New Zealand at the 1986 Commonwealth Games explained

Cga:	NZL
Cganame:	New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association
Games:	Commonwealth Games
Year:	1986
Location:	Edinburgh, Scotland
Competitors:	127
Flagbearer:	Stephanie Foster
Rank:	4
Gold:	8
Silver:	16
Bronze:	14
Officials:	45

New Zealand at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was represented by a team of 127 competitors and 45 officials. Selection of the team for the Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening and closing ceremonies was sculler Stephanie Foster.^{[1] [2]} The New Zealand team finished fourth on the medal table, winning a total of 38 medals, eight of which were gold.

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

Medal tables

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's heavyweight
			Men's singles
			Women's double scull
			Women's single scull
			Open air pistol
			Open free pistol
			Women's 100 m backstroke
			Men's 200 m butterfly
			Women's 10,000 m
			Women's marathon
			Men's 1 km time trial
			Men's 4000 m team pursuit
			Men's 100 km team time trial
			Men's individual road race
			Men's coxed four
			Women's lightweight single scull
			Men's coxless four
			Men's coxless pair
			Men's 100 m backstroke
			Men's 200 m backstroke
			Men's 100 m butterfly
			Men's bantamweight
			Men's heavyweight
			Men's bantamweight
			Men's javelin throw
			Men's decathlon
			Men's doubles
			Men's featherweight
			Men's 10 mile scratch race
			Men's 4000 m individual pursuit
			Men's eight
			Men's single scull
			Open skeet pairs
			Open centre-fire pistol pairs
			Open air pistol pairs
			Men's 400 m freestyle
			Women's solo
			Men's featherweight

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	2	4	2	8
	2	3	1	6
	2	0	3	5
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	0	1
	0	4	2	6
	0	2	2	4
	0	2	1	3
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
Total	8	16	14	38

Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Male	3	13	10	26
Female	3	3	1	7
Mixed / open	2	0	3	5
Total	8	16	14	38

Competitors

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

width=150	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	13	12	25
Badminton	4	4	8
Boxing	5		5
Cycling	15		15
Diving	2	1	3
Lawn bowls	7	7	14
Rowing	21	2	23
Shooting	11	0	11
Swimming	9	4	13
Synchronised swimming		1	1
Weightlifting	4		4
Wrestling	5		5
Total	96	31	127

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left	Anne Audain	align=left	Women's 10,000 m	31:53.31
align=left	John Bowden	align=left	Men's 10,000 m	29:25.65	9
align=left	David Burridge	align=left	Men's 5000 m	13:36.79	6
align=left	John Campbell	align=left	Men's marathon	2:21:25	13
align=left	Murray Day	align=left	Men's 30 km walk	2:15:11	6
align=left	Debbie Elsmore	align=left	Women's 10,000 m
align=left	Terry Genge	align=left	Women's 100 m hurdles	14.06	8	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Michael Gilchrist	align=left	Men's 1500 m	3:45.91	6	did not advance
align=left	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	8:43.96	6
align=left	Anne Hare	align=left	Women's 1500 m	4:14.44	5 q	4:17.56	9
align=left	Christine McMiken	align=left	Women's 10,000 m
align=left rowspan=2	Lorraine Moller	align=left	Women's 3000 m	9:03.89	5
align=left	Women's marathon	2:28:17
align=left	Mary O'Connor	align=left	Women's marathon	2:46.48	9
align=left	Wayne Paul	align=left	Men's 5000 m	53.39	4	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Christine Pfitzinger	align=left	Women's 1500 m	4:27.70	4 Q	4:16.81	6
align=left	Women's 3000 m	9:09.35	6
align=left rowspan=2	Peter Renner	align=left	Men's 1500 m	3:47.06	9	did not advance
align=left	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	8:27.12	4
align=left	Kerry Rodger	align=left	Men's 5000 m	13:52.04	11
align=left	Graham Seatter	align=left	Men's 30 km walk	2:22:48	9
align=left	Lynette Stock	align=left	Women's 100 m hurdles	13.67	5	did not advance
align=left	John Walker	align=left	Men's 5000 m	13:35.34	5

Field

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
align=left	Gavin Lovegrove	align=left	Men's javelin throw	76.22 m
align=left	Jayne Moffitt	align=left	Women's long jump	6.19 m	6
align=left	Lyn Osmers	align=left	Women's javelin throw	38.70 m	12
align=left	John Stapylton-Smith	align=left	Men's javelin throw	65.76 m	9
align=left	Trudy Woodhead	align=left	Women's high jump	1.86 m	6

Combined

Men's decathlon

Women's heptathlon

Athlete	100 m hurdles	Shot put	High jump	200 m	Long jump	Javelin throw	800 m	Overall points	Rank
Terry Genge	13.92 990 pts	13.22 m 742 pts	1.61 m 747 pts	25.60 833 pts	6.02 m 856 pts	34.68 m 566 pts	2:14.62 898 pts	5632 pts	6
Lyn Osmers	15.21 814 pts	11.33 m 617 pts	1.79 m 966 pts	26.38 764 pts	5.75 m 774 pts	48.74 m 836 pts	2:26.29 740 pts	5511 pts	7

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Singles

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
Kerrin Harrison	Men's singles		W 9–15 15–10 15–5	L 5–15 8–15	did not advance
Phil Horne	Men's singles		W 15–12 15–11	W	L 2–15 2–15	did not advance
Katrin Lockey	Women's singles		W 11–0 11–0	L 4–11 1–11	did not advance
Karen Phillips	Women's singles		L 3–11 2–11	did not advance
Graeme Robson	Men's singles		W 15–4 15–5	W 15–3 15–4	L 5–15 9–15	did not advance
Glenn Stewart	Men's singles		W 15–0 15–5	L 8–15 1–15	did not advance
Toni Whittaker	Women's singles		W 12–9 11–5	L 2–11 8–11	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Kerrin Harrison Glenn Stewart	Men's doubles	W 15–10 15–9	W 15–1 15–5	W 12–15 15–10 18–13	L 9–15 5–15	W 15–12 15–11
Phil Horne Graeme Robson	Men's doubles		L 2–15 15–11 14–18	did not advance
Katrin Lockey Toni Whittaker	Women's doubles		W 18–14 15–7	L 12–15 5–15	did not advance
Karen Phillips Ann Stephens (NIR)	Women's doubles		L 4–15 2–15	did not advance
Phil Horne Katrin Lockey	Mixed doubles	L 15–11 13–18 5–15	did not advance
Graeme Robson Toni Whittaker	Mixed doubles	L 10–15 12–15	did not advance
Glenn Stewart Karen Phillips	Mixed doubles	W 15–8 5–15 15–9	W 15–5 15–10	L 5–15 3–15	did not advance

Teams

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Shane Buckley	Bantamweight	L	did not advance
Johnny Wallace	Featherweight		W	L	Did not advance
Apelu Ioane	Light welterweight		L	did not advance
Raeli Raeli	Light heavyweight		L	did not advance
Jimmy Peau	Heavyweight			W	W

Cycling

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Stephen Cox	Men's individual road race	4:11:25	7
Brian Fowler	align=left	Men's individual road race	4:08:50
Craig Griffin	Men's individual road race	4:12:47	11
Graeme Miller	Men's individual road race	4:11:19	5
Blair Cox Greg Fraine Paul Leitch Graeme Miller	Men's 100 km team time trial	2:14:50

Track

Men's 1000 m sprint

Athlete	Round 1	First-round repechages	Round 2	Second-round repechages	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Mike McRedmond	L	W	L	W	L, L	did not advance		6
William Rastrick	W		L	W	L, L	did not advance		5
Murray Steele	L	W	L	L	did not advance

Men's 1 km time trial

Athlete	Time	Rank
Gary Anderson	1:06.334
Pierre Jordan	1:08.633	9
Murray Steele	1:08.661	10

Men's 4000 m pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Time	Rank	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result
Gary Anderson	Individual pursuit	4:54.87	4 Q	W 4:52.11	L	W 4:51.073
Stephen Swart	Individual pursuit	5:04.27	10	did not advance
Andrew Whitford	Individual pursuit	4:56.08	6 Q	L	did not advance		6
Gary Anderson Russell Clune Stephen Swart Andrew Whitford	Team pursuit	4:29.87	2 Q		W 4:29.17	L

Men's 10 miles scratch race

Athlete	Time	Rank
Gary Anderson
Murray Steele		11

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Nicky Cooney	Women's 3 m springboard	469.62	5
Mark Graham	Men's 3 m springboard	478.14	13
align=left rowspan=2	Raymond Vallance	Men's 3 m springboard	528.21	9
Men's 10 m platform	449.37	11

Lawn bowls

See main article: Lawn bowls at the 1986 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
Ian Dickison	Men's singles	W 21–16	W 21–20	W 21–4	W 21–8	W 21–14	W 21–12	W 21–20	W 21–16	W 21–10	W 21–15	W 21–12	L 18–21
Maurice Symes Wayne Nairn	Men's pairs	D 21–21	W 23–18	W 23–17	L 12–20	L 15–22	L 17–19	W 25–14	L 15–24	W 24–21	W 25–14	L 13–17	L 20–23	7
Stewart McConnell Keith Slight John Murtagh Morgan Moffat	Men's fours	L 13–27	W 17–13	W 21–18	W 32–10	W 22–19	W 20–14	L 16–23	L 17–23	L 15–21	W 29–14	W 25–17		4
Rhoda Ryan	Women's singles	W 21–16	L 18–21	W 21–10	L 14–21	L 20–21	W 21–7	L 4–21	L 18–21	L 19–21	W 21–5	W 21–19		9
Joyce Osborne Millie Khan	Women's pairs	W 26–12	L 14–25	L 16–21	L	L	W 23–19	W 36–8	W 19–16	W 26–19	L 20–22	6
Daphne Le Breton Vera Bindon Denise Page Jennifer Simpson	Women's fours	L 13–27	L 18–22	W 28–19	W 21–12	L 9–32	L 15–29	W 21–15	W 26–18	W 30–11	L 14–17	W 24–16	W 33–10	5

Rowing

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left	Eric Verdonk	align=left	Men's single scull	7:23.74	2 R	7:22.38	1 Q	7:39.11
align=left	Stephanie Foster	align=left	Women's single scull	7:43.22
align=left	Dale Maher Eric Verdonk	align=left	Men's double scull	7:24.70	2 R	6:46.44	2 Q	6:28.95	4
align=left	Robin Clarke Stephanie Foster	align=left	Women's double scull	7:21.52
align=left	Dale Maher	align=left	Men's lightweight single scull	7:41.55	3 R	7:33.50	4 Q	7:44.14	6
align=left	Philippa Baker	align=left	Women's lightweight single scull	7:45.82
align=left	Barrie Mabbott Ian Wright	align=left	Men's coxless pair	7:27.76	2 R	7:15.78	2 Q	6:42.63
align=left	Andrew Stevenson Don Symon Neil Gibson Shane O'Brien	align=left	Men's coxless four	6:42.41	1 Q	6:00.85
align=left	Bruce Holden Chris White Greg Johnston Nigel Atherfold Andrew Bird (cox)	align=left	Men's coxed four	6:30.99	2 R	6:48.30	2 Q	6:09.89
align=left	Gary Hay Martin Eade Michael Westenra Simon Koller	align=left	Men's lightweight coxless four	6:37.14	4
align=left	Andrew Stevenson Barrie Mabbott Carl Vincent Don Symon Ian Wright Mike Burrell Neil Gibson Shane O'Brien Andy Hay (cox)	align=left	Men's eight	5:47.97

Shooting

Pistol

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Rex Hamilton	Open centre-fire pistol	579	4
Open free pistol	547	4
align=left rowspan=2	Barry O'Neale	Open centre-fire pistol	577	5
Open rapid-fire pistol	567	14
Barrie Wickins	Open air pistol	570	6
align=left rowspan=2	Greg Yelavich	Open air pistol	575
Open free pistol	551
Barrie Wickins Greg Yelavich	Open air pistol pairs	1140
Rex Hamilton Barry O'Neale	Open centre-fire pistol pairs	1153
Rex Hamilton Greg Yelavich	Open free pistol pairs	1067	5

Rifle

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Eddie Adlam	Open air rifle	574	8
Open small-bore rifle 3 position	1136	6
Chester Burt	Open full-bore rifle	389	11
Frank Godfrey	Open full-bore rifle	388	14
Roger Harvey	Open small-bore rifle prone	593	13
align=left rowspan=2	Stephen Petterson	Open air rifle	561	13
Open small-bore rifle prone	594	8
align=left rowspan=2	Eddie Adlam Stephen Petterson	Open air rifle pair	1118	7
Open small-bore rifle 3 position pair	2198	6
Chester Burt Frank Godfrey	Open full-bore rifle pairs	582	5
Roger Harvey Stephen Petterson	Open small-bore rifle prone pair	1162	=4

Shotgun

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
John Farrell	Open skeet	192	7
John Woolley	Open skeet	194	4
John Farrell John Woolley	Open skeet pairs	189

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Ross Anderson	align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	55.66	6 Q	55.93	7
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:03.01	6 Q	2:02.96	8
align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	52.83	12	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Carmel Clark	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:05.49	7 Q	1:05.34	7
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:19.36	4 Q	2:19.29	5
align=left	Women's 200 m individual medley	2:24.43	11	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Mike Davidson	align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:57.89	13	did not advance
align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	3:58.96	6 Q	3:56.96
align=left	Men's 1500 m freestyle	15:55.23	7 Q	15:38.54	6
align=left rowspan=2	Grant Forbes	align=left	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:05.89	8 Q	1:06.34	8
align=left	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:24.89	12	did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Brent Foster	align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:59.07	16	did not advance
align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	4:15.75	14	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:14.25	13	did not advance
align=left	Men's 400 m individual medley	4:43.33	11	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Sylvia Hume	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:05.02	3 Q	1:04.00
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:21.95	9	did not advance
align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	1:01.83	22	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Gary Hurring	align=left	Men's 100 m backstroke	58.97	11	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m backstroke	2:10.20	14	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Paul Kingsman	align=left	Men's 100 m backstroke	57.76	2 Q	57.17
align=left	Men's 200 m backstroke	2:05.19	3 Q	2:02.90
align=left rowspan=2	Richard Lockhart	align=left	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:06.74	13	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:25.50	13	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Fiona McLay	align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	59.62	11	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:04.95	4 Q	2:04.01	4
align=left	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:32.52	14	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Anthony Mosse	align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	54.61	2 Q	54.31
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:00.26	2 Q	1:57.27
align=left rowspan=3	Kirk Torrance	align=left	Men's 100 m backstroke	58.81	9	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m backstroke	2:06.63	8 Q	2:07.79	8
align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	58.10	15	did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Kerrylyne Torrance	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:06.16	10	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:21.45	7 Q	2:19.87	6
align=left	Women's 100 m butterfly	1:05.64	12	did not advance
align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	1:02.44	24	did not advance
align=left	Paul Kingsman Anthony Mosse Grant Forbes Ross Anderson	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	3:54.84	3 Q	3:48.58	4
align=left	Carmel Clark Fiona McLay Kerrylyne Torrance Sylvia Hume	align=left	Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	4:02.43	5

Weightlifting

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean and jerk	Total	Rank
Clayton Chelley	Bantamweight	95.0 kg	122.5 kg	217.5 kg
Michael Bernard	Light heavyweight
Allister Nalder	Middle heavyweight	147.5 kg
Kevin Blake	Sub heavyweight	147.5 kg	175.0 kg	322.5 kg	5

Wrestling

Athlete	Event	Group rounds		Final /	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Shane Stannett	Flyweight	L	W	L	4
Steve Reinsfield	Bantamweight	W	W	L
Stephen Bell	Bantamweight	W	L	W
Zane Coleman	Welterweight	L	L	did not advance
Robert Algie	Heavyweight	W	W	L

Officials

• Team manager – Bruce Ullrich^[3]

See also

• • New Zealand Olympic Committee New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games
• New Zealand at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics

External links

• NZOC website on the 1986 games
• Commonwealth Games Federation website

Notes and References

1. News: Leggat . David . Where is she now? Stephanie Foster . 20 November 2022 . . 22 March 2021.
2. News: Athletes turn closing into one big party . 4 August 1986 . . 33 . 17 September 2024 . PapersPast.
3. News: New Zealanders honoured by Queen . 31 December 1986 . . 3 . 17 September 2024 . PapersPast.

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