New Zealand Olympic Committee

Country	New Zealand
Code	NZL
Created	1911
Recognized	1919
Continental Association	ONOC
Headquarters	Auckland, New Zealand
President	Liz Dawson
Secretary General	Nicki Nicol
Website	olympic.org.nz

TheNew Zealand Olympic Committee (before 1994, TheNew Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) is both theNational Olympic Committee and theCommonwealth Games Association inNew Zealand responsible for selecting athletes to represent New Zealand in theSummer andWinter Olympic Games and theCommonwealth Games.^[1]

While a founder member of theInternational Olympic Committee, New Zealand did not send its own team to compete until the Games of the VI Olympiad (Antwerp1920), though at the1908 and1912 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 the1980 Summer Olympics at Moscow due to theboycott. New Zealand first competed at the Winter Olympics in1952, but did not compete in the1956 or1964 Winter Olympics.

New Zealand has sent a team to every Commonwealth Games since the first in 1930, which was held in Canada and then called theBritish Empire Games. They are held every four years, in between the Olympic Games.^[1]

The NZOC (New Zealand Olympic Committee) is a member of theInternational Olympic Committee and theCommonwealth Games Federation.

The NZOC emblem consisting of a depiction of asilver fern (New Zealand's sporting emblem) superimposed on the Olympic Rings was created as a marketing symbol in 1979 (which was initially in all-white on a black background). It was first publicly used at an Olympic Games at the Games of the XXII Olympiad (Moscow1980, in which observers thought that the fern was an olive branch of peace)—New Zealand competed under this flag to protest theSoviet invasion of Afghanistan. It went to its current coloured version in 1994.

The NZOC (New Zealand Olympic Committee) is theNational Olympic Committee for New Zealand. The NZOC was founded in 1911 and recognised by the IOC in 1919. Former New Zealand members of the International Olympic Committee are:

• Leonard Cuff (1894–1905) 1st, one of the founding members (also Australia)
• Richard Coombes (1912–1919) 2nd (also Australia)
• Arthur A. Marryatt (1919–1923) 3rd
• Joseph Firth,CMG (1923–1927) 4th
• Lt-GenBernard Freyberg,VC, CMG, DSO (1928–1930) 5th
• Cecil J. Wray (1931–1934) 6th
• Sir Arthur Porritt,Bt GCMG CBE (1934–1967) 7th
• Sir Lance Cross,CBE (1969–1987) 8th
• Sir Tay Wilson,KNZM OBE (1988–2006) 9th
• Barbara Kendall,MBE (Oceania athletes' representative from 2005 to 2008) 10th
• Barry MaisterCNZM (2010–2018) 11th
• Barbara KendallCNZM MBE (2011–2016) 12th

Current International Olympic Committee (IOC) members are:

• Sarah Walker (Athletes' representative since 2016)

The NZOC is governed by a board that is headed by a president. Five of the board members are elected by the general assembly. The two IOC members plus an athletes' representative complete the board.^[2] Since November 2022, the president isLiz Dawson.^[3]

Presidents

• Liz Dawson (2022–present)^[4]
• Mike StanleyCNZM (2009–2022)^[5]
• Sir Eion EdgarKNZM (acting 2001–2003; elected 2003–2009)^[6]
• John DaviesMBE (active 2000–2001; formal but not acting 2001–2003)^[7][8]
• Hon.Sir David BeattieGCMG GCVO KBE QSO QC (1989–2000)^[9]

• Paralympics New Zealand
• New Zealand at the Olympics
• New Zealand at the Paralympics
• New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games
• New Zealand Olympic medallists
• Lonsdale Cup

• Official website

• National Olympic Committees
• Commonwealth Games Associations
• New Zealand at the Olympics
• Sports governing bodies in New Zealand
• 1911 establishments in New Zealand
• Sports organizations established in 1911

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