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Kate Haines (horse)
New Zealand competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the country's 25th 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 pair of art ... [...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 cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly 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 Summer Olympics, 1932. This was the first of two consecutive Olympic Games to be held in North America, with Calgary, Alberta, Canada, hosting the 1988 Winter Olympics. California was the home state of the incumbent President of the United States, U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who officially opened the Games. These were the first Summer Olympic Games under the President of the International Olympic Committee, IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch. The 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, 1984 Games were boycotted by fourteen Eastern Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union and East Germany, in response to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, American-led boycott of the ... [...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 was a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team and New Zealand women's national rugby union team. Woodman was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team that won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She retired from international sevens rugby after the Paris Olympics. In 2022, Woodman became the first woman to score 200 tries in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, Sevens Series. In May 2024, Woodman became the first woman to score 250 tries in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, Sevens Series. In May 2025 she became New Zealand’s leading women’s fifteen-a-side try scorer of all time. Early life Woodman was born in Kawakawa, New Zealand, Kawakawa on 12 July 1991 to Kathryn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Waaka
Stacey Jamie Aroha Kirsten Waaka (born 3 November 1995) is a New Zealand rugby union and rugby league player. She played fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team and New Zealand Women's National Rugby Union team. Waaka was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team which won gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. 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. Following the Paris Olympics she spent the Sevens off-season playing rugby league during an injury-disrupted 2024 season with the Brisbane Broncos. Early life Waaka was born 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 Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Fitzpatrick
Theresa Matauaina Setefano (''née'' 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 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She played for the Blues Women in the 2022 Super Rugby Aupiki season. Since her marriage in December 2023 she has used the surname, Setefano. Early life Theresa Matauaina Fitzpatrick was born on 25 February 1995 to Greg and Faalogo Rosemary Fitzpatrick. 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. 2017–2020 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 Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Saili
Alena Saili (born 13 December 1998) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player.is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays seven-a-side and fifteen-a-side rugby union, and is a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team. Saili joined the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team in 2017. She was a member of the New Zealand women's sevens teams that won gold medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. In 2018–2019 she played five games for the fifteen-a-side New Zealand women's national rugby union team. Saili was a member of the New Zealand women's sevens team that it won a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She was a member the New Zealand women's 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 durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risi Pouri-Lane
Risealeaana "Risi" Pouri-Lane (born 28 May 2000) is a New Zealand rugby union and 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, the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics. She is the only New Zealander to have won a gold medal at both a youth and summer Olympics. She made her international debut for the Black Ferns fifteens in 2025. Early life Pouri-Lane was born on 28 May 2000 in Auburn, Sydney, Australia, to New Zealanders Lealofi and Kevin Pouri-Lane. When she was three years old her family returned to New Zealand, settling in Motueka. She attended Motueka High School from where she graduated in 2017. At the age of five she began judo and went on to win several national age group competitions. She represented New Zealand at the 2016 judo Oceania championships. At the age of 10, she started playing touch rugby as a social player. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahina Paul
Mahina Paul (born 19 April 2001) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. 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 status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis .... On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been sele ... [...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 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 rig ... [...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 attend ... [...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 for t ... [...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. She has played fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, as a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team and New Zealand women's national rugby union team. Hirini was captain of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team that 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 at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. During her time with the team 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 as well as the Sevens league title for the 2023-24 season. To date she has played the most games for the team. She was also a member of the fifteen-a-side 2017 and 2021 New Zealand Rugby World Cup winning squads. Early life Hirini was born on 9 December 1992 to Ronnie and Alan Goss. Her sister Rachael Rakatau also plays rugby and play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
