New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	NZL
Nocname:	New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1992
Location:	Barcelona
Competitors:	134 (92 men, 42 women)
Sports:	17
Flagbearer:	Mark Todd
Rank:	28
Gold:	1
Silver:	4
Bronze:	5
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1920
See also:	(1908 · 1912)

New Zealand competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 134 athletes and 70 officials. 134 competitors, 92 men and 42 women, took part in 87 events in 17 sports.^[1] Ralph Roberts was the team's Chef de Mission.^[2]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				4 August
				30 July
				30 July
				4 August
				4 August
				29 July
				30 July
				1 August
				4 August
				8 August

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	1	2	1	4
	0	1	1	2
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
Total	1	4	5	10

Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Male	0	1	3	4
Female	1	1	1	3
Mixed / open	0	2	1	3
Total	1	4	5	10

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[3]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	7	6	13
Badminton	2	2	4
Boxing	3	–	3
Canoeing	8	0	8
Cycling	11	3	14
Diving	0	1	1
Equestrian	5	1	6
Fencing	1	0	1
Field hockey	16	15	31
Judo	2	2	4
Rowing	10	2	12
Sailing	13	4	17
Shooting	2	1	3
Swimming	8	3	11
Table tennis	2	1	3
Wrestling	2	–	2
Total	92	42	134

Archery

See main article: article and Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics. New Zealand sent one archer to Barcelona. She did not advance to the elimination rounds.

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Marguerite Buist	Women's marathon
Derek Froude	Men's marathon	2:19.37	35
Robbie Johnston	Men's 5000 m	13:57.87	9	did not advance
Anne Judkins	Women's 10 km walk	45:28	9
Lorraine Moller	Women's marathon	2:33.59
Lesley Morton	Women's 10,000 m	33:51.06	17	did not advance
Cameron Taylor	Men's 200 m	20.91	2 Q	20.83	5	did not advance
Rex Wilson	Men's marathon	2:15.51	16

Field

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Paul Gibbons	Men's pole vault			did not advance
Gavin Lovegrove	Men's javelin throw	81.04 m	4	77.08 m	9
Kirsten Smith	Women's javelin throw	59.34 m	17	did not advance

Combined

Badminton

See main article: article and Badminton at the 1992 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
Dean Galt	Men's singles	L 1–15 3–15	did not advance					=33
Kerrin Harrison	Men's singles	L 3–15 10–15	did not advance					=33
Rhona Robertson	Women's singles	W 12–10 12–9	L 9–12 11–2 9–12	did not advance				=17
Dean Galt Kerrin Harrison	Men's doubles		L 0–15 2–15	did not advance				=17
Tammy Jenkins Rhona Robertson	Women's doubles		L 4–15 2–15	did not advance				=17

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Trevor Shailer	Men's light welterweight	L 0 – 7	did not advance				=17
Sililo Figota	Men's light welterweight	L 2 – 16	did not advance				=17
David Tua	Men's heavyweight		W	W	L 7 – 12	Did not advance

Canoeing

See main article: article and Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	John MacDonald	Men's K-1 500 m	1:44.37	5 R	1:43.24	2 Q	1:43.41	6	did not advance
Men's K-1 1000 m	3:43.17	3 R	3:35.07	3 Q	3:38.95	6	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Men's K-2 500 m	1:36.43	5 R	1:32.28	4 q	1:31.02	6	did not advance
Men's K-2 1000 m	3:18.47	2 Q	3:19.29	5 q	3:26.84	8
Richard Boyle Finn O'Connor Stephen Richards Mark Scheib	Men's K-4 1000 m	3:03.58	6 Q	3:00.66	8	did not advance

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Fourteen cyclists, eleven men and three women, represented New Zealand in 1992. Gary Anderson won a bronze medal in the individual pursuit.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Tom Bamford	align=left	Men's individual road race	4:36:31	73
Joann Burke	align=left	Women's individual road race	2:05:03	30
Brian Fowler	align=left	Men's individual road race	4:35:56	59
Graeme Miller	align=left	Men's individual road race	4:35:56	51
Rosalind Reekie	align=left	Women's individual road race	2:23:52	49
Brian Fowler Paul Leitch Graeme Miller Chris Nicholson	align=left	Men's team time trial	2:08:10	10

Track

Men's 1 km time trial

Men's points race

Men's sprint

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time
Gary Anderson	Men's individual pursuit	4:32.253	4 Q	W 4:27.954	L 4:31.061	Did not advance
Jacqui Nelson	Women's individual pursuit	3:51.259	10	did not advance
Gary Anderson Nigel Donnelly Carlos Marryatt Stuart Williams Glenn McLeay	Men's team pursuit	4:21.145	7 Q	L	did not advance

Diving

See main article: article and Diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Equestrian

See main article: article and Equestrian at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Eventing

Rider	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping		Overall
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Vicky Latta	Chief	Individual	58.00	=19	24.40	6	5.00	=9	87.80	4
Andrew Nicholson	Spinning Rhombus	Individual	61.20	=27	9.20	3	45.00	62	115.40	16
Blyth Tait	Messiah	Individual	78.80	70	8.80	2	0.00	=1	87.60
Mark Todd	Welton Greylag	Individual	47.40	5
Vicky Latta Andrew Nicholson Blyth Tait Mark Todd	As above	Team	166.60	4	42.80	1	50.00	=13	290.80

Jumping

Individual

Athlete	Horse	Qualifying					Final			Rank
		Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total points	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total faults
Bruce Goodin	Reservation	22.50	29.00	45.00	96.50	59	did not advance
Mark Todd	Double Take	70.50	72.50	–	143.00	=37 Q	20.00	did not advance
Harvey Wilson	Mayday	36.00	45.50	48.00	129.50	48	did not advance

Team

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics. One male fencer represented New Zealand in 1992.

Men's individual épée

Field hockey

See main article: article and Field hockey at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (Pool B)

• New Zealand – Spain 0–3

• New Zealand – Pakistan 0–1

• New Zealand – The Netherlands 3–4

• New Zealand – Malaysia 2–3

• New Zealand – Unified Team 2–1
• Classification matches

• 5th–8th place: New Zealand – Great Britain 2–3

• 7th–8th place: New Zealand – India 2–3 → 8th place
• Team roster

• (1.) Peter Daji (captain)

• (2.) Brett Leaver

• (3.) David Grundy

• (4.) Scott Hobson

• (5.) Grant McLeod

• (6.) Peter Miskimmin

• (7.) Paresh Patel

• (8.) David Penfold

• (9.) John Radovonich

• (10.) Craig Russ

• (11.) Greg Russ

• (12.) Umesh Parag

• (13.) Jamie Smith

• (14.) Anthony Thornton

• (15.) Scott Anderson (gk)

• (16.) Ian Woodley (gk)

Women's team competition

• Preliminary round (Pool B)

• New Zealand – South Korea 0–6

• New Zealand – The Netherlands 0–2

• New Zealand – Great Britain 2–3
• Classification matches

• 5th–8th place: New Zealand – Australia 1–5

• 7th–8th place: New Zealand – Canada 0–2 → 8th place
• Team roster

• (1.) Elaine Jensen (gk)

• (2.) Helen Shearer (gk)

• (3.) Mary Clinton (captain)

• (4.) Tina Bell-Kake

• (5.) Christine Arthur

• (6.) Shane Collins

• (7.) Sapphire Cooper

• (8.) Kylie Foy

• (9.) Sue Duggan

• (10.) Susan Furmage

• (11.) Trudy Kilkolly

• (12.) Anna Lawrence

• (13.) Kieren O'Grady

• (14.) Mandy Smith

• (15.) Robyn Toomey

• (16.) Kate Trolove

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Elimination pool				Repechage pool			Final	Rank
		Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result
align=left	Steve Corkin	align=left	Men's lightweight		L	did not advance		L	did not advance			17
align=left	Donna Hilton	align=left	Women's extra lightweight		L	did not advance		L	did not advance			=13
align=left	Nicola Morris	align=left	Women's half middleweight		L	did not advance		L	did not advance			=13
align=left	Graeme Spinks	align=left	Men's half middleweight	W	L	did not advance						=22

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

See also: List of New Zealand rowers at the Summer Olympics. New Zealand qualified four boats for the 1992 Summer Olympics: men's single sculls, men's coxless four, men's coxed four, and women's double sculls.^[4]

Men

Women

Sailing

See main article: article and Sailing at the 1992 Summer Olympics. New Zealand had 17 competitors in Barcelona; 13 men and 4 women.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Race										Net points	Matchracing									Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		1	2	3	4	5	Wins	Rank	Semifinal	Final
Jenny Armstrong	Women's Europe	17.0	10.0	3.0	14.0	26.0	18.0	3.0	colspan=3	65.0	colspan=9	4
Jon Bilger Craig Greenwood (helm)	Men's 470	24.0	15.0	5.7	16.0	5.7	44.0	14.0	colspan=3	80.4	colspan=9	7
Russell Coutts (helm) Simon Daubney Graham Fleury	Soling	17.0	15.0	18.0	3.0	18.0	11.7	colspan=4	64.7	did not advance									8
Don Cowie Rod Davis (helm)	Star	8.0	5.7	10.0	18.0	11.7	13.0	10.0	colspan=3	58.4	colspan=9
Leslie Egnot (helm) Jan Shearer	Women's 470	24.0	10.0	0.0	15.0	0.0	11.7	0.0	colspan=3	36.7	colspan=9
Brian Jones Rex Sellers (helm)	Tornado	19.0	18.0	22.0	0.0	11.7	3.0	0.0	colspan=3	51.7	colspan=9	4
Murray Jones (helm) Greg Knowles	Flying Dutchman	25.0	25.0	18.0	3.0	18.0	13.0	0.0	colspan=3	77.0	colspan=9	4
Barbara Kendall	Women's Lechner A-390	0.0	16.0	5.7	3.0	0.0	3.0	11.7	13.0	5.7	5.7	47.8	colspan=9
Bruce Kendall	Men's Lechner A-390	18.0	24.0	51.0	5.7	16.0	0.0	0.0	19.0	20.0	3.0	107.7	colspan=9	4
Craig Monk	Men's Finn	29.0	17.0	0.0	13.0	23.0	11.7	0.0	colspan=3	64.7	colspan=9

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualification rounds								Final round	Total	Rank
		Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Rank
Jocelyn Lees	Women's 10 m air pistol	92	92	94	91	colspan=2	369	=42	did not advance		=42
Stephen Petterson	Men's 50 m rifle prone	98	100	100	99	95	97	589	42	did not advance		42
align=left rowspan=2	Greg Yelavich	Men's 50 m pistol	89	92	91	84	92	95	543	=37	did not advance		=37
Men's 10 m air pistol	97	94	96	96	95	97	575	=22	did not advance		=22

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left	Trent Bray	align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:52.49	26	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Guy Callaghan	align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	55.49	28	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:02.12	27	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Toni Jeffs	align=left	Women's 50 m freestyle	26.90	27	did not advance
align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	58.80	29	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Phillippa Langrell	align=left	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:14.00 NR	9 QB	4:12.96 NR	9
align=left	Women's 800 m freestyle	8:38.43 NR	5 Q	8:35.57 NR	4
align=left	Women's 400 m individual medley	4:53.62 NR	17	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Danyon Loader	align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	3:50.05 NR	5 Q	3:49.97 NR	8
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	1:58.15	2 Q	1:57.93
align=left rowspan=3	Simon Percy	align=left	Men's 100 m backstroke	57.96	33	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m backstroke	2:05.53	28	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:06.76	28	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Nicholas Sanders	align=left	Men's 50 m freestyle	23.79	34	did not advance
align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	51.77	36	did not advance
align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	55.44	25	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Anna Simcic	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:03.12	11 QB	1:03.30	11
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:12.99	6 Q	2:11.99 NR	5
align=left rowspan=2	John Steel	align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	50.59	=14 QB	50.69	13
align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:50.56	18 QB	1:51.12	16
align=left	Richard Tapper	align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	3:59.71	29	did not advance
align=left	Mark Weldon	align=left	Men's 50 m freestyle	23.87	37	did not advance
align=left	John Steel Nicholas Sanders Trent Bray Mark Weldon	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	3:23.09 NR	9	did not advance
align=left	Trent Bray Richard Tapper John Steel Danyon Loader	align=left	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	7:26.36	11	did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Pool stage						Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	W	L	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Hagen Bower	Men's singles	L 0–2	L 0–2	L 0–2	0	3	4	did not advance				=49
Peter Jackson	Men's singles	L 0–2	L 0–2	W 2–0	1	2	3	did not advance				=33
Chunli Li	Women's singles	W 2–0	W 2–0	L 0–2	2	1	2	did not advance				=17
Hagen Bower Peter Jackson	Men's doubles	L 0–2	L 0–2	L 0–2	0	3	4		did not advance			=25

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Final round	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
align=left	Shane Stannett	align=left	Men's freestyle flyweight	L 0–12	L 0–1	Eliminated
align=left	Grant Parker	align=left	Men's freestyle light heavyweight	L 0–3	L 0–15	Eliminated

Officials

• Chef de Mission – Ralph Roberts^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043827/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1992/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 26 December 2011 . sports-reference.com.
2. Web site: Ralph Roberts . . 5 May 2017.
3. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/NZL/editions/23 New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics
4. Web site: New Zealand Rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417164429/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1996/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . . 9 September 2016.
5. New Zealand Sailing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417060426/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1992/SAI/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 8 May 2017 .
6. Web site: Remembering Ralph Roberts . 19 March 2023 . New Zealand Olympic Committee . 6 February 2024.

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