New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	NZL
Nocname:	New Zealand Olympic and British Commonwealth Games Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1972
Location:	Munich
Competitors:	89 (82 men, 7 women)
Sports:	14
Flagbearer:	David Aspin (Wrestling)
Rank:	23
Gold:	1
Silver:	1
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1920
See also:	(1908 · 1912)

New Zealand competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. For the first time at the Olympics, God Defend New Zealand was played instead of God Save the King/Queen. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 89 competitors, 82 men and 7 women, who took part in 63 events in 14 sports.^[1]

Medal tables

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie (cox)			2 September
				2 September
				10 September

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

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

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, New Zealand entered one man in the competition.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Laurie D'Arcy	Men's 100 m	10.77	5	did not advance
Rod Dixon	Men's 1500 m	3:40.0	2 Q	3:37.9	1 Q	3:37.5
Jack Foster	align=left	Men's marathon	2:16:56	8
align=left	Sue Haden	align=left	Women's 800 m	2:04.86	4	did not advance
align=left	Penny Hunt	align=left	Women's 400 m	52.82	2 Q	52.66	6	did not advance
align=left	Roger Johnson	align=left	Men's 400 m hurdles	50.48	4	did not advance
Terry Manners	align=left	Men's marathon	2:25:29	34
align=left rowspan=2	Brenda Matthews	align=left	Women's 100 m	11.77	5 Q	11.87	8	did not advance
align=left	Women's 100 m hurdles	13.81	5	did not advance
Dave McKenzie	align=left	Men's marathon	2:22:19	22
Tony Polhill	Men's 1500 m	3:42.3	2 Q	3:41.8	3 Q	3:41.8	9
Dick Quax	Men's 5000 m	14:35.2	9	did not advance
Bevan Smith	Men's 200 m	21.17	3 Q	21.04	4	did not advance
Dick Tayler	Men's 5000 m	13:56.2	10	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Gavin Thorley	Men's 5000 m	14:11.6	10	did not advance
Men's 10,000 m			did not advance

Field

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Les Mills	Men's shot put	18.38	23	did not advance
Men's discus throw	59.22	14 Q	55.86	14
Robin Tait	Men's discus throw	56.60	20	did not advance

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1972 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
Jeff Rackley	Men's welterweight		L 0 – 5	did not advance				=17
Pat Ryan	Men's featherweight		L 1 – 4	did not advance				=17

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Donald Cooper	Men's K-1 1000 m	4:12.45	5 R	4:02.48	1 Q	4:01.97	5	did not advance
Donald Cooper Tom Dooney	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:56.48	5 R	3:45.65	5	did not advance

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Eight cyclists represented New Zealand in 1972.

Road

Men's individual road race

Athlete	Time	Rank
Bruce Biddle	4:15:04	3
Paul Brydon	4:17:03	50
Vern Hanaray
Robert Oliver

Track

Men's 1000 m time trial

Men's team pursuit

Brent Pascoe was the reserve rider, but did not compete.

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's individual

Apparatus qualifying and all-around

Sale did not qualify for any of the apparatus finals.

Women's individual

Apparatus qualifying and all-around

Foote did not qualify for any of the apparatus finals.

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

Team roster

Jeff Archibald Arthur Borren Jan Borren John Christensen Greg Dayman Chris Ineson Ross McPherson Barry Maister

Selwyn Maister Trevor Manning Arthur Parkin Ramesh Patel Alan Patterson Kevin Rigby Ted Salmon Warwick Wright

Head coachRoss Gillespie

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Qualification
align=left		7	5	2	0	25	8	12	Advance to semi-finals
align=left		7	5	1	1	20	9	11	Advance to semi-finals
align=left		7	4	1	2	15	10	9	5th–8th place classification
align=left		7	3	2	2	18	8	8	5th–8th place classification
align=left		7	2	3	2	16	11	7	9th / 10th place play-off
align=left		7	2	2	3	12	12	6	11th / 12th place play-off
align=left		7	1	1	5	8	17	3	13th / 14th place play-off
align=left		7	0	0	7	1	40	0	15th / 16th place play-off

9th / 10th Place play-off

New Zealand finished the men's field hockey tournament in ninth place.

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

See also: List of New Zealand rowers at the Summer Olympics.

1972 was the last year that only men competed at the Olympic rowing events.^[2] New Zealand entered boats in four of the seven events.^[3] The gold medal won by the 1972 New Zealand eight is one of New Zealand's most memorable performances, and was in 2008 rated by sports journalist Joseph Romanos as New Zealand's best ever team performance at the Olympic Games.^[4]

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Fraser Beer Noel Everett (helm) Ron Watson	Dragon	14.0	19.0	21.0	15.0	3.0	0.0		51.0	5
Jock Bilger (helm) Murray Ross	Flying Dutchman	20.0	27.0	3.0	3.0	10.0	17.0	24.0	79.0	9
Bret De Thier	Finn	15.0	11.7	21.0	3.0	33.0	41.0	26.0	109.7	10
Con Linton Steve Marten (helm) Jack Scholes	Soling	20.0	24.0	25.0	26.0	26.0	18.0		113.0	21

Jonty Farmer, Jack Hansen, Geoff Smals and Bryan Treleaven were named as alternates but did not compete.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Four male shooters represented New Zealand in 1972.

Mixed 25 m rapid fire pistol

Mixed 50 m rifle, prone

Athlete	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Rank
Ian Ballinger	98	100	100	100	97	96	591	46
Mike Watt	99	98	100	100	99	97	593	29

Mixed 50 m running target

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Heather Coombridge	align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	1:02.95	35	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:14.78	22	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Colin Herring	align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	54.41	=22	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	2:00.29	26	did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Susan Hunter	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:10.06	26	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:28.28	21	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m individual medley	2:30.29	17	did not advance
align=left	Women's 400 m individual medley	5:14.47	9	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	John McConnochie	align=left	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:15.04	15	did not advance
align=left	Men's 400 m individual medley	4:49.89	17	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Jaynie Parkhouse	align=left	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:40.24	19	did not advance
align=left	Women's 800 m freestyle	9:34.65	16	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Mark Treffers	align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	4:14.10	20	did not advance
align=left	Men's 1500 m freestyle	16:23.86	6 Q	16:18.84	6

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Press		Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
John Bolton	Men's middle heavyweight
Tony Ebert	Men's middleweight	137.5	=16	117.5	=17	155.0	=15	410.0	17
Brian Marsden	Men's light heavyweight	142.5	15	120.0	=17	172.5	=9	435.0	12

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Officials

• Chef de Mission – Joe McManemin^[5]
• Assistant team manager – Jack Prestney^[6]
• Team doctor – Tom Anderson^[7]
• Chaperone – Doris Fitzsimmons^[8]
• Archery section manager – Jack Richards^[9]
• Athletics
  • Section manager – Graham Davy^[9]
  • Coach – Valdemars Briedis^[10]
• Boxing section manager – David Tipping^[11]
• Canoeing section manager – Stan Robinson^[12]
• Cycling
  • Section manager – Colin Hollows^[13]
  • Coach / mechanic – Bruce Goldsworthy^[13]
• Field hockey
  • Section manager – Merv Good^[12]
  • Coach – Ross Gillespie^[12]
• Gymnastics section manager – Cameron A. R. Buchanan^[14]
• Judo section manager – Jack Fielding^[15]
• Rowing
  • Section manager – Fred Strachan^[9]
  • Coach – Rusty Robertson^[9]
  • Assistant coach – Ted Lindstrom^[9]
• Sailing section manager – Hal Wagstaff^[9]
• Shooting section manager – Hong Tse^[16]
• Swimming
  • Section manager – Graeme Brockett^[17]
  • Coach – Pic Parkhouse^[12]
• Weightlifting
  • Section manager – Peter Watson^[18]
  • Coach – Paul Newberry^[12]
• Wrestling section manager – Art Pickering^[9]

Notes and References

1. New Zealand at the 1972 Munich Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055235/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1972/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 13 September 2014.
2. 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.
3. New Zealand Rowing at the 1972 München Summer Games . 11 September 2016.
4. Web site: Romanos . Joseph . Joseph Romanos . New Zealand's rowing eight wins gold . . 2 January 2018 . 31 July 2017.
5. News: Athletics world mourns loss of top coach . 6 August 2014 . . 9 August 2022 . David . Skipwith.
6. News: Prestney Games team manager . 15 December 1977 . . 31 . 9 August 2022.
7. News: Sports-medicine pioneer dies . 22 June 1978 . . 24 . 9 August 2022.
8. News: Secretary is Games chaperone . 4 May 1972 . . 112 . 32907 . 5 . 12 January 2023.
9. News: 69 named for Olympics . 2 May 1972 . . 112 . 32905 . 24 . 11 January 2023.
10. News: The pressures will be "tremendous": Olympic athletic coach wants N.Z. team mentally prepared . 14 June 1972 . . 112 . 32942 . 12 . 12 January 2023.
11. News: "Southpaw opponent": beaten boxer surprised . 1 September 2023 . . 112 . 33010 . 6 . 11 January 2023.
12. News: 47 approved . 30 May 1972 . . 112 . 32929 . 28 . 12 January 2023.
13. News: Discussion on cycling officials deferred . 15 February 1973 . . 113 . 33151 . 36 . 12 August 2022.
14. News: Errand of experience for Olympic gymnasts . 1 August 1972 . . 112 . 32983 . 28 . 11 January 2023.
15. News: Plea for boxer, Byrne: late addition to Games refused . 19 July 1972 . . 112 . 32972 . 32 . 11 January 2023.
16. News: 4 shooters nominated . 8 May 1972 . . 112 . 32910 . 16 . 11 January 2023.
17. News: Olympic tit-bits . 19 August 1972 . . 112 . 32999 . 44 . 11 January 2023.
18. News: Athletes' travel plans . 22 June 1972 . . 112 . 32949 . 24 . 11 January 2023.

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