New Zealand at the 1984 Summer Olympics
IOC code	NZL
NOC	New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association
Website	www.olympic.org.nz
inLos Angeles, USA
Competitors	130 in 18 sports
Flag bearer	John Walker
Officials	59
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 8 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 11
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New Zealand competed at the1984 Summer Olympics inLos Angeles, United States. 130 competitors, 98 men and 32 women, took part in 76 events in 18 sports.^[1] The country recorded 11 medals, including eight golds, resulting in the nation ranking among the top ten in the medal table for the first time.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Mark Todd	Equestrian	Individual eventing	3 August
Gold	Shane O'Brien Les O'Connell Conrad Robertson Keith Trask	Rowing	Men's coxless four	5 August
Gold	Rex Sellers Chris Timms	Sailing	Tornado	8 August
Gold	Russell Coutts	Sailing	Finn	8 August
Gold	Ian Ferguson	Canoeing	Men's K-1 500 metres	10 August
Gold	Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-2 500 metres	10 August
Gold	Alan Thompson	Canoeing	Men's K-1 1000 metres	11 August
Gold	Grant Bramwell Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald Alan Thompson	Canoeing	Men's K-4 1000 metres	11 August
Silver	Kevin Barry	Boxing	Light heavyweight	11 August
Bronze	Kevin Lawton Barrie Mabbott Don Symon Ross Tong Brett Hollister (cox)	Rowing	Men's coxed four	5 August
Bronze	Bruce Kendall	Sailing	Windglider	8 August

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Canoeing	4	0	0	4
Sailing	2	0	1	3
Rowing	1	0	1	2
Equestrian	1	0	0	1
Boxing	0	1	0	1
Total	8	1	2	11

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	5	1	2	8
Female	0	0	0	0
Mixed / open	3	0	0	3
Total	8	1	2	11

After a twelve-year hiatus from archery, New Zealand returned in 1984 with one man and two women. This included the firstparaplegic Olympian,Neroli Fairhall.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Kevin Barry	Men's light heavyweight	Smith (TRI) W 5 – 0	Kiriisa (UGA) W 3 – 2	Nanga (CMR) W 4 – 1	Holyfield (USA) WDSQ-2	Josipović (YUG) LWO
Michael Kenny	Men's heavyweight	Bye	Owiny (UGA) LRSC-2	did not advance			=9

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Grant Bramwell Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald Alan Thompson	Men's K-4 1000 m	3:05.99	1Q	—N/a		3:05.67	1Q	3:02.28
Ian Ferguson	Men's K-1 500 m	1:49.32	2Q	—N/a		1:48.00	1Q	1:47.84
Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Men's K-2 500 m	1:36.82	1Q	—N/a		1:36.10	1Q	1:34.21
Robert Jenkinson Edwin Richards	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:37.69	4R	3:45.97	3Q	3:38.80	5	did not advance
Alan Thompson	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:53.41	1Q	—N/a		3:58.90	1Q	3:45.73

Seven cyclists represented New Zealand in 1984.

Men's individual road race

Men's 1 km time trial

Men's points race

Men's individual pursuit

Athlete	Qualification		Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time
Anthony Cuff	4:55.06	15	Robert (FRA) L 4:50.49	did not advance			11

Men's team pursuit

Men's sprint

Athlete	Round 1	Round 1 repechage heat	Round 1 repechage final	Round 2	Round 2 repechage	Round 3	Round 3 repechage	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Murray Steele	Sella (ITA)  Lyn (ANT) 3R	Asuncion (PHI) W 12.09Q	—N/a	Scheller (FRG) LR	Jamur (BRA) W 12.92Q	Vernet (FRA)  Orban (BEL) 2R	Scheller (FRG)  Iannone (ARG) 3	did not advance

Rider	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping		Overall
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Andrew Bennie	Jade	Individual	69.40	33	126.40	37	5.00	23	200.80	37
Mary Hamilton	Whist	Individual	63.20	20	26.80	21	8.00	33	98.00	22
Andrew Nicholson	Kahlua	Individual	78.00	45	27.20	22	25.00	40	130.40	28
Mark Todd	Charisma	Individual	51.60	5	0.00	1	0.00	1	51.60
Andrew Bennie Mary Hamilton Andrew Nicholson Mark Todd	As above	Team	184.20	5	54.00	6	13.00	8	280.00	6

Two fencers, both men, represented New Zealand in 1984.

Athlete	Event	Round 1 pool	Quarterfinal pool	Semifinal pool	Final pool	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Martin Brill	Men's individual épée	Bergström (SWE) L 3 – 5	Marx (USA) L 3 – 5	Boisse (FRA) L 3 – 5	Dessureault (CAN) L 4 – 10	15
		Giger (SUI) L 4 – 5	Boisse (FRA) W 5 – 4	Bellone (ITA) W 5 – 2	Poffet (SUI) L 8 – 10
		Yun (KOR) T 5 – 5	Zong (CHN) W 5 – 4	Marx (USA) W 5 – 4	Eliminated
		Al-Rasheed (KSA) W 5 – 4	Lee (KOR) W 5 – 4	Cui (CHN) W 5 – 0
		—N/a	Lembacher (AUT) L 3 – 5	Fischer (FRG) L 3 – 5
David Cocker	Men's individual épée	Nigon (SUI) L 2 – 5	did not advance			50
		Hasan (KUW) L 2 – 5
		Kim (KOR) L 4 – 5
		Cuomo (ITA) T 5 – 5
		Pedersen (NOR) W 5 – 4

Team roster

Pool B

30 July 1984 15:30 New Zealand  3–3  Pakistan Daji 5', 68', 70+' Report Sardar 15', 46', 51' Umpires: Santiago Deo (ESP) Richard Kentwell (USA)

1 August 1984 08:00 Netherlands  3–1  New Zealand T. Kruize 17' J. Kruize 40' Van Grimbergen 42' Report McLeod 52' Umpires: Iwo Sakaida (JPN) Jack Marjanovic (USA)

3 August 1984 13:45 Great Britain  1–0  New Zealand Cattrall 13' Report Umpires: Santiago Deo (ESP) Obaidullah (IND)

5 August 1984 08:00 Kenya  1–4  New Zealand Otambo 49' Report P. Miskimmin 14' Parkin 58' Daji 62' Gallen 69' Umpires: Richard Kentwell (USA) Obaidullah (IND)

7 August 1984 15:30 Canada  2–2  New Zealand Cholakis 4' Sandhu 66' Report Grimshaw 32' Gallen 35+' Umpires: Richard Kentwell (USA) Alexander Stelter (FRG)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Qualification
Great Britain	5	4	1	0	10	5	9	Advance to semi-finals
Pakistan	5	2	3	0	16	7	7	Advance to semi-finals
Netherlands	5	3	1	1	16	9	7	5th–8th place classification
New Zealand	5	1	2	2	10	10	4	5th–8th place classification
Kenya	5	1	0	4	5	14	2	9th–12th place classification
Canada	5	0	1	4	7	19	1	9th–12th place classification

5th–8th Classification round

9 August 1984 08:00 India  1–0  New Zealand Sharma 54' Report Umpires: Dennis Meredith (AUS) Iwo Sakaida (JPN)

7th / 8th Place play-off

10 August 1984 15:00 Spain  0–1  New Zealand Report Parkin 37' Umpires: Rob Lathouwers (NED) Richard Kentwell (USA)

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

Team roster

Round robin

31 July 1984 14:30 Netherlands  2–1  New Zealand First Half: Boekhorst PC' Second Half: von Weiler FG' Report Second Half: McDonald FG' Stadium: Weingart Stadium

2 August 1984 14:30 Australia  3–0  New Zealand First Half: Sunderland FG' Heberle PC' Second Half: Buchanan FG' Report Stadium: Weingart Stadium

4 August 1984 16:15 New Zealand  0–2  United States Report Anders 23', 42' Stadium: Weingart Stadium

6 August 1984 16:45 West Germany  1–0  New Zealand Ott 39' Report Stadium: Weingart Stadium

10 August 1984 09:45 Canada  4–1  New Zealand Forshaw 1' Stoyka 19' Wheatley 21' Branchaud 68' Report Clinton 65' Stadium: Weingart Stadium

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Rank
Netherlands	5	4	1	0	14	6	9	1
West Germany	5	2	2	1	9	9	6	2
United States	5	2	1	2	9	7	5	3
Australia	5	2	1	2	9	7	5	4
Canada	5	2	1	2	9	11	5	5
New Zealand	5	0	0	5	2	12	0	6

New Zealand finished the women's field hockey tournament in sixth place.

Women's individual all-around

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gary Reid	Single sculls	7:27.10	2R	7:26.12	2SA/B	7:34.15	5FB	7:22.63	7
Geoff Horan Allan Horan	Coxless pair	7:05.44	2SA/B	Bye		7:02.89	4FB	7:04.00	9
Les O'Connell Shane O'Brien Conrad Robertson Keith Trask	Coxless four	6:08.41	1FA	Bye		—N/a		6:03.48
Kevin Lawton Don Symon Barrie Mabbott Ross Tong Brett Hollister (cox)	Coxed four	6:27.18	3SA/B	?	1FA	—N/a		6:23.68
Nigel Atherfold Dave Rodger Roger White-Parsons George Keys Greg Johnston Chris White Andrew Stevenson Mike Stanley Andy Hay (cox)	Eight	5:48.19	1FA	Bye		—N/a		5:44.14	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Luke Carter David Mackay (helm)	Flying Dutchman	13.0	21.0	16.0	22.0	18.0	13.0	10.0	91.0	10
Russell Coutts	Finn	0.0	13.0	3.0	3.0	27.0	5.7	10.0	34.7
Simon Daubney Tom Dodson (helm) Aran Hansen	Soling	DNF 29.0	18.0	23.0	17.0	19.0	11.7	0.0	88.7	11
Peter Evans (helm) Sean Reeves	470	14.0	21.0	16.0	DSQ 35.0	PMS 35.0	10.0	5.7	101.7	14
Bruce Kendall	Windglider	3.0	5.7	DSQ 45.0	19.0	3.0	5.7	10.0	46.4
Rex Sellers (helm) Chris Timms	Tornado	5.7	3.0	0.0	3.0	0.0	3.0	DNS 27.0	14.7

Men's 50 m rifle, prone

Men's 50 m running target

Mixed skeet

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Final round	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Zane Coleman	Men's welterweight	Sejdiu (YUG) L Fall	D. Schultz (USA) LST	Eliminated
Graeme Hawkins	Men's bantamweight	García (ESP) W Fall	Davis (USA) LST	Guan (CHN) LST	Eliminated
Ken Reinsfield	Men's middleweight	Agogo (NGR) W 5 – 1	M. Schultz (USA) L 7 – 16	El-Ashram (EGY) WPS	Rinke (CAN) L 2 – 9	Kim (KOR) L 3 – 10	6

• Chef de Mission –Ron Scott^[2]
• Assistant Chef de Mission –Tay Wilson^[3]
• Women's manager –Valerie Young^[3]
• Director of medical services –Matt Marshall^[3]
• Assistant director of medical services –Dave Gerrard^[3]
• Physiotherapists –Mark Oram,Ian Sim, Tony Snell, Marion Thogersen^[3]
• Transport officer – Hamish Morison^[3]
• Attache – M. Portanova (Tarzana, California)^[3]
• Office manager – M. Bolton (Los Angeles, California)^[3]
• Archery
  • Section manager – Ivan Powley^[3]
  • Assistant manager –Dave Henshaw^[3]
• Athletics
  • Section manager –Graeme McCabe^[3]
  • Coaches –Arch Jelley,Sylvia Potts^[3]
• Boxing section manager –Kevin Barry Sr.^[3]
• Canoeing
  • Section manager –Bill Garlick^[3]
  • Coaches –Ben Hutchings, Brian Wilson^[3]
• Cycling
  • Section manager –Graham Sycamore^[3]
  • Road coach –Ron Cheatley^[3]
  • Track coach –Wayne Thorpe^[3]
  • Mechanic – Peter Goding^[3]
• Equestrian
  • Section manager (three-day event) – Peter Herrick^[3]
  • Section manager (showjumping) – Hugh Morice^[3]
  • Veterinary surgeon –Wallie Niederer^[3]
  • Grooms –Trudy Boyce, J. Charlston,Jackie Cottle, D. Frost, H. Gilbert^[3]
• Field hockey
  • Section manager (men) – Dave Coulter^[3]
  • Section manager (women) – Gladys O'Brien^[3]
  • Men's coaches –Brian Maunsell, C. Cameron^[3]
  • Women's coach –Wayne Boyd^[3]
• Judo section manager – Brian Cloynes^[3]
• Rowing
  • Section manager –Dudley Storey
  • Coaches –Harry Mahon, Brian Hawthorne, Richard Webster, Ray Reid^[3]
• Sailing
  • Section manager –Ralph Roberts^[4]
  • Coach –Bret de Thier^[3]
  • Boating –Gray Gibson^[3]
• Shooting section manager –Graeme Hudson^[3]
• Swimming
  • Section manager – Jacqueline Clarke^[3]
  • Coach (swimming) – Hisashi Inomata^[3]
  • Coach (diving) – Dennis Gear^[3]
• Wrestling section manager – Keith Breeze^[3]

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