New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics

New Zealand at the
1992 Summer Olympics
New Zealand at the; 1992 Summer Olympics
IOC code	NZL
NOC	New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association
Website	www.olympic.org.nz
in Barcelona
Competitors	134 (92 men, 42 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Mark Todd
Medals; Ranked 28th	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 5 Total 10
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Other related appearances
	Australasia (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
Gold	Barbara Kendall	Sailing	Women's Lechner A-390	4 August
Silver	Vicky Latta Andrew Nicholson Blyth Tait Mark Todd	Equestrian	Team eventing	30 July
Silver	Danyon Loader	Swimming	Men's 200 m butterfly	30 July
Silver	Don Cowie Rod Davis	Sailing	Star	4 August
Silver	Leslie Egnot Jan Shearer	Sailing	Women's 470	4 August
Bronze	Gary Anderson	Cycling	Men's individual pursuit	29 July
Bronze	Blyth Tait	Equestrian	Individual eventing	30 July
Bronze	Lorraine Moller	Athletics	Women's marathon	1 August
Bronze	Craig Monk	Sailing	Men's Finn	4 August
Bronze	David Tua	Boxing	Men's heavyweight	8 August

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Sailing	1	2	1	4
Equestrian	0	1	1	2
Swimming	0	1	0	1
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Boxing	0	0	1	1
Cycling	0	0	1	1
Total	1	4	5	10

Medals by gender
Gender				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]

Sport	Men	Women	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

New Zealand sent one archer to Barcelona. She did not advance to the elimination rounds.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round						Round 1	Round 2	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	30 m	50 m	60 m	70 m	Total	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Faye Johnstone	Women's individual	341	295	323	302	1261	37	did not advance					37

Athletics

Track and road

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank^[i]	Result	Rank^[ii]	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Marguerite Buist	Women's marathon	—						DNF
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

^ Ranks given are within the heat
^ Ranks given are within the quarterfinal

Field

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Paul Gibbons	Men's pole vault	NM		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

Athlete	Event	100 m hurdles	High jump	Shot put	200 m	Long jump	Javelin throw	800 m	Overall points	Rank
Joanne Henry	Women's heptathlon	14.55 902 pts	NH 0 pts	Withdrew					DNF

Athlete	Event	100 m	Long jump	Shot put	High jump	400 m	110 m hurdles	Discus throw	Pole vault	Javelin throw	1500 m	Overall points	Rank
Simon Poelman	Men's decathlon	12.22 608 pts	NM 0 pts	Withdrew								DNF

Badminton

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
Dean Galt	Men's singles	Jogis (USA) L 1–15 3–15	did not advance					=33
Kerrin Harrison	Men's singles	Antropov (EUN) L 3–15 10–15	did not advance					=33
Rhona Robertson	Women's singles	Dimbour (FRA) W 12–10 12–9	Plungwech (THA) L 9–12 11–2 9–12	did not advance				=17
Dean Galt Kerrin Harrison	Men's doubles	—	Holst-Christensen / Lund (DEN) L 0–15 2–15	did not advance				=17
Tammy Jenkins Rhona Robertson	Women's doubles	—	Gil / Shim (KOR) L 4–15 2–15	did not advance				=17

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Trevor Shailer	Men's light welterweight	Szűcs (HUN) L 0 – 7	did not advance				=17
Sililo Figota	Men's light welterweight	Beyer (GER) L 2 – 16	did not advance				=17
David Tua	Men's heavyweight	Bye	Ortega (ESP) W RSC-2	Rückschloss (TCH) W RSC-3	Izonritei (NGR) L 7 – 12	Did not advance

Canoeing

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Best total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Time	Points	Total	Time	Points	Total	Best total	Rank
Donald Johnstone	Men's K-1	1:50.71	10	120.71	1:52.73	5	117.73	117.73	25

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
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
John MacDonald	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:43.17	3 R	3:35.07	3 Q	3:38.95	6	did not advance
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
Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:18.47	2 Q	Bye		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

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

Track

Men's 1 km time trial

Athlete	Time	Rank
Jon Andrews	1:05.240	7

Men's points race

Athlete	Qualifying			Final
Athlete	Points	Laps behind	Rank	Points	Laps behind	Rank
Glenn McLeay	15	0	2 Q	30	0	4

Men's sprint

Athlete	Qualifying		Round 1	Round 1 repechage heat	Round 1 repechage final	Round 2	Round 2 repechage	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Time	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jon Andrews	11.102	16	Fiedler (GER) L R	van Hameren (NED) W 11.251 Q	Furrer (SUI) W 11.701 Q	Harnett (CAN) Carpenter (USA) 2 R	Chiappa (ITA) L	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	4:32.253	4 Q	Ermenault (FRA) W 4:27.954	Lehmann (GER) 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	Germany L ovtk	did not advance

Diving

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tania Paterson	Women's 10 m platform	254.04	24	did not advance

Equestrian

Eventing

Rider	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping		Overall
Rider	Horse	Event	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	DNF		DNS		DNF
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
Athlete	Horse	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total points	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total faults	Rank
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

Athlete	Horse	Round 1		Round 2		Total	Rank
Athlete	Horse	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Total	Rank
Bruce Goodin Mark Todd Harvey Wilson	Reservation Double Take Mayday	38.25	16	28.75	11	67.00	15

Fencing

One male fencer represented New Zealand in 1992.

Men's individual épée

Athlete	Round 1 pool						Final pool				Final pool barrage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Rank
Gavin McLean	da Ponte (PAR) W 5–1	Youssef (LIB) W 5–2	Jacquet (SUI) W 5–5	Randazzo (ITA) L 0–5	Pop (ROU) L 4–5	Rivas (COL) L 2–5	Nowosielski (CAN) L 1–2	Did not advance

Field hockey

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

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
Steve Corkin	Men's lightweight	Bye	Chung (KOR) L	did not advance		Seck (SEN) L	did not advance			17
Donna Hilton	Women's extra lightweight	—	Souakri (ALG) L	did not advance		Villapol (VEN) L	did not advance			=13
Nicola Morris	Women's half middleweight	—	Gu (KOR) L	did not advance		Zhang (CHN) L	did not advance			=13
Graeme Spinks	Men's half middleweight	Haanpää (FIN) W	Varayev (EUN) L	did not advance						=22

Rowing

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

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eric Verdonk	Single sculls	6:58.35	2 R	7:02.40	1 SA/B	6:56.79	3 FA	6:57.45	4
Scott Brownlee Chris White Pat Peoples Campbell Clayton-Greene	Coxless four	6:03.10	2 SA/B	Bye		6:01.19	3 FA	6:02.13	6
Bill Coventry Guy Melville Toni Dunlop Ian Wright Carl Sheehan (cox)	Coxed four	6:32.61	5 R	6:25.32	4 FB	—		6:15.66	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Philippa Baker Brenda Lawson	Double sculls	7:20.49	2 SA/B	Bye		7:01.07	2 FA	6:56.81	4

Sailing

New Zealand had 17 competitors in Barcelona; 13 men and 4 women.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Race										Net points	Matchracing									Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Net points	1	2	3	4	5	Wins	Rank	Semifinal	Final	Final rank
Jenny Armstrong	Women's Europe	17.0	10.0	3.0	14.0	~~26.0~~	18.0	3.0	—			65.0	—									4
Jon Bilger Craig Greenwood (helm)	Men's 470	24.0	15.0	5.7	16.0	5.7	~~44.0~~	14.0	—			80.4	—									7
Russell Coutts (helm) Simon Daubney Graham Fleury	Soling	17.0	15.0	~~18.0~~	3.0	18.0	11.7	—				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	—			58.4	—
Leslie Egnot (helm) Jan Shearer	Women's 470	~~24.0~~	10.0	0.0	15.0	0.0	11.7	0.0	—			36.7	—
Brian Jones Rex Sellers (helm)	Tornado	19.0	18.0	~~22.0~~	0.0	11.7	3.0	0.0	—			51.7	—									4
Murray Jones (helm) Greg Knowles	Flying Dutchman	~~25.0~~	25.0	18.0	3.0	18.0	13.0	0.0	—			77.0	—									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	—
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	—									4
Craig Monk	Men's Finn	~~29.0~~	17.0	0.0	13.0	23.0	11.7	0.0	—			64.7	—

Shooting

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
Jocelyn Lees	Women's 10 m air pistol	92	92	94	91	—		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
Greg Yelavich	Men's 50 m pistol	89	92	91	84	92	95	543	=37	did not advance		=37
Greg Yelavich	Men's 10 m air pistol	97	94	96	96	95	97	575	=22	did not advance		=22

Swimming

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

Table tennis

Athlete	Event	Pool stage						Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	W	L	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hagen Bower	Men's singles	Gatien (FRA) L 0–2	Kalinić (IOP) L 0–2	Musa (NGR) L 0–2	0	3	4	did not advance				=49
Peter Jackson	Men's singles	Shibutani (JPN) L 0–2	Ding (AUT) L 0–2	Arado (CUB) W 2–0	1	2	3	did not advance				=33
Chunli Li	Women's singles	Hugh-Yip (USA) W 2–0	Amankwaa (GHA) W 2–0	Yu (PRK) L 0–2	2	1	2	did not advance				=17
Hagen Bower Peter Jackson	Men's doubles	France L 0–2	Poland L 0–2	Nigeria L 0–2	0	3	4	—	did not advance			=25

Wrestling

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Final round	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shane Stannett	Men's freestyle flyweight	Torkan (IRI) L 0–12	Toguzov (EUN) L 0–1	Eliminated
Grant Parker	Men's freestyle light heavyweight	Ōta (JPN) L 0–3	Campbell (USA) L 0–15	Eliminated

Officials

Chef de Mission – Ralph Roberts^[6]

References

^ "New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
^ "Ralph Roberts". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics
^ "New Zealand Rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand Sailing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
^ "Remembering Ralph Roberts". New Zealand Olympic Committee. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2024.

[4] Ranks given are within the heat

[5] Ranks given are within the quarterfinal

[sports-reference-1] "New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2011.

[2] "Ralph Roberts". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 May 2017.

[3] New Zealand at the 1992 Summer Olympics

[6] "New Zealand Rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2016.

[7] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand Sailing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

[8] "Remembering Ralph Roberts". New Zealand Olympic Committee. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2024.

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