New Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games was represented by a team of 69 competitors and 13 officials, including 18 athletes, 15 rowers, eight swimmers and divers, and seven each of boxers, cyclists and wrestlers.
Selection of the team for the
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New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association. New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was
Jim Leckie. The New Zealand team finished fifth on the medal table, winning a total of 25 medals, five of which were gold.
New Zealand has competed in every games, starting with the
British Empire Games
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Medal tables
Competitors
The following table lists the number of New Zealand competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
Athletics
Track
Field
Boxing
Cycling
Road
;Men's road race
Track
;Men's 1000 m sprint
;Men's 1 km time trial
;Men's 10 miles track race
Diving
Lawn bowls
Rowing
Percival Stowers and Cliff Johnson accompanied the team as emergencies, but did not compete.
Swimming
Wrestling
Officials
* Team manager – H. McCormick
* Deputy team manager – Dolph Kitto
* Athletics coach – B. R. McKernan
* Boxing manager – F. Hughes
* Cycling manager – H. L. Grant
* Lawn bowls
** Manager – A. Whitten
** Assistant manager – E. Petty
* Rowing
** Manager – Allen Hale
** Coach – Herbert Ayers
* Swimming manager – Edward Clarke Isaacs
* Wrestling
** Manager – J. Creeke
** Coach – A. Craig
* Chaperone – E. G. Sutherland
See also
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New Zealand Olympic Committee
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New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games
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New Zealand at the 1936 Summer Olympics
References
* All team lists and results fro
NZOC
External links
NZOC website on the 1938 gamesCommonwealth Games Federation websiteAthletes in the 1966 ''Encyclopaedia of New Zealand'' has a paragraph on these Games
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British Empire Games
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Nations at the 1938 British Empire Games