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New Zealand At The 2024 Summer Olympics
New Zealand competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the country's twenty-fifth appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and competed at every Games since. It is New Zealand's most successful Olympic Games, matching their previously highest medal total of 20 from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and breaking their previous Gold medal total of 8 from the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Medallists The following New Zealand competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medallists' names are bolded. , style="text-align:left;width:78%;vertical-align:top", , style="text-align:left;width:22%;vertical-align:top", Officials Nigel Avery is the '' chef de mission'' for New Zealand at the Games. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Artistic swimming New Zealand fielded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Olympic Committee
The New Zealand Olympic Committee (before 1994, The ''New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association'') is both the National Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Association in New Zealand responsible for selecting athletes to represent New Zealand in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. While a founder member of the International Olympic Committee, New Zealand did not send its own team to compete until the Games of the VI Olympiad (Antwerp 1920), though at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics New Zealand and Australia competed as "Australasia". New Zealand has sent a team to every Summer Olympic Games since 1920, though only a token team of four went to the 1980 Summer Olympics at Moscow due to the boycott. New Zealand first competed at the Winter Olympics in 1952, but did not compete in the 1956 or 1964 Winter Olympics. New Zealand has sent a team to every Commonwealth Games since the first in 1930, which was held in Canada and then ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games, the first being in 1932. California was the home state of the incumbent U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who officially opened the Games. These were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch. The 1984 Games were boycotted by a total of fourteen Eastern Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union and East Germany, in response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Romania and Yugoslavia were the only Socialist European states that opted to attend the Games. Albania, Iran and Libya also chose to boycott the Games for unrelated reasons. Despite the field being depleted in certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia Woodman
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe (née Woodman; born 12 July 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and is a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team and New Zealand Women's National Rugby Union team. Woodman was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 2022, Woodman became the first woman to score 200 tries in the Sevens Series. Biography Netball Woodman initially played netball for the Northern Mystics before switching to rugby union in 2012. Rugby career Woodman first became involved in rugby union through New Zealand's Go4Gold grassroots initiative in 2012. The nationwide campaign was established by the New Zealand Rugby Union, and aimed to identify future athletes from other sports to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where rugby sevens was making its debut. Woodman was selected to join the programme alongside Northern Mystics net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Waaka
Stacey Fluhler (née Waaka; born 3 November 1998) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and is a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team and New Zealand Women's National Rugby Union team. Fluhler was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She was also a member of the New Zealand fifteen-a-side team which won the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup. Early life Fluhler was born Stacey Jamie Aroha Kirsten Waaka on 3 November 1995 in Papakura, New Zealand to Raewyn (née Allan) and Simon Waaka. She has four older siblings, Shannon, Bronson and Beaudein and was the only one born in New Zealand as her parents moved the family moved back and forth between Australia and Auckland several times. When she was one years old the family moved back to Australia, and lived in Melbourne for eight years. One Christmas, she and her b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Fitzpatrick
Theresa Matauaina Fitzpatrick (born 25 February 1995) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She was a member of the Black Ferns champion 2017 and 2021 Rugby World Cup squads. She has also represented New Zealand in rugby sevens; she won gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and Rugby World Cup Sevens. She played for the Blues Women in the 2022 Super Rugby Aupiki season. Rugby career 2016 Fitzpatrick represents New Zealand in rugby sevens. She made her sevens debut at the 2016 USA Women's Sevens. She was named in the sevens squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics. 2017–2021 Fitzpatrick was named in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad and was part of the winning team of the 2019 Women's Rugby Super Series. On 3 November 2021, She was named in the Blues squad for the inaugural Super Rugby Aupiki competition. 2022 Fitzpatrick was named in the Blues starting line up for their first game against Matatū, they won 21–10. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Saili
Alena Saili (born 13 December 1998) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. Saili joined the Black Ferns Sevens in 2017. She won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. Saili was named in the Black Ferns Sevens squad for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She won a bronze medal at the event. She was part of the Black Ferns sevens team that won a silver medal at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. Saili expanded her international career playing for Premier Rugby Sevens in the United States of America, signing with the Texas Team during the 2023 season. Rugby Career 2023 Premier Rugby Sevens In May of 2023, Saili announced she was going to head over to the United States of America to play in Premier Rugby Sevens. Saili signed with the Texas Team, playing alongside Black Ferns teammate, Tysha Ikenasiohttps://www.prsevens.com/news/eastern-conference-kickoff-preview] Saili ended the year t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risi Pouri-Lane
Risealeaana "Risi" Pouri-Lane (born 28 May 2000) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She captained the 2018 Youth Olympics squad that won gold in Buenos Aires. She also won gold medals with the Black Ferns sevens team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics. Rugby career 2018 Pouri-Lane captained the New Zealand sevens team as they won gold at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. She then joined the Black Ferns Sevens team and won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. 2021–2022 Pouri-Lane won a gold medal with the Black Ferns Sevens at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She was named in the Black Ferns Sevens squad for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She won a bronze medal at the event. She later won a silver medal at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been selected as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Rugby Sevens team for the Paris Olympics. Personal life Pouri- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahina Paul
Mahina Paul (born 19 April 2001) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. Rugby career Paul has represented New Zealand in touch rugby and at the Youth Olympic Games for rugby sevens in 2018. Paul made her Black Ferns Sevens international debut at the South Africa Sevens in Cape Town in 2019. She was one of three players who were handed professional contracts earlier that year. She later featured at the 2020 New Zealand Sevens in Hamilton. Paul was named as a travelling reserve for the Black Ferns Sevens squad to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West .... On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been selected as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Rugby Sevens team for the Paris Olympics. References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manaia Nuku
Manaia Nuku (born 3 September 2002) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics as a member of the Black Ferns sevens team. Rugby Career Nuku attended Hamilton Girls' High School and made her debut for Waikato in the Farah Palmer Cup in 2020. She was given a full-time rugby sevens contract with the Black Ferns Sevens in 2021. Nuku played for the Black Ferns Pango team at the 2022 Oceania Sevens at Pukekohe. She was named as a non-travelling reserve for the Black Ferns Sevens squad for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Nuku expanded her international playing career in 2023 when she signed with the New York Locals of Premier Rugby Sevens. 2023 Premier Rugby Sevens In May of 2023, Nuku announced that she was going to play in the United States of America for Premier Rugby Sevens. Nuku signed with the New York Locals, playing alongside Black Ferns teammates Stacey Waaka and Tenika Willison. Nuku fit in with the Locals ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorja Miller
Jorja Miller (born 8 February 2004) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and is a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team. Miller was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team that won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Early life Miller was born on 8 February 2004 in Timaru to Tracey and Craig Miller. She has two older brothers, Corin and Deon. Her grandfather and father played for Timaru based Harlequins seniors rugby team (her father playing more than 200 games) while her mother was a member of the South Canterbury women's team. Following in the footsteps of her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother Miller at the age of four began highland dancing. She eventually went on to become an age group national champion in her favourite dance, Sailor’s Hornpipe. In 2021 she participated in the under 18 national championships. Miller also played basketball for a period. Miller initially atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyla King
Tyla King (; born 1 July 1994) is a New Zealand international rugby union player, professional rugby league player and Olympian. She played touch rugby, tag rugby and both sevens and fifteen-a-side rugby union as a teenager before in 2012 at the age of 18 she made her debut as a professional rugby sevens player when she was selected for the New Zealand sevens team. During her time with the team, which she captained on a number of occasions, they won the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2022–23. With them she won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and back-to-back gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. In May 2023 she was released from her contract with New Zealand Rugby to play rugby league for the Australian club St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership. This led to her being selected in October 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Hirini
Sarah Hirini (; born 9 December 1992) is a New Zealand women's rugby union player and two-time Olympic medalist. She plays for the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team, and captained the Manawatu Sevens side that took out the 2013 National Women's Sevens title in Queenstown. She was named in the squad for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. Early life Hirini was born on 9 December 1992 to Ronnie and Alan Goss. Her sister Rachael Rakatau also plays rugby and played for the Manawatū Cyclones in the Farah Palmer Cup championship in 2021 Her father Alan was a champion shearer who won a Golden Shears title in the 1985 intermediate shearing final. Her mother Ronnie was a master wool handler, winning 53 open finals, including the 2008 Golden Shears open title, as well as competing in the New Zealand open championships finals in Te Kuiti in 1999 and 2003, in the Golden Shears open final six times, the 2014 world championships in Ireland, and represented New Zealand in ten tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
