New Zealand and the Olympic Games
A DigitalNZ Story by National Library of New Zealand Topics
Aotearoa New Zealand has a proud history of participation and success at Olympic Games. Find out about the history of our involvement in the summer, winter and youth Olympics as well as the Paralympics. SCIS no. 1550960.
SOPHIE PASCOE
Our Wāhine
Paralympics New Zealand
Services to Schools
Triumph of the Human Spirit
NZ On Screen
New Zealand's Paralympics squad gears up for Paris
Radio New Zealand
Neroli Fairhall
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
First Special Olympics
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Violet Walrond at the 1920 Olympics
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Olympics 2024.
National Library of New Zealand
First Olympic Games glossary in Māori and English launched
Radio New Zealand
Breakdancing joins the Olympics for 2024
Radio New Zealand
NZ plans to send nearly 200 competitors to Paris Olympics
Radio New Zealand
Group at the first New Zealand junior and intermediate championships, Wanganui
Alexander Turnbull Library
Pole vaulter Eliza McCartney at the Olympics, 2016
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Jack Lovelock winning at Berlin Olympics
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Los Angeles Olympics cartoon
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
BARBARA KENDALL
Our Wāhine
Olympians
DigitalNZ
Close-up view of a blazer pocket monogram for the NZ Olympic Boxing Team to the 1960 Rome Olympics
Alexander Turnbull Library
Olympic torch, Māngere, 2000
Auckland Libraries
NZ's first Olympic century - The Olympics
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
New Zealand celebrates 100 years of Olympics
Services to Schools
New Zealand at the Summer Olympics
Services to Schools
New Zealand athletes achieve best ever performance at an Olympic Games
Services to Schools
Marise Chamberlain, Tokyo, 1964
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The New Zealand Olympic Committee
Services to Schools
NZ's Olympic pioneers (1908)
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
New Zealand's Olympic story
Services to Schools
Some of our finest New Zealand Olympic wins
Services to Schools
New Zealand win men's double sculls at the London 2012 Olympics
Services to Schools
Our first Olympians
Services to Schools
New Zealand at the Winter Olympic Games
Services to Schools
Yvette Williams
Services to Schools
The first Olympic gold for New Zealand
Services to Schools
Lisa Carrington after winning gold in Rio.
Radio New Zealand
A world record at Cooks Gardens - Roadside Stories
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Sound clip: Yvette Williams at the 1952 Olympics
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame inductees
Services to Schools
Mark Todd on Charisma, Seoul, 1988
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The black singlet
Services to Schools
Black gold
Services to Schools
Arthur Lydiard
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The Evers-Swindell twins' Beijing victory, 2008
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Duncan Laing and Danyon Loader, Atlanta, 1996
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Hamish Carter and Bevan Docherty, Athens, 2004
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Sarah Ulmer
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Olympic victory
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Auckland teen breaks 123 weightlifting records
Radio New Zealand
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Annelise Coberger
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Beatrice Faumuina, Manchester, 2002
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
New Zealand Sport
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