New Zealand competed at the
2024 Summer Olympics
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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
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Antwerp
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2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo, and breaking their previous Gold medal total of 8 from the
1984 Summer Olympics
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Los Angeles.
Medallists
The following New Zealand competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medallists' names are bolded.
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Officials
Nigel Avery
Nigel Seton Avery (born 31 August 1967 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand former weightlifter.
Sporting career
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, he won a bronze medal in the 105+ kg snatch and the 105+ kg combined total ...
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 pair of artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet as the highest-ranked Oceanian nation eligible for qualification at the
2023 FINA World Championships in
Fukuoka, Japan.
Athletics
New Zealand track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):
Track & road events
Field events
Men
Women
Canoeing
Slalom
New Zealand entered four boats into the slalom competition, for the Games through the
2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
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London, Great Britain, and 2024 Oceania Championships in
Penrith, Australia.
Kayak cross
Sprint
New Zealand canoeists qualified boats in each of the following distances for the Games through the
2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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Medal summary Medal table
Men
Non-Olympic classes Canoe
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Duisburg,
Germany; and 2024 Oceania Canoe Sprint Qualifier in
Penrith, Australia.
Men
Women
Cycling
Road
New Zealand entered four road cyclists (two male and two female) into the games. New Zealand secured those quota through the UCI Nation Ranking.
Track
New Zealand entered a full squad of men's team pursuit, madison, omnium, sprint, keirin; and women's track events, following the release of the final UCI Olympic rankings.
Sprint
Pursuit
Keirin
Omnium
Madison
Mountain biking
New Zealand mountain bikers secured a men's and women's quota place each in the Olympic cross-country race by virtue of their top two results at the
2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in
Glasgow, Great Britain; and through the release of the final Olympic mountain biking rankings.
Sam Gaze
Samuel William Gaze (born 12 December 1995) is a New Zealand cross-country and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He won the under-23 Cross-Country at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships and the 2017 UCI Mo ...
was selected for the men's quota.
Sammie Maxwell
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took a case with the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand against
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about her non-selection and won her case on 15 July 2024, with the tribunal securing her selection.
BMX
Race
New Zealand qualified a men's quota in BMX racing through the allocations of final Olympic BMX ranking and a women's quota via the
2024 UCI BMX World Championships.
Diving
New Zealand entered one diver,
Elizabeth Roussel
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, into the Olympic competition.
Equestrian
New Zealand entered a full squad of equestrian riders to the team eventing competition through a top-seven finish at the 2022 FEI Eventing World Championships in
Pratoni del Vivaro,
Italy. New Zealand also entered two riders, each in the dressage and jumping individual events, through the establishments of final olympics ranking for Group G (South East Asia, Oceania).
Dressage
Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final based on position in group; q = Qualified for the final based on overall position
Eventing
Field hockey
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Men's tournament
The
New Zealand men's national field hockey team qualified for the Olympics after finishing third at the
2024 FIH Olympic Qualifiers in
Muscat, Oman.
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Football
;Summary
Men's tournament
The
New Zealand men's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the
2023 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
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Auckland.
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Women's tournament
The
New Zealand women's football team
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qualified for the Olympics by winning the
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Apia, Samoa.
Team roster
Group play
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Golf
New Zealand entered three golfers into the Olympic tournament. They qualified directly for the games in the men's and women's individual competitions, based on their respective world ranking performances, on the IGF World Rankings.
Gymnastics
Artistic
New Zealand entered one artistic gymnast into the games.
Georgia-Rose Brown
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directly secured a quota spot by being one of two highest-ranked eligible athlete in the women's uneven bars, through the final accumulations of the
2024 Apparatus World Cup Series rankings. Although Isabella Brett qualified for the games through the 2024 Oceanian Championships in
Auckland, Gymnastics New Zealand declined to put forward Brett's nomination to the New Zealand Olympic Committee for the Olympic Games.
Trampoline
New Zealand entered two gymnasts (one male and one female) into the 2024 Summer Olympics trampoline competition through the World Cup Series ranking.
Judo
New Zealand qualified two judokas,
Moira de Villiers
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(women's half-heavyweight, 78 kg) and
Sydnee Andrews
Sydnee Andrews (born 12 December 2002) is a New Zealand judoka. She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in women's +78 kg.
Biography
Andrews was born and raised in Gisborne, New Zealand and started judo at the age of 5. In 202 ...
(women's heavyweight , +78 kg), based on the IJF World Ranking List and Olympic point rankings.
Rowing
New Zealand rowers qualified boats in each of the following classes through the
2023 World Rowing Championships
The 2023 World Rowing Championships were held from 3 to 10 September 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Medal summary Medal table
Non-Olympic/Paralympic classes
Men
Women
Pararowing
References
External links
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Men
Women
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Rugby sevens
Summary
Men's tournament
The
New Zealand national rugby sevens team qualified for the Olympics by securing a top-four placement in the
2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series
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, registering its fourth victory in the Singapore leg.
Team roster
Group stage
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Quarter-final
5–8th place classification semi-final
Fifth place match
Women's tournament
The
New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team qualified for the Olympics by securing a top-four placement in the
2022–23 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
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, registering its fourth consecutive victory in the Vancouver leg.
Team roster
Group stage
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Quarterfinal
Semifinal
Gold medal match
Sailing
New Zealand sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the
2023 Sailing World Championships in
The Hague, Netherlands, and 2023 Sail Sydney in
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, Australia.
Elimination events
Medal race events
Shooting
New Zealand shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2022, 2023, and 2024 European Championships,
2023 European Games
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, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Sport climbing
For the first time in history, New Zealand qualified two climbers for Paris.
Julian David
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Career
After graduating from secondary school, David attended the Bayerische Theaterakademie Aug ...
and
Sarah Tetzlaff qualified directly for the women's and men's speed events, by winning the gold medal at the 2023 Oceania Olympic Qualifier in
Melbourne, Australia.
Speed
Surfing
New Zealand surfers confirmed two shortboard quota places (one in each gender) for Tahiti. Tokyo 2020 Olympian
Billy Stairmand
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Early life
Stairmand was born and raised in Raglan, a beachside tow ...
and rookie Saffi Vette topped the list of eligible surfers from Oceania to secure the lone available berth in their respective shortboard races at the
2023 ISA World Surfing Games
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Medal summary
Medallists
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in
Surf City, El Salvador.
Qualification legend: R3 – Qualifies to elimination rounds; R2 – Qualifies to repechage round
Swimming
Swimmers from New Zealand achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):
Men
Women
Tennis
New Zealand entered a team in the
women's doubles consisting of
Erin Routliffe and
Lulu Sun. Sun was also an alternate in the
women's singles, losing in the first round.
Triathlon
New Zealand confirmed four quota places (two per gender) in the triathlon events for Paris, following the release of final mixed relay Olympics qualification ranking.
Individual
Relay
Weightlifting
New Zealand entered one weightlifter into the Olympic competition.
David Liti (men's +102 kg) secured one available continental allocation spot in his weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings.
Wrestling
For the first time since
2016
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, New Zealand qualified one wrestler for Paris 2024.
Tayla Ford qualified for the games following the triumph of advancing to the final round at
2024 African & Oceania Olympic Qualification Tournament in
Alexandria, Egypt.
See also
*
New Zealand at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
References
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