New Zealand at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	NZL
Nocname:	New Zealand Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1996
Location:	Atlanta, USA
Competitors:	97
Flagbearer:	Barbara Kendall
Rank:	26
Gold:	3
Silver:	2
Bronze:	1
Officials:	60
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1920
See also:	(1908 · 1912)

New Zealand competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 97 athletes and 60 officials. Former Olympic swimmer Dave Gerrard was the team's chef de mission.^[1]

Medal tables

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				20 July
				23 July
				26 July
				26 July
				2 August
				24 July

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
	2	0	0	2
	1	1	1	3
	0	1	0	1
Total	3	2	1	6

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

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

New Zealand sent only one archer to Atlanta. He was defeated in the first round.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Craig Barrett	Men's 50 km walk	4:15:15	33
Nyla Carroll	Women's 10,000 m	32:50.64	10	did not advance
Matthew Coad	Men's 200 m	21.25	5	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Chris Donaldson	Men's 100 m	10.39	6	did not advance
Men's 200 m	20.96	6	did not advance
Anne Hare	Women's 5000 m	15:22.31	6 Q	15:29.11	13
Martin Johns	Men's 1500 m	3:44.91	11	did not advance
Robbie Johnston	Men's 10,000 m	28:40.60	12	did not advance
Mark Keddell	Men's 200 m	20.93	4	did not advance
Lorraine Moller	Women's marathon	2:42:21	46
Scott Nelson	Men's 20 km walk	1:25:50	32
Gus Nketia	Men's 100 m	10.34	4 q	10.35	8	did not advance
Sean Wade	Men's marathon	2:30:35	83
Jonathan Wyatt	Men's 5000 m	13:52.56	8 Q	13:47.81	10	did not advance

Field

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Chantal Brunner	Women's long jump	6.62	10 q	6.49	10
Beatrice Faumuina	Women's discus throw	58.40	23	did not advance
Gavin Lovegrove	Men's javelin throw	77.12	23	did not advance

Combined

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

New Zealand sent two women to compete in two competitions of the Olympic Badminton tournament.^[2]

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
Rhona Robertson	Women's singles		L 2–11 2–11	did not advance				=17
Tammy Jenkins Rhona Robertson	Women's doubles		W 15–7 15–4	L 9–15 2–15	did not advance			=9

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

New Zealand sent one man to compete in one canoeing event.^[3]

Slalom

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2		align=left	Women's individual road race	2:37:06	33
align=left	Women's individual time trial	41:45	22
Brian Fowler	align=left	Men's individual road race
Scott Guyton	align=left	Men's individual road race
Glen Mitchell	align=left	Men's individual road race
align=left rowspan=2		align=left	Women's individual road race
align=left	Women's individual time trial	40:58	20
	align=left	Women's individual road race	2:37:06	31
Rosalind Reekie	align=left	Women's individual road race	2:23:52	49
Ric Reid	align=left	Men's individual road race	4:56:47	66

Track

1 km time trial

Points race

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps behind	Rank
Glenn McLeay	Men's points race	8	1	9
Jacqui Nelson	Women's points race	8	0	8

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Round 1	Round 1 repechage	Round 2	Round 2 repechage	Eighth finals	Eighth final repechage	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Darren McKenzie-Potter	Men's sprint	11.211	23 Q	L R	L	did not advance
Donna Wynd	Women's sprint	11.961	12 Q	L R	3	did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Gary Anderson	Men's individual pursuit	4:36.918	13	did not advance			13
Sarah Ulmer	Women's individual pursuit	3:43.176	6 Q	L 3:45.761	did not advance		7
Brendon Cameron Tim Carswell Julian Dean Greg Henderson	Men's team pursuit	4:14.990	8 Q	L 4:08.965	did not advance		8

Mountain bike

Mountain biking was introduced as an Olympic discipline for the 1996 Games. The two strongest women, Kathy Lynch and Mary Grigson, gained New Zealand two qualifying positions for the Olympics; no New Zealand men qualified. Grigson accepted an offer to race for Australia—she competed for them at the Olympics in 1996 and 2000^[4] —and left New Zealand, so the New Zealand Mountain Bike Association decided to nominate just one competitor for the New Zealand Olympic team.^[5]

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Eventing

New Zealand entered three competitors in the mixed individual eventing event; two men and one woman.^[6] New Zealand also competed in team eventing.

Rider	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping		Overall
Rider	Horse	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sally Clark	Squirrel Hill	Individual	51.2	14	9.20	2	0.00	=1	60.40
Andrew Nicholson	Buckley Province	Individual	48.4	11			Retired
Blyth Tait	Ready Teddy	Individual	51.60	=15	5.20	1	0.00	=1	56.80
Vaughn Jefferis Vicky Latta Andrew Nicholson Blyth Tait	Bounce Broadcast News Jägermeister II Chesterfield	Team	135.60	3	120.20	3	12.75	1	268.55

Jumping

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Elimination pool				Repechage pool			Final /	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Rank
align=left	Steve Corkin	align=left	Men's lightweight	W	W	L	Did not advance		L	did not advance	=9
align=left	Daniel Gowing	align=left	Men's lightweight	W	L	did not advance		W	L	did not advance	=9

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

See also: List of New Zealand rowers at the Summer Olympics. New Zealand qualified five boats for the 1996 Summer Olympics: men's single sculls,^[7] men's pair,^[8] men's coxless four,^[9] men's lightweight double sculls, and women's double sculls.^[10]

Men

Women

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Aaron McIntosh – Men's Mistral One Design
Barbara Kendall – Women's Mistral One Design – silver medal
Craig Monk – Finn
Sharon Ferris – Europe
Rohan Cooke & Andrew Stone – Men's 470
Leslie Egnot & Jan Shearer – Women's 470
Hamish Pepper – Laser
Rod Davis & Don Cowie – Star
Rex Sellers & Brian Jones – Tornado
Kelvin Harrap & Sean Clarkson & Jamie Gale – Soling

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualification rounds								Final round	Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Rank	Final round	Total	Rank
Stephen Petterson	Men's 50 m rifle prone	99	98	98	100	97	99	591	=36	did not advance		=36
Brant Woodward	Men's trap	24	25	22	24	21		116	=42	did not advance		=42

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Dionne Bainbridge	align=left	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:02.69 NR	13 QB	2:03.20	15
align=left	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:16.47	13 QB	4:16.79	14
align=left rowspan=2	Trent Bray	align=left	Men's 100 m freestyle	51.18	31	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:51.59	=20	did not advance
align=left	Scott Cameron	align=left	Men's 1500 m freestyle	15:56.60	27	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Alison Fitch	align=left	Women's 50 m freestyle	26.74	35	did not advance
align=left	Women's 100 m freestyle	57.71	29	did not advance
align=left	Paul Kent	align=left	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:02.76	15 QB	1:03.05	14
align=left rowspan=2	Lydia Lipscombe	align=left	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:03.61	13 QB	1:03.30	11
align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:19.54	24	did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Danyon Loader	align=left	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:48.48	2 Q	1:47.63 NR
align=left	Men's 400 m freestyle	3:51.54	4 Q	3:47.97 NR
align=left	Men's 100 m butterfly	55.39	34	did not advance
align=left	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:00.81	19	did not advance
align=left	Anna Simcic	align=left	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:13.74	8 Q	2:14.04	6
align=left	Nicholas Tongue	align=left	Men's 50 m freestyle	23.73	=40	did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Anna Wilson	align=left	Women's 100 m breaststroke	1:12.93	31	did not advance
align=left	Women's 200 m individual medley	2:19.97	25	did not advance
align=left	Women's 400 m individual medley	4:55.72	24	did not advance
align=left	Jonathan Winter	align=left	Men's 100 m backstroke	56.92	23	did not advance
align=left	John Steel Nicholas Tongue Danyon Loader Trent Bray	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:21.65	9	did not advance
align=left	Trent Bray Murray Burdan Scott Cameron Danyon Loader	align=left	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:24.35 NR	9	did not advance
align=left	Jonathan Winter Paul Kent Danyon Loader Trent Bray	align=left	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	3:45.80	14	did not advance
align=left	Sarah Catherwood Alison Fitch Anna Wilson Dionne Bainbridge	align=left	Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:14.98	11	did not advance
align=left	Lydia Lipscombe Anna Wilson Anna Simcic Alison Fitch	align=left	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	4:19.83	19	did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Beach volleyball

References

Book: The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results . (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. . Peachtree Publishers . Atlanta . 1997 . 1-56145-150-9 . PDF . 13 February 2008.
Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 13 February 2008.
sports-reference

Notes and References

Web site: David Gerrard . . 30 April 2017.
New Zealand Badminton at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417164430/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1996/BDM/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 7 May 2017 .
New Zealand Canoeing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417164429/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1996/CAN/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 7 May 2017 .
Mary Grigson . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025825/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/mary-grigson-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 7 May 2017 .
Book: The Muddy Olympians . 2012 . Simon . Jonathan . Kennett . Kennett . 978-0-9864641-4-0 . 34–36.
New Zealand Equestrianism at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417164421/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1996/EQU/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 7 May 2017 .
Web site: (M1x) Men's Single Sculls – Final . . 9 September 2016.
Web site: (M2-) Men's Pair – Final . . 9 September 2016.
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.
Web site: (W2x) Women's Double Sculls – Final . . 9 September 2016.