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New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics

IOC code	NZL
NOC	New Zealand Olympic and British Commonwealth Games Association
Website	www.olympic.org.nz
inMunich
Competitors	89 (82 men, 7 women) in 14 sports
Flag bearer	David Aspin (Wrestling)
Medals Ranked 23rd	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 3
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 1972 Summer OlympicsinMunich, West Germany. For the first time at the Olympics, God Defend New Zealand was played instead of God Save the King/Queen. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 89 competitors, 82 men and 7 women, who took part in 63 events in 14 sports.^[1]

Medal tables

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie (cox)	Rowing	Men's eight	2 September
Silver	Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills	Rowing	Men's coxless four	2 September
Bronze	Rod Dixon	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	10 September

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Rowing	1	1	0	2
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Total	1	1	1	3

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	1	1	1	3
Female	0	0	0	0
Total	1	1	1	3

Archery

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In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, New Zealand entered one man in the competition.

Athlete	Event	Round 1						Round 2						Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	30 m	50 m	70 m	90 m	Total	Rank	30 m	50 m	70 m	90 m	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Robin Sampson	Men's individual	278	268	279	235	1060	53	309	210	289	247	1055	53	2115	53

Athletics

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Track and road

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank^[i]	Result	Rank^[ii]	Result	Rank^[iii]	Result	Rank
Laurie D'Arcy	Men's 100 m	10.77	5	did not advance
Rod Dixon	Men's 1500 m	3:40.0	2Q	—		3:37.9	1Q	3:37.5
Jack Foster	Men's marathon	—						2:16:56	8
Sue Haden	Women's 800 m	2:04.86	4	—		did not advance
Penny Hunt	Women's 400 m	52.82	2Q	52.66	6	did not advance
Roger Johnson	Men's 400 m hurdles	50.48	4	—		did not advance
Terry Manners	Men's marathon	—						2:25:29	34
Brenda Matthews	Women's 100 m	11.77	5Q	11.87	8	did not advance
Brenda Matthews	Women's 100 m hurdles	13.81	5	—		did not advance
Dave McKenzie	Men's marathon	—						2:22:19	22
Tony Polhill	Men's 1500 m	3:42.3	2Q	—		3:41.8	3Q	3:41.8	9
Dick Quax	Men's 5000 m	14:35.2	9	—				did not advance
Bevan Smith	Men's 200 m	21.17	3Q	21.04	4	did not advance
Dick Tayler	Men's 5000 m	13:56.2	10	—				did not advance
Gavin Thorley	Men's 5000 m	14:11.6	10	—				did not advance
Gavin Thorley	Men's 10,000 m	DNF		—				did not advance

^ Ranks given are within the heat

^ Ranks given are within the quarterfinal

^ Ranks given are within the semifinal

Field

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Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Les Mills	Men's shot put	18.38	23	did not advance
Les Mills	Men's discus throw	59.22	14Q	55.86	14
Robin Tait	Men's discus throw	56.60	20	did not advance

Boxing

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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
Jeff Rackley	Men's welterweight	Bye	Meier (FRG) L 0 – 5	did not advance				=17
Pat Ryan	Men's featherweight	Bye	Kobayashi (JPN) L 1 – 4	did not advance				=17

Canoeing

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Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Donald Cooper	Men's K-1 1000 m	4:12.45	5R	4:02.48	1Q	4:01.97	5	did not advance
Donald Cooper Tom Dooney	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:56.48	5R	3:45.65	5	did not advance

Cycling

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Eight cyclists represented New Zealand in 1972.

Road

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Men's individual road race

Athlete	Time	Rank
Bruce Biddle	4:15:04	3^[i]
Paul Brydon	4:17:03	50
Vern Hanaray	DNF
Robert Oliver	DNF

^ Biddle was classified as the third-placed finisher after Jaime Huélamo of Spain was disqualified for failing a drugs test. The bronze medal was, however, not awarded to Biddle as he had not been drug-tested.

Track

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Men's 1000 m time trial

Athlete	Time	Rank
Harry Kent	1:09.10	16

Men's team pursuit

Athlete	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Paul Brydon John Dean Neil Lyster Blair Stockwell	4:35.11	14	did not advance

Brent Pascoe was the reserve rider, but did not compete.

Gymnastics

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Men's individual

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Apparatus qualifying and all-around

Athlete	Floor			Pommel horse			Rings			Vault			Parallel bars			Horizontal bar			All-around total	All-around rank
Athlete	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	All-around total	All-around rank
Terry Sale	7.300	8.650	=104	6.500	8.050	=101	6.600	7.350	110	9.000	8.900	=71	6.650	8.500	110	6.150	8.400	110	92.050	110

Sale did not qualify for any of the apparatus finals.

Women's individual

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Apparatus qualifying and all-around

Athlete	Vault			Uneven bars			Balance beam			Floor			All-around total	All-around rank
Athlete	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	C	O	Rank	All-around total	All-around rank
Diane Foote	8.600	8.900	=69	7.950	7.800	113	8.400	8.100	94	8.350	8.750	=99	66.850	=104

Foote did not qualify for any of the apparatus finals.

Field hockey

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Men's tournament

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Team roster

Jeff Archibald
Arthur Borren
Jan Borren
John Christensen
Greg Dayman
Chris Ineson
Ross McPherson
Barry Maister

Selwyn Maister
Trevor Manning
Arthur Parkin
Ramesh Patel
Alan Patterson
Kevin Rigby
Ted Salmon
Warwick Wright

Head coach

Ross Gillespie

Group B

27 August 1972

New Zealand	1–1	Australia

28 August 1972

New Zealand	7–0	Mexico

30 August 1972

New Zealand	2–1	Great Britain

31 August 1972

Netherlands	2–0	New Zealand

2 September 1972

New Zealand	3–3	Poland

3 September 1972

New Zealand	2–2	Kenya

4 September 1972

India	3–2	New Zealand

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Qualification
India	7	5	2	0	25	8	12	Advance to semi-finals
Netherlands	7	5	1	1	20	9	11	Advance to semi-finals
Great Britain	7	4	1	2	15	10	9	5th–8th place classification
Australia	7	3	2	2	18	8	8	5th–8th place classification
New Zealand	7	2	3	2	16	11	7	9th / 10th place play-off
Poland	7	2	2	3	12	12	6	11th / 12th place play-off
Kenya	7	1	1	5	8	17	3	13th / 14th place play-off
Mexico	7	0	0	7	1	40	0	15th / 16th place play-off

9th / 10th Place play-off

8 September 1972

New Zealand	2–1 (0–0)	Belgium

New Zealand finished the men's field hockey tournament in ninth place.

Judo

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Athlete	Event	Pool					Repechages			Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Semifinal	Final	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Rick Littlewood	Men's middleweight	Bye	Adamczyk (POL) W	Bijkerk (AUS) W	Sekine (JPN) L	did not advance						=11

Rowing

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1972 was the last year that only men competed at the Olympic rowing events.^[2] New Zealand entered boats in four of the seven events.^[3] The gold medal won by the 1972 New Zealand eight is one of New Zealand's most memorable performances, and was in 2008 rated by sports journalist Joseph Romanos as New Zealand's best ever team performance at the Olympic Games.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Murray Watkinson	Single sculls	7:51.29	2R	8:11.51	3SA/B	8:30.88	5FB	8:05.42	10
Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills	Coxless four	6:47.27	1SA/B	Bye		7:03.99	1FA	6:25.64
Warren Cole Chris Nilsson John Clark David Lindstrom Peter Lindsay	Coxed four	6:51,76	3SA/B	Bye		7:21.94	3FA	6:42.55	6
Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie (cox)	Eight	6:06.19	1R	Bye		6:28.40	2FA	6:08.94

Sailing

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Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Net points	Final rank
Fraser Beer Noel Everett (helm) Ron Watson	Dragon	14.0	19.0	~~21.0~~	15.0	3.0	0.0	C	51.0	5
Jock Bilger (helm) Murray Ross	Flying Dutchman	20.0	~~27.0~~	3.0	3.0	10.0	17.0	24.0	79.0	9
Bret De Thier	Finn	15.0	11.7	21.0	3.0	33.0	41.0 DNF	26.0	109.7	10
Con Linton Steve Marten (helm) Jack Scholes	Soling	20.0	24.0	25.0	~~26.0~~	26.0	18.0	C	113.0	21

Jonty Farmer, Jack Hansen, Geoff Smals and Bryan Treleaven were named as alternates but did not compete.

Shooting

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Four male shooters represented New Zealand in 1972.

Mixed 25 m rapid fire pistol

Athlete	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total	Rank
Bruce McMillan	197	195	190	582	28

Mixed 50 m rifle, prone

Athlete	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Rank
Ian Ballinger	98	100	100	100	97	96	591	46
Mike Watt	99	98	100	100	99	97	593	29

Mixed 50 m running target

Athlete	Slow run	Fast run	Total	Rank
Graeme McIntyre	270	253	523	26

Swimming

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Heather Coombridge	Women's 100 m freestyle	1:02.95	35	did not advance
Heather Coombridge	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:14.78	22	—		did not advance
Colin Herring	Men's 100 m freestyle	54.41	=22	did not advance
Colin Herring	Men's 200 m freestyle	2:00.29	26	—		did not advance
Susan Hunter	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:10.06	26	did not advance
	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:28.28	21	—		did not advance
	Women's 200 m individual medley	2:30.29	17	—		did not advance
	Women's 400 m individual medley	5:14.47	9	—		did not advance
John McConnochie	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:15.04	15	—		did not advance
John McConnochie	Men's 400 m individual medley	4:49.89	17	—		did not advance
Jaynie Parkhouse	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:40.24	19	—		did not advance
Jaynie Parkhouse	Women's 800 m freestyle	9:34.65	16	—		did not advance
Mark Treffers	Men's 400 m freestyle	4:14.10	20	—		did not advance
Mark Treffers	Men's 1500 m freestyle	16:23.86	6Q	—		16:18.84	6

Weightlifting

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Athlete	Event	Press		Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
John Bolton	Men's middle heavyweight	NVL		—					DNF
Tony Ebert	Men's middleweight	137.5	=16	117.5	=17	155.0	=15	410.0	17
Brian Marsden	Men's light heavyweight	142.5	15	120.0	=17	172.5	=9	435.0	12

Wrestling

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Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
David Aspin	Men's freestyle middleweight	Birajdar (IND) Both DQ	Hagilou (IRI) L	Eliminated

Officials

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Chef de Mission – Joe McManemin^[5]
Assistant team manager – Jack Prestney^[6]
Team doctor – Tom Anderson^[7]
Chaperone – Doris Fitzsimmons^[8]
Archery section manager – Jack Richards^[9]
Athletics
- Section manager – Graham Davy^[9]
- Coach – Valdemars Briedis^[10]
Boxing section manager – David Tipping^[11]
Canoeing section manager – Stan Robinson^[12]
Cycling
- Section manager – Colin Hollows^[13]
- Coach / mechanic – Bruce Goldsworthy^[13]
Field hockey
- Section manager – Merv Good^[12]
- Coach – Ross Gillespie^[12]
Gymnastics section manager – Cameron A. R. Buchanan^[14]
Judo section manager – Jack Fielding^[15]
Rowing
- Section manager – Fred Strachan^[9]
- Coach – Rusty Robertson^[9]
- Assistant coach – Ted Lindstrom^[9]
Sailing section manager – Hal Wagstaff^[9]
Shooting section manager – Hong Tse^[16]
Swimming
- Section manager – Graeme Brockett^[17]
- Coach – Pic Parkhouse^[12]
Weightlifting
- Section manager – Peter Watson^[18]
- Coach – Paul Newberry^[12]
Wrestling section manager – Art Pickering^[9]

References

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^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2014.

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rowing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2016.

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand Rowing at the 1972 München Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

^ Romanos, Joseph (31 July 2017). "New Zealand's rowing eight wins gold". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 2 January 2018.

^ Skipwith, David (6 August 2014). "Athletics world mourns loss of top coach". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

^ "Prestney Games team manager". The Press. 15 December 1977. p. 31. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

^ "Sports-medicine pioneer dies". The Press. 22 June 1978. p. 24. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

^ "Secretary is Games chaperone". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32907. 4 May 1972. p. 5. Retrieved 12 January 2023.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "69 named for Olympics". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32905. 2 May 1972. p. 24. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

^ "The pressures will be "tremendous": Olympic athletic coach wants N.Z. team mentally prepared". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32942. 14 June 1972. p. 12. Retrieved 12 January 2023.

^ ""Southpaw opponent": beaten boxer surprised". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 33010. 1 September 2023. p. 6. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "47 approved". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32929. 30 May 1972. p. 28. Retrieved 12 January 2023.

^ ^a ^b "Discussion on cycling officials deferred". The Press. Vol. 113, no. 33151. 15 February 1973. p. 36. Retrieved 12 August 2022.

^ "Errand of experience for Olympic gymnasts". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32983. 1 August 1972. p. 28. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

^ "Plea for boxer, Byrne: late addition to Games refused". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32972. 19 July 1972. p. 32. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

^ "4 shooters nominated". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32910. 8 May 1972. p. 16. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

^ "Olympic tit-bits". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32999. 19 August 1972. p. 44. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

^ "Athletes' travel plans". The Press. Vol. 112, no. 32949. 22 June 1972. p. 24. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

v t e National Olympic Committees at the 1972 Summer OlympicsinMunich, West Germany
Africa	Algeria Cameroon Chad Congo Dahomey Egypt Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Morocco Niger Nigeria Senegal Somalia Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Upper Volta Zambia
America	Argentina Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Honduras Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Haiti Jamaica Mexico Netherlands Antilles Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad-Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Burma Ceylon Republic of China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan Khmer Republic North Korea South Korea Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia Mongolia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Saudi Arabia Singapore Syria Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France East Germany West Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand

v t e 1972 New Zealand Olympic team
Archery	Robin Sampson
Athletics	Laurie D'Arcy Rod Dixon Jack Foster Sue Haden Penny Hunt Roger Johnson Terry Manners Brenda Matthews Dave McKenzie Les Mills Tony Polhill Dick Quax Bevan Smith Robin Tait Dick Tayler Gavin Thorley
Boxing	Jeff Rackley Pat Ryan
Canoeing	Donald Cooper Tom Dooney
Cycling	Bruce Biddle Paul Brydon John Dean Vern Hanaray Harry Kent Neil Lyster Robert Oliver Blair Stockwell
Gymnastics	Diane Foote Terry Sale
Field hockey	Jeff Archibald Arthur Borren Jan Borren John Christensen Greg Dayman Chris Ineson Ross McPherson Barry Maister Selwyn Maister Trevor Manning Arthur Parkin Ramesh Patel Alan Patterson Kevin Rigby Ted Salmon Warwick Wright
Judo	Rick Littlewood
Rowing	John Clark Trevor Coker Warren Cole Ross Collinge Simon Dickie Joe Earl John Hunter Tony Hurt Dick Joyce Peter Lindsay David Lindstrom Noel Mills Chris Nilsson Gary Robertson Dudley Storey Dick Tonks Wybo Veldman Murray Watkinson Lindsay Wilson
Sailing	Fraser Beer Jock Bilger Noel Everett Con Linton Steve Marten Murray Ross Jack Scholes Bret de Thier Ron Watson
Shooting	Ian Ballinger Graeme McIntyre Bruce McMillan Mike Watt
Swimming	Heather Coombridge Colin Herring Susan Hunter John McConnochie Jaynie Parkhouse Mark Treffers
Weightlifting	John Bolton Tony Ebert Brian Marsden
Wrestling	David Aspin
Chef de Mission: Joe McManemin

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