New Zealand at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games explained

Cga:	NZL
Cganame:	New Zealand Olympic and British Commonwealth Games Association
Games:	British Commonwealth Games
Year:	1974
Location:	Christchurch, New Zealand
Competitors:	142
Flagbearer:	Opening: Warwick Nicholl Closing:
Rank:	4
Gold:	9
Silver:	8
Bronze:	18
Officials:	33

New Zealand at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was represented by a team of 142 competitors and 33 officials. Selection of the team for the Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic and British Commonwealth Games Association. New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was field athlete Warwick Nicholl. The New Zealand team finished fourth on the medal table, winning a total of 35 medals, nine of which were gold.

New Zealand has competed in every games, starting with the British Empire Games in 1930 at Hamilton, Ontario.

Medal tables

New Zealand was fourth on the medal table in 1974, with a total of 35 medals, including nine gold.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's 10,000 m
			Men's discus throw
			Men's fours
			Open full-bore rifle
			Women's 800 m freestyle
			Men's 400 m individual medley
			Men's middleweight
			Men's super heavyweight
			Men's middleweight
			Men's 1500 m
			Women's shot put
			Men's marathon
			Women's 800 m
			Men's light heavyweight
			Men's 1500 m freestyle
			Men's middle heavyweight
			Men's heavyweight
			Men's 200 m
			Men's 800 m
			Men's lightweight
			Men's light middleweight
			Men's middleweight
			Men's pairs
			Men's tandem sprint
			Men's team pursuit
			Open rapid-fire pistol
			Men's 200 m butterfly
			Women's 200 m individual medley
			Women's 400 m individual medley
			Women's 400 m freestyle
			Men's featherweight
			Men's lightweight
			Men's heavyweight
			Men's welterweight
			Men's super heavyweight

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	2	4	2	8
	2	2	3	7
	2	1	4	7
	1	0	2	3
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	1	2
	0	1	3	4
	0	0	2	2
Total	9	8	18	35

Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Male	7	6	14	27
Female	1	2	3	6
Mixed / open	1	0	1	2
Total	9	8	18	35

Competitors

The following table lists the number of New Zealand competitors participating at the Games according to gender and sport.

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	36	23	59
Badminton	4	5	9
Boxing	9		9
Cycling	11		11
Diving	1	3	4
Lawn bowls	7		7
Shooting	10	0	10
Swimming	8	8	16
Weightlifting	9		9
Wrestling	8		8
Total	103	39	142

New Zealanders Jane and Rebecca Perrott swam for Fiji at the games, as their father was Registrar at the University of the South Pacific. At 12½ years, Rebecca was the youngest competitor at the games.^[1]

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Grant Anderson	align=left	Men's 100 m	11.13	6	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m	21.95	4	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Wendy Brown	align=left	Women's 100 m	11.6	3 Q	11.6	3 Q	11.59	5
align=left	Women's 200 m	23.8	3 Q	23.8	3 Q	23.44	6
align=left rowspan=2	Trevor Cochrane	align=left	Men's 100 m	10.86	6	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m	21.68	4	did not advance
align=left	Rod Dixon	align=left	Men's 1500 m	3:44.6	3 Q	3:33.89	4
align=left	Richard Endean	align=left	Men's 400 m	47.94	5	did not advance
align=left	Jack Foster	align=left	Men's marathon	2:11:18.6
align=left	Anne Garrett	align=left	Women's 1500 m	4:19.1	4 Q	4:21.05	6
align=left	Alan Gilmour	align=left	Men's 800 m	1:51.3	4 Q	1:57.78	8	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Sue Haden	align=left	Women's 800 m	2:06.0	1 Q	2:04.9	2 Q	2:02.04
align=left	Women's 1500 m	4:26.8	2 Q	4:27.8	10
align=left	Sue Gukilau	align=left	Women's 400 m	55.3	3 Q	55.76	7	did not advance
align=left	Howard Healey	align=left	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	8:52.4	11
align=left	Nathan Healey	align=left	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	8:52.2	10
align=left	Kerry Hill	align=left	Men's 100 m	10.85	7	did not advance
align=left	Penny Hunt	align=left	Women's 400 m	55.2	2 Q	55.0	3 Q	54.30	7
align=left	Roger Johnson	align=left	Men's 400 m hurdles	52.9	3 Q	52.45	5	did not advance
align=left	Philip Kear	align=left	Men's 400 m	47.7	2 Q	47.13	8	did not advance
align=left	Jan Lothian	align=left	Women's 100 m hurdles	14.0	2 Q	14.26	5	did not advance
align=left	Terry Manners	align=left	Men's marathon	2:12:58.6	4
align=left	Brenda Matthews	align=left	Women's 100 m hurdles	13.7	1 Q	13.9	3 Q	13.95	7
align=left	Rendell McIntosh	align=left	Men's 400 m hurdles	53.1	5 Q	51.95	6	did not advance
align=left	Stuart Melville	align=left	Men's 800 m	1:52.11	5	did not advance
align=left	Michelle Miles	align=left	Women's 100 m hurdles	14.1	4 Q	13.9	4 Q	13.89	5
align=left	Colleen Mills	align=left	Women's 400 m	57.54	5	did not advance
align=left	Phillip Mills	align=left	Men's 110 m hurdles	14.51	6	did not advance
align=left	Lorraine Moller	align=left	Women's 800 m	2:05.8	1 Q	2:04.2	3 Q	2:03.63	5
align=left	Tony Polhill	align=left	Men's 1500 m	3:40.30	4 Q
align=left	Sylvia Potts	align=left	Women's 1500 m	4:19.6	2 Q	4:23.12	8
align=left	Ross Pownall	align=left	Men's 110 m hurdles	14.35	5	did not advance
align=left	Euan Robertson	align=left	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	8:35.2	5
align=left rowspan=2	Kim Robertson	align=left	Women's 100 m	12.06	4	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m	24.56	5	did not advance
align=left	John Robinson	align=left	Men's marathon	2:17:05.4	10
align=left	Bryan Rose	align=left	Men's 5000 m	13:57.2	6 Q	14:00.93	10
align=left rowspan=2	Kevin Ryan	align=left	Men's 5000 m	14:07.42	7	did not advance
align=left	Men's 10,000 m	29:50.0	12
align=left rowspan=2	Bevan Smith	align=left	Men's 200 m	20.9	1 Q	21.2	3 Q	21.08
align=left	Men's 400 m	47.2	2 Q	46.50	2 Q	46.60	6
align=left	Shirley Somervell	align=left	Women's 800 m	2:04.6	2 Q	2:05.2	3 Q	2:05.83	7
align=left	Les Stevenson	align=left	Men's 20 miles walk	2:46:56.2	6
align=left rowspan=2	Dick Tayler	align=left	Men's 5000 m			did not advance
align=left	Men's 10,000 m	27:46.4
align=left	Kevin Taylor	align=left	Men's 20 miles walk
align=left rowspan=2	John Walker	align=left	Men's 800 m	1:47.8	1 Q	1:46.2	2 Q	1:44.92
align=left	Men's 1500 m	3:42.5	1 Q	3:32.52
align=left	Philip Watson	align=left	Men's 10,000 m	29:54.8	13
align=left rowspan=2	Gail Wooten	align=left	Women's 100 m	11.9	4 q	11.88	6	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m	24.0	3 Q	24.01	5	did not advance
align=left	Bevan Smith Grant Anderson Kerry Hill Trevor Cochrane	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 m relay	40.5	4 q	40.41	7
align=left	Bevan Smith Philip Kear Richard Endean Trevor Cochrane	align=left	Men's 4 × 400 m relay	3:08.01	5
align=left	Brenda Matthews Gail Wooten Kim Robertson Wendy Brown	align=left	Women's 4 × 100 m relay	45.3	2 Q	44.68	5
align=left	Lorraine Tong Penny Hunt Shirley Somervell Sue Gukilau	align=left	Women's 4 × 400 m relay	3:37.5	5

Field

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Susan Burnside	align=left	Women's high jump	1.55 m	14
align=left	Women's long jump	6.02 m	Q	5.58 m	11
align=left	Murray Cheater	align=left	Men's hammer throw	65.82 m	5
align=left rowspan=2	Tuariki Delamere	align=left	Men's long jump	7.53 m	Q	7.31 m	9
align=left	Men's triple jump	14.23 m	13
align=left	Pamela Hendren	align=left	Women's long jump	6.37 m	Q	6.11 m	9
align=left	Kerry Hill	align=left	Men's long jump	7.30 m	Q	7.18 m	10
align=left	Sandra McGookin	align=left	Women's javelin throw	47.84 m	6
align=left rowspan=2	Sally Mene	align=left	Women's discus throw	47.10 m	Q	48.80 m	7
align=left	Women's javelin throw	40.44 m	11
align=left	Donna Mills	align=left	Women's high jump	1.60 m	12
align=left	Warwick Nicholl	align=left	Men's hammer throw	63.72 m	7
align=left	Dave Norris	align=left	Men's triple jump	15.41 m	6
align=left	Kathy Otto	align=left	Women's long jump	5.65 m	14	did not progress
align=left	Barbara Poulsen	align=left	Women's shot put	14.90 m	Q	14.60 m	5
align=left rowspan=2	Robin Tait	align=left	Men's discus throw	63.08 m
align=left	Men's shot put	17.71 m	5
align=left	Peter Tracy	align=left	Men's pole vault	4.60 m	5
align=left	Valerie Young	align=left	Women's shot put	14.83 m	Q	15.29 m

Combined

Men's decathlon

Athlete	100 m	Long jump	Shot put	High jump	400 m	110 m hurdles	Discus throw	Pole vault	Javelin throw	1500 m	Overall points	Rank
Mene Mene		6.81 m 780 pts	14.22 m 741 pts		50.9 766 pts						6993 pts	6
Roger Main		6.78 m 774 pts	13.97 m 725 pts		50.3 792 pts						6799 pts	7
Geoffrey Wood		6.38 m 695 pts	13.34 m 685 pts		51.1 758 pts						6622 pts	9

Women's pentathlon

Athlete	100 m hurdles	Shot put	High jump	Long jump	200 m	Overall points	Rank
Susan Burnside	15.1			6.02 m 910 pts		3726 pts	11
Barbara Poulsen	14.4	14.82 m 885 pts				4158 pts	5

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Alison Branfield	Women's singles		W 11–0 11–0	L 3–11 6–11	did not advance
Robin Denton	Women's singles		L 12–10 1–11 6–11	did not advance
Frances Erceg	Women's singles		L 8–11 11–5 3–11	did not advance
Warren Johns	Men's singles		W 5–15 15–7 15–7	L 1–15 12–15	did not advance
Ross Livingston	Men's singles	W 15–10 14–17 18–15	W 15–3 15–3	W 15–9 15–3	L 7–15 8–15	did not advance
Bryan Purser	Men's singles	W 15–4 15–6	W 15–0 15–3	L 4–15 3–15	did not advance
Richard Purser	Men's singles		W 15–12 12–15 15–5	W 15–6 15–10	L 15–6 10–15 9–15	did not advance
Gaynor Weatherley	Women's singles			L 3–11 3–11	did not advance
Warren Johns Ross Livingston	Men's doubles		W 17–14 15–11	W 15–8 15–5	L 3–15 9–15	did not advance
Bryan Purser Richard Purser	Men's doubles			L 10–15 4–15	did not advance
Frances Erceg Glenys Waller	Women's doubles		L 1–15 6–15	did not advance
Alison Branfield Robin Denton	Women's doubles	W 15–8 15–6	L 12–15 4–15	did not advance
Alison Branfield Richard Purser	Mixed doubles		W 13–15 15–6 15–2	W 14–17 15–12 15–14	W 15–13 15–7	L 1–15 12–15	L 10–15 4–15	4
Robin Denton Bryan Purser	Mixed doubles		W 15–5 17–14	L	did not advance
Glenys Waller Warren Johns	Mixed doubles		L 11–15 5–15	did not advance
Gaynor Weatherley Ross Livingston	Mixed doubles		L 10–15 15–18	did not advance

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Warren Karaitiana	Bantamweight		L	did not advance
Derek Wilson	Featherweight		L	did not advance
Robert Colley	Lightweight		W	W	L	Did not advance
David Jackson	Light welterweight		W	L	did not advance
Ronald Jackson	Welterweight		W	L	did not advance
Lance Revill	Light middleweight		W	W	L	Did not advance
Les Rackley	Middleweight			W	L	Did not advance
William Byrne	Light heavyweight			W	W	L
Fisi Brown	Heavyweight		W	L	did not advance

Cycling

Road

Men's road race

Athlete	Time	Rank
Garry Bell	5:18:26	5
Vern Hanaray	5:17:28	4

Track

Men's 1000 m sprint

Athlete	Round 1	First-round repechages				Round 2	Second-round repechage	Round 3	Third-round repechages		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4				Round 1	Round 2
	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
John Dean	L	Progressed via repechages				L	L	did not advance
Paul Medhurst	W 12.16	L	W	L	L	W 11.82	L, L	did not advance		5
Bryce Preston	W 12.33	W 12.48		W 12.36	L, L	did not advance		7

Men's tandem 2000 m sprint

Men's 1 km time trial

Athlete	Time	Rank
John Dean	1:14.22	10
René Heyde	1:12.16	4
Jacob Schriek	1:12.81	6

Men's 4000 m pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Time	Rank	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result
Russell Nant	Individual pursuit	5:25.24	11	did not progress
Blair Stockwell	Individual pursuit	5:08.96	1 Q	W 5:09.63	L	L	4
Paul Brydon René Heyde Russell Nant Blair Stockwell	Team pursuit	4:50.40	2 Q		L	W 4:45.90

Men's 10 miles scratch race

Athlete	Time	Rank
Paul Brydon	20:51.78	6
Paul Medhurst		Unplaced
John Dean		Unplaced

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Cyril Buscke	Men's 3 m springboard	440.73	7
Karen Conway	Women's 3 m springboard	376.83	9
Rebecca Ewert	Women's 3 m springboard	379.29	8
Margaret Lay	Women's 3 m springboard	354.81	10

Lawn bowls

See main article: Lawn bowls at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.

Athlete	Event	Round robin													Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Percy Jones	Men's singles	W 21–18	W 23–18	W 21–13	L 18–21	W 21–13	W 21–13	W 21–15	L 20–21	W 21–16	W 24–15	L 19–21	W 22–10	L 8–21	4
Phil Skoglund Bob McDonald	Men's pairs	W 27–3	L 15–28	W 29–7	W 24–15	W 32–16	W 25–15	W 22–11	W 22–18	W 25–13	L 18–22	D 17–17	W 19–15	W 23–21
Kerry Clark David Baldwin John Somerville Gordon Jolly	Men's fours	W 21–11	W 18–11	W 23–15	L 11–33	W 47–2	L 17–22	W 28–15	W 23–16	W 30–13	W 34–11		W 23–13	W 33–9

Shooting

Pistol

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
James Irvine	Open free pistol	522	12
John Howat	Open rapid-fire pistol	562	14
Bruce McMillan	Open rapid-fire pistol	581

Rifle

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Ian Ballinger	Open small-bore rifle	588	4
Jack Scott	Open small-bore rifle	584	11
Frank Godfrey	Open full-bore rifle	378.25	5
Maurie Gordon	Open full-bore rifle	387.26

Shotgun

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Bruce Anderson	Open skeet	174	11
align=left rowspan=2	James McKenzie	Open skeet	180	9
Open trap	165	13
align=left rowspan=2	Bruce Lassen	Open trap	186	=5

Swimming

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left	Karol Albury	align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	1:03.18	14	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Allison Calder	align=left	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:11.51	10	did not advance
align=left	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:36.43	14	did not advance
align=left	Women's 800 m freestyle	9:14.59	6 Q	9:19.19	6
align=left rowspan=2	John Coutts	align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	59.81	10	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:09.04	4 Q	2:07.03
align=left rowspan=2	Ashley Fogel	align=left	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:19.84	11	did not advance
align=left	Men's 400 m individual medley	4:56.16	13	did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Susan Hunter	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:09.08	7 Q	1:09.06	7
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:29.32	8 Q	2:26.27	6
align=left	Women's 200 m individual medley	2:27:06	2 Q	2:26.18
align=left	Women's 400 m individual medley	5:08.96	3 Q	5:07.20
align=left rowspan=2	Michael Johnston	align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	56.76	17	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	2:01.09	9	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Suzanne Kennedy	align=left	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:13.93	13	did not advance
align=left	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:36.89	15	did not advance
align=left	Women's 800 m freestyle	9:24.32	13	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Debbie Ledgerwood	align=left	Women's 100 m butterfly	1:08.07	12	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m butterfly	2:26.04	8 Q	2:28.40	8
align=left rowspan=2	Brent Lewis	align=left	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:12.70	11	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:34.94	10	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Jane Lowe	align=left	Women's 100 m breaststroke	1:18.42	7 Q	1:17.72	6
align=left	Women's 200 m breaststroke	2:43.34	2 Q	2:45.10	4
align=left rowspan=3	Brett Naylor	align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	56.01	11	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:59.65	4 Q	1:59.35	6
align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	4:09.50	2 Q	4:10.88	5
align=left rowspan=4	Jaynie Parkhouse	align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	1:00.38	4 Q	1:00.96	5
align=left	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:10.32	7 Q	2:08.80	5
align=left	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:25.58	2 Q	4:23.09
align=left	Women's 800 m freestyle	9:01.38	4 Q	8:58.49
align=left rowspan=3	Monique Rodahl	align=left	Women's 100 m butterfly	1:08.65	14	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:27.84	6 Q	2:27.67	7
align=left	Women's 200 m individual medley	2:32.44	12	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Philip Thorogood	align=left	Men's 100 m backstroke	1:04.69	12	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m backstroke	2:16.22	10	did not advance
align=left	Michael Toomey	align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	1:00.61	13	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Mark Treffers	align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	4:15.85	8 Q	4:05.80	4
align=left	Men's 1500 m freestyle	15:59.82
align=left	Men's 400 m individual medley	4:48.74	5 Q	4:35.90
align=left	Ashley Fogel Brett Naylor John Coutts Michael Johnston	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:45.76	5
align=left	Brett Naylor John Coutts Mark Treffers Michael Johnston	align=left	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:01.03	5
align=left	Brent Lewis Brett Naylor Michael Toomey Philip Thorogood	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	4:14.08	6
align=left	Allison Calder Jaynie Parkhouse Susan Hunter Suzanne Kennedy	align=left	Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	4:06.94	5
align=left	Debbie Ledgerwood Jane Lowe Jaynie Parkhouse Monique Rodahl	align=left	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	4:41.54	5

Weightlifting

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean and jerk	Total	Rank
Brian Duffy	Featherweight	102.5 kg	130.0 kg	232.5 kg
Bruce Cameron	Lightweight	110.0 kg	142.5 kg	252.5 kg
Phillip Sue	Lightweight			250.0 kg	5
Tony Ebert	Middleweight	117.5 kg	157.5 kg	275.0 kg
Peter Brosnan	Light heavyweight	127.5 kg	162.5 kg	290.0 kg	4
Brian Marsden	Middle heavyweight	135.0 kg	180.0 kg	315.0 kg
John Bolton	Heavyweight	145.0 kg	195.0 kg	340.0 kg
Rory Barrett	Heavyweight	140.0 kg	180.0 kg	320.0 kg
Graham May	Super heavyweight	150.0 kg	192.5 kg	342.5 kg

Wrestling

Athlete	Event	Elimination rounds				Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Bruce McMahon	Flyweight	L	L	did not progress
Barry Oldridge	Bantamweight	L		L	did not progress
Andy Roche	Featherweight	L	L	did not progress
Paul Dalley	Lightweight	W	L	L	did not progress
Gordon Mackay	Welterweight	L		W	L
David Aspin	Middleweight	W	W	W	W
James Downey	Light heavyweight		L	L	did not progress
Gary Knight	Super heavyweight		L	Both DQ

Officials

• Team manager – Bill Holley^[2]
• Team assistant manager – Alf Haslett
• Team doctor – Graeme Campbell^[3]
• Chaperone – B. Baxter
• Physiotherapist – Peter Stokes^[4]
• Athletics
  • Section manager – Johnny Borland^[5]
  • Section assistant manager – Dave Leech^[5]
  • Section women's manager – P. A. Munro^[5]
  • Chief coach – Frank Sharpley^[5]
  • No. 2 coach – Russ Hoggard^[5]
  • No. 3 coach – Arthur Lydiard^[5]
• Boxing
  • Section manager – C. Scott^[6]
  • Trainer – Les Rackley^[6]
  • Assistant trainer – R. J. Elley^[6]
• Cycling
  • Section manager – D. B. Smith^[7]
  • Coach – Wayne Thorpe^[8]
• Shooting section manager – C. W. Stott^[9]
• Swimming
  • Section manager – Dave Gerrard^[10]
  • Chief coach – Duncan Laing^[11]
• Wrestling
  • Section manager – K. Scott^[12]
  • Coach – Brian Stannett^[12]

See also

• New Zealand Olympic Committee
• New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games
• New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics
• New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics

References

• Official History of the Xth British Commonwealth Games edited by A. R. Cant (2004, Christchurch)
• The Commonwealth Games: the first 60 years 1930–1990 by Cleve Dheensaw (1994, Hodder & Stoughton, Canada/New Zealand)

External links

• NZOC website on the 1974 games
• Commonwealth Games Federation website

Notes and References

1. Wellington’s swim queen in The Wellingtonian, 21 March 2013 p12
2. News: Champagne tea? . 28 January 1974 . . 2 . 9 August 2022.
3. News: N.Z. team doctor . 27 September 1973 . . 24 . 9 August 2022.
4. News: Games team . 22 August 1973 . . 113 . 33310 . 18 . 12 August 2022.
5. News: Coach for Games . 5 September 1973 . . 113 . 33322 . 16 . 12 August 2022.
6. News: Boxing elects officials . 6 August 1973 . . 113 . 33296 . 11 . 12 August 2022.
7. News: Mills in, Kent hopeful . 4 January 1974 . . 114 . 33424 . 16 . 13 August 2022.
8. News: Pursuit team now complete . R. M. . Cairns . 17 October 1973 . . 113 . 33358 . 28 . 13 August 2022.
9. News: Shooting team . 24 September 1973 . . 113 . 33338 . 3 . 12 August 2022.
10. News: Games swimmers may tour north . 17 January 1974 . . 114 . 33435 . 16 . 12 August 2022.
11. News: Swimming coach sought . 12 July 1973 . . 113 . 33275 . 19 . 12 August 2022.
12. News: Wrestling manager . 26 March 1973 . . 113 . 38184 . 3 . 12 August 2022.

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