New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	NZL
Nocname:	New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1988
Location:	Seoul
Competitors:	83 (67 men, 16 women)
Sports:	16
Flagbearer:	Ian Ferguson
Rank:	18
Gold:	3
Silver:	2
Bronze:	8
Officials:	61
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1920
See also:	(1908 · 1912)

New Zealand competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 83 competitors, 67 men and 16 women, took part in 58 events in 16 sports.^[1] In addition, New Zealand sent four women to compete in Taekwondo, which was one of the Olympic Games' demonstration sports. Sports administrator Bruce Ullrich was New Zealand's Chef de Mission, after previously having had that role for the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games.^[2]

Medal tables

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				27 September
				30 September
				2 October
				27 September
				1 October
				22 September
				24 September
	Ian Wright Greg Johnston Chris White Andrew Bird (cox)			24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				27 September
				30 September
				2 October

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
	1	1	1	3
	1	1	1	3
	1	0	1	2
	0	0	3	3
	0	0	2	2
Total	3	2	8	13

Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
Male	2	1	6	9
Female	0	0	1	1
Mixed / open	1	1	1	3
Total	3	2	8	13

Competitors

The following table lists the number of New Zealand competitors participating at the Games according to gender and sport.^[3]

width=150	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	2	4	6
Canoeing	7	0	7
Cycling	12	1	13
Equestrian	6	2	8
Fencing	1	0	1
Gymnastics	0	1	1
Judo	2	–	2
Rowing	10	2	12
Sailing	11	2	13
Shooting	4	0	4
Swimming	5	2	7
Table tennis	2	0	2
Tennis	2	1	3
Weightlifting	1	–	1
Wrestling	2	–	2
Total	67	16	83

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics. New Zealand's 1988 archery team included only one woman, veteran Ann Shurrock.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anne Audain	Women's 10,000 m	32:10.73	12 q	32:10.47	11
John Campbell	Men's marathon	2:14:08	12
Christine McMiken	Women's 10,000 m	32:20.39	10	did not advance
Lorraine Moller	Women's marathon	2:37:52	33
Christine Pfitzinger	Women's 3000 m	9:01.30	9	did not advance

Combined

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Grant Bramwell Brent Clode John McDonald Stephen Richards	Men's K-4 1000 m	3:10.27	5 R	3:11.27	3 Q	3:15.90	4	did not advance
Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Men's K-2 500 m	1:32.32	1 Q	1:33.81	1 Q	1:33.98
Men's K-2 1000 m	3:20.44	1 Q	3:23.13	1 Q	3:32.71
Paul MacDonald	Men's K-1 500 m	1:41.65	2 Q	1:43.33	1 Q	1:46.46
Alan Thompson	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:48.10	4 R	3:46.20	1 Q	3:45.40	4	3:56.91	6

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Thirteen cyclists, twelve men and one woman, represented New Zealand in 1988.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Brian Fowler	align=left	Men's individual road race	4:32:56	75
Madonna Harris	align=left	Women's individual road race
Graeme Miller	align=left	Men's individual road race	4:32:46	8
Wayne Morgan	align=left	Men's individual road race
Brian Fowler Greg Fraine Paul Leitch Gavin Stevens	align=left	Men's team time trial	2:03:48.7	12

Track

Men's 1 km time trial

Men's individual pursuit

Men's team pursuit

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Eventing

Rider	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping		Overall
Rider	Horse	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Andrew Bennie	Grayshott	Individual	52.20	8	85.60	21	5.00	23	162.80	20
Margaret Knighton	Enterprise	Individual	74.60	36	90.00	24
Tinks Pottinger	Volunteer	Individual	65.80	23	0.00	=1	0.00	=1	65.80	5
Mark Todd	Charisma	Individual	37.60	1	0.00	=1	5.00	=11	42.60
Andrew Bennie Margaret Knighton Tinks Pottinger Mark Todd	As above	Team	155.60	3	85.60	2	30.00	6	271.20

Jumping

Individual

Athlete	Horse	Qualifying				Final			Rank
Athlete	Horse	Round 1	Round 2	Total points	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total faults	Rank
Maurice Beatson	Jeferson Junior	43.50	16.00	59.50	48	did not advance
John Cottle	Ups & Downs	13.50				did not advance
Mark Todd	Bago	55.00	33.00	88.00	30 Q	12.00	did not advance
Harvey Wilson	Crosby	22.50	19.50	42.00	55	did not advance

Team

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. One male fencer represented New Zealand in 1988.

Athlete	Event	Round 1 pool	Quarterfinal pool	Semifinal pool	Final pool	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=5	Martin Brill	align=left rowspan=5	Men's individual épée	L 4 – 5	L 2 – 5	W 5 – 3	W 10 – 8	L 3 – 10	did not advance	7
L 0 – 5	W 5 – 2	W 5 – 3	L 9 – 10
W 5 – 1	W 5 – 4	W 5 – 2	W 10 – 7
W 5 – 0	W 5 – 4	L 4 – 5	W 10 – 5
W 5 – 2		L 4 – 5	W 10 – 7

Gymnastics

Rhythmic

Women's individual all-around

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Elimination pool			Repechage pool		Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Brent Cooper	Men's half-lightweight	W	W	L	W	L	Did not advance	=5
Bill Vincent	Men's middleweight	W	L	Did not advance				=13

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Women

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. New Zealand had thirteen competitors in Seoul; eleven men and two women.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Net points	Final rank
John Cutler	Men's Finn	15.0	~~16.0~~	8.0	8.0	14.0	0.0	0.0	45.0
Simon Daubney Tom Dodson (helm) Aran Hansen	Soling	8.0	15.0	13.0	~~22.0~~	5.7	21.0	11.7	74.4	7
Peter Evans (helm) Simon Mander	Men's 470	5.7	14.0	17.0	~~24.0~~	3.0	13.0	10.0	62.7	6
Fiona Galloway (helm) Jan Shearer	Women's 470	~~22.0~~	10.0	17.0	19.0	13.0	13.0	11.7	83.7	9
Murray Jones (helm) Greg Knowles	Flying Dutchman	3.0	0.0	15.0	8.0	18.0	~~20.0~~	16.0	60.0	5
Bruce Kendall	Men's Division II	5.7	5.7	0.0	10.0	14.0	0.0	~~15.0~~	35.4
Rex Sellers Chris Timms (helm)	Tornado	~~16.0~~	5.7	0.0	8.0	11.7	0.0	10.0	35.4

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's 50 m rifle, prone

Men's 50 m pistol

Mixed skeet

Athlete	Qualification		Semifinal				Final	Total	Rank
Athlete	Score	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Rank	Final	Total	Rank
John Farrell	137	51	did not advance						51
John Woolley	143	=33	did not advance						=33

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Ross Anderson	align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	52.33	36	did not advance
align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	56.31	25	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:02.40	20	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Anthony Beks	align=left	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:05.65	39	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:27.26	42	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Sylvia Hume	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:05.81	25	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:21.55	21	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Paul Kingsman	align=left	Men's 100 m backstroke	57.80	19	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m backstroke	2:02.20	7 Q	2:00.48 NR
align=left rowspan=2	Richard Lockhart	align=left	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:06.27	46	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:24.52	36	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Anthony Mosse	align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	54.63	10 QB	54.63	10
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	1:58.71	2 Q	1:58.28 NR
align=left rowspan=2	Sharon Musson	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:04.58	14 QB	1:04.17	15
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:17.47	13 QB	2:16.06	10
align=left	Paul Kingsman Anthony Beks Anthony Mosse Ross Anderson	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	3:48.93	11	did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Pool stage										Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	W	L	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Barry Griffiths	Men's singles	L 0 – 3	L 1 – 3	W 3 – 2	L 0 – 3	L 2 – 3	W 3 – 1	L 0 – 3	2	5	7	did not advance
Barry Griffiths Peter Jackson	Men's doubles	L 0 – 2	W 2 – 0	L 0 – 2	L 0 – 2	L 0 – 2	L 0 – 2	L 0 – 2	1	6	8		did not advance

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Belinda Cordwell	Women's singles	L 6–4 5–7 2–6	did not advance					=33
Kelly Evernden	Men's singles	W 7–6 6–3 6–3	L 4–6 6–3 1–6 5–7	did not advance				=17
Bruce Derlin Kelly Evernden	Men's doubles		W 6–4 4–1 ret.	L 7–6 4–6 2–6 6–3 1–6	did not advance			=9

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Final round	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Brent Hollamby	Men's bantamweight	W 12–4	L 4–14		L 4–19	Eliminated
Steve Reinsfield	Men's featherweight	L	L 0–13	Eliminated

Demonstration sports

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kirsten Demanser	Women's finweight	L	did not advance		=5
Rosemary Wilson	Women's featherweight	L	did not advance		=5
Bronwyn Wilson	Women's middlerweight	L	did not advance		=5
Susan Graham	Women's heavyweight	L	did not advance		=5

Notes and References

New Zealand at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044100/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1988/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 6 May 2017 .
Web site: Bruce Ullrich. University of Canterbury. 5 May 2017.
https://www.olympedia.org/countries/NZL/editions/22 New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics
New Zealand Sailing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417060624/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1988/SAI/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 10 May 2017 .