:12.0	4	did not advance
align=left	Men's 10,000 m	29:10.8	7
align=left	Jeff Julian	align=left	Men's marathon	2:27:57.6	29
align=left	Ivan Keats	align=left	Men's marathon	2:36:16.8	42
align=left	Barry Magee	align=left	Men's 10,000 m	30:32.0	23
align=left rowspan=2	Avis McIntosh	align=left	Women's 80 m hurdles	10.8	3 Q	10.9	5	did not advance
align=left	Women's 100 m	12.0	4 Q	12.0	6	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Doreen Porter	align=left	Women's 100 m	11.7	2 Q	11.8	5	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m	24.2	3 q	24.0	6	did not advance
align=left	Ray Puckett	align=left	Men's marathon	2:27:34.0	27
align=left	Neville Scott	align=left	Men's 5000 m	15:01.0	11	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Peter Snell	align=left	Men's 800 m	1:49.0	1 Q	1:46.9	1 Q	1:45.1 OR
align=left	Men's 1500 m	3:46.8	4 Q	3:38.8	1 Q	3:38.1

Field

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Les Mills	Men's discus throw	51.70	21	did not advance
Men's shot put	18.05	=6 Q	18.52	7
align=left rowspan=2	Valerie Young	Women's discus throw	51.94	10 Q	49.59	13
Women's shot put	16.40	2 Q	17.26	4

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Paddy Donovan	Men's lightweight		L	Did not advance				=17
Brian Maunsell	Men's light welterweight		L	Did not advance				=17

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Five cyclists represented New Zealand in 1964.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Laurie Byers	align=left rowspan=4	Men's individual road race	4:39:51.74	10
Max Grace	4:39:51.83	66
Dick Johnstone	4:39:51.74	17
Des Thomson	4:39:51.81	61
Laurie Byers Arthur Candy Max Grace Dick Johnstone	Men's team time trial	2:38:37.35	18

Equestrian

See main article: article and Equestrian at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Overall
			Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank
Bruce Hansen	Tide	Individual	24.00	=27	32.00	37	56.00	=31
Graeme Hansen	Saba Sam	Individual	12.75	10	25.00	33	37.75	23
Adrian White	El Dorado	Individual	37.25	36	25.25	34	62.50	35
Bruce Hansen Graeme Hansen Adrian White	See above	Team	74.00	10	82.25	10	156.25	10

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Women's individual

Apparatus qualifying and all-around

Athlete	Vault			Uneven bars			Balance beam			Floor			All-around total	All-around rank
			Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank
align=left	Pauline Gardiner	8.933	8.833	68	8.133	8.266	74	8.733	8.066	76	8.633	8.733	79	68.330	76
align=left	Theodora Hill	8.600	8.933	72	8.400	7.833	77	8.800	8.700	70	8.766	8.933	68	68.965	75
align=left	Jean Spencer	8.600	8.500	76	7.933	8.400	75	8.666	7.300	79	8.366	8.600	81	66.365	78

None of the New Zealand gymnasts qualified for any of the apparatus finals.

Field hockey

See main article: article and Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

Team roster

John Anslow Ernest Barnes Trevor Blake Peter Byers Phil Bygrave Timothy Carter John Cullen

Ross Gillespie Bruce Judge Grantley Judge Ian Kerr Brian Maunsell Alan Patterson Bill Schaefer

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Qualification
align=left		6	6	0	0	17	3	12	Advance to semi-finals
align=left		6	4	0	2	16	5	8	Advance to semi-finals
align=left		6	3	1	2	7	9	7	5th–8th classification round
align=left		6	3	0	3	6	6	6	5th–8th classification round
align=left		6	2	0	4	5	12	4
align=left		6	1	1	4	4	16	3
align=left		6	1	0	5	6	10	2

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

See also: List of New Zealand rowers at the Summer Olympics. In 1964, New Zealand entered boats in three of the seven events:^[2] men's single sculls,^[3] men's coxed four,^[4] and men's eight.^[5] The competition was for men only; women would first row at the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[6]

Sailing

See main article: article and Sailing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Peter Mander	Finn	716	1017	841	716	1620	774	341	5684	4
Helmer Pedersen (helm) Earle Wells	Flying Dutchman	219	101	1423	946	1423	1423	821	6255

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left	Dave Gerrard	align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:16.3	14 Q	2:15.4	13	did not advance
align=left	Vivien Haddon	align=left	Women's 200 m breaststroke	2:53.4	11	did not advance

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Tony Greig	Men's freestyle lightweight	L	L Fall	Eliminated
Roy Meehan	Men's freestyle featherweight	L Fall	L Fall	Eliminated

Officials

• Team manager – William Stevenson^[7]
• Assistant team manager – Ron Shakespeare^[8]
• Team doctor – Renton Grigor
• Chaperone – Zelda Bridgens^[9]
• Athletics section manager – Max Carr^[9]
• Boxing section manager – Syd Ashton^[9]
• Cycling section manager – Bob Carruthers^[9]
• Equestrian section manager – Ben Rutherford^[9]
• Field hockey section manager – Bob Milne^[10]
• Gymnastics section manager – David McKenzie-Edwards^[9]
• Rowing
  • Section manager – Jack Stevenson^[9]
  • Coach (eight and four) – Eric Craies^[9]
• Sailing section manager – Don St Clair Brown^[11]
• Swimming section manager – Bryan Simpson^[10]
• Weightlifting section manager – Trevor Clark^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Zealand at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417090445/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1964/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 17 August 2014 . sports-reference.com.
2. Web site: New Zealand Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417214300/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1964/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . . 5 September 2016.
3. Web site: Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Single Sculls . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132206/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/ROW/mens-single-sculls.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . . 6 September 2016.
4. Web site: Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Coxed Fours . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132140/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/ROW/mens-coxed-fours.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . . 6 September 2016.
5. Web site: Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124712/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/ROW/mens-coxed-eights.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . . 6 September 2016.
6. Web site: Rowing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417052326/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . . 12 September 2016.
7. News: Biographical notes . 2 January 1965 . . 104 . 30638 . 1 . 9 August 2022.
8. News: Decades of service to country recalled . 15 September 2011 . Hawkes Bay Today . 11 August 2022.
9. News: Games officials . 28 July 1964 . . 103 . 30504 . 19 . 14 January 2023.
10. News: Managers chosen: swimming and hockey . 22 July 1964 . . 103 . 30499 . 19 . 14 January 2023.
11. News: Sport in brief: concerned . 14 August 1964 . . 103 . 30519 . 15 . 14 January 2023.

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