# New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics

New Zealand competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 80 athletes, 71 men and 9 women, and 29 officials. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was wrestler David Aspin.
In protest at a tour of South Africa by the All Blacks team early in the year, Congo's official Jean-Claude Ganga led a boycott of 28 African nations as the International Olympic Committee refused to bar the New Zealand team. Some of the nations (including Morocco, Cameroon and Egypt) had already participated however, as the teams only withdrew after the first day. From Southern and Central Africa, only Senegal and Ivory Coast took part. Both Iraq and Guyana also opted to join the Congolese-led boycott. For the full list of boycotting countries, see 1976 Summer Olympics#Non-participating National Olympic Committees

## Medal tables

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | New Zealand men's hockey team Paul AckerleyJeff ArchibaldArthur BorrenAlan ChesneyJohn ChristensenGreg DaymanTony InesonBarry MaisterSelwyn MaisterTrevor ManningAlan McIntyreArthur ParkinMohan PatelRamesh Patel | Field hockey | Men's tournament | 30 July |
| Gold | John Walker | Athletics | Men's 1500 m | 31 July |
| Silver | Dick Quax | Athletics | Men's 5000 m | 30 July |
| Bronze | Ivan Sutherland Trevor Coker Peter Dignan Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Dave Rodger Alec McLean Tony Hurt Simon Dickie (cox) | Rowing | Men's eight | 25 July |
Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Athletics | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Field hockey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Rowing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Medals by gender :
| Gender | | | | Total |
| Male | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Female | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |

## Athletics
### Track and road

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Quarterfinal | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Rod Dixon | Men's 5000 m | 13:20.48 | 2 Q | — | — | — | — | 13:25.50 | 4 |
| Jack Foster | Men's marathon | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2:17:53 | 17 |
| Anne Garrett | Women's 800 m | 2:05.78 | 7 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Anne Garrett | Women's 1500 m | 4:10.68 | 7 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Sue Jowett | Women's 100 m | 11.70 | 3 Q | 11.81 | 8 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Sue Jowett | Women's 200 m | 24.12 | 2 Q | 24.23 | 8 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Dick Quax | Men's 5000 m | 13:30.85 | 1 Q | — | — | — | — | 13:25.16 | |
| Euan Robertson | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 8:26.31 | 5 Q | — | — | — | — | 8:21.08 | 5 |
| Kevin Ryan | Men's marathon | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF |
| John Walker | Men's 800 m | 1:47.63 | 3 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| John Walker | Men's 1500 m | 3:36.87 | 1 Q | — | — | 3:39.65 | 1 Q | 3:39.17 | |
| Dianne Zorn | Women's 1500 m | 4:12.81 | 7 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
* ↑ Ranks given are within the heat
* ↑ Ranks given are within the quarterfinal
* ↑ Ranks given are within the semifinal

### Field

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Murray Cheater | Men's hammer throw | 67.38 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance |

## Boxing

| 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 |
| Robert Colley | Men's light welterweight | Limasov (URS) L RSC-3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | =25 |
| David Jackson | Men's welterweight | Chtioui (TUN) W RSC-2 | Rachkov (URS) L 0 – 5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | =17 |

## Canoeing

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechages | Repechages | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Donald Cooper | Men's K-1 1000 m | 4:04.29 | 5 R | 3:55.52 | 2 Q | 3:53.21 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Ian Ferguson | Men's K-1 500 m | 1:59.18 | 4 R | 1:53.65 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Rod Gavin John Leonard | Men's K-2 500 m | 1:47.03 | 5 R | 1:47.45 | 3 Q | 1:45.61 | 6 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Rod Gavin John Leonard | Men's K-2 1000 m | 3:37.09 | 5 R | 3:35.28 | 5 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Cycling

Four cyclists represented New Zealand in 1976.

### Road
#### Men's individual road race

| Athlete | Time | Rank |
| Garry Bell | 4:49:01 | 15 |
| Vern Hanaray | 5:00:19 | 52 |
| Jamie Richards | DNF | DNF |

### Track
#### Men's individual pursuit

| Athlete | Qualification | Qualification | Round 1 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Rank |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Rank |
| Mike Richards | 4:55.08 | 9 Q | Iversen (NOR) L 4:53.33 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 9 |

## Diving

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Rebecca Ewert | Women's 3 m springboard | 352.62 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance |

## Equestrian
### Jumping

| Athlete | Horse | Event | Round 1 | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 2 | Overall | Overall |
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Faults | Rank | Faults | Rank | Faults | Rank |
| Joe Yorke | Big Red | Individual | 20.00 | =30 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Field hockey
### Men's tournament
#### Team roster

| Paul Ackerley Jeff Archibald Arthur Borren Alan Chesney John Christensen Greg Dayman Tony Ineson Barry Maister | Selwyn Maister Trevor Manning Neil McLeod Alan McIntyre Arthur Parkin Mohan Patel Ramesh Patel Les Wilson |

#### Head coach

Ross Gillespie

#### Group B

* 18 July 1976
| West Germany | 1–1 | New Zealand |
| | Report | |
* 20 July 1976
| Spain | 1–1 | New Zealand |
| | Report | |
* 21 July 1976
| New Zealand | 2–1 | Belgium |
| | Report | |
* 24 July 1976
| Pakistan | 5–2 | New Zealand |
| | Report | |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Pakistan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 6 | +10 | 7 | Semi-finals |
| 2 | New Zealand | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 4 | Semi-finals |
| 3 | Spain | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 4 | |
| 4 | West Germany | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3 | |
| 5 | Belgium | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 2 | |
| 6 | Kenya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |
* 1 2 New Zealand and Spain finished on equal points at the conclusion of the pool stage, resulting in a match to determine second place in the pool. The match was contested on 26 July 1976 and New Zealand won 1–0.

#### Group B play-off

* 26 July 1976
| Spain | 0–1 (a.e.t.) | New Zealand |
| | Report | |
New Zealand advanced to the semi-finals, while Spain continued to the classification round for fifth to eighth places.

#### Semi-final

* 29 July 1976
| Netherlands | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | New Zealand |
| | Report | |

#### Final

* 30 July 1976
| New Zealand | 1–0 | Australia |
| Ineson | Report | |
Neil McLeod and Les Wilson were not awarded gold medals as they did not take the field during the tournament. The gold medal won by the New Zealand men's team in 1976 remains the only Olympic field hockey medal won by a New Zealand team.

## Rowing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechage | Repechage | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Bob Murphy Grant McAuley Des Lock David Lindstrom | Coxless four | 6:06.40 | 3 SA/B | Bye | Bye | 6:00.82 | 3 FA | 6:43.23 | 4 |
| Viv Haar Danny Keane Tim Logan Ian Boserio David Simmons (cox) | Coxed four | 6:06.40 | 3 SA/B | Bye | Bye | 6:00.82 | 3 FA | 6:43.23 | 4 |
| Ivan Sutherland Trevor Coker Peter Dignan Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Dave Rodger Alec McLean Tony Hurt Simon Dickie (cox) | Eight | 5:40.00 | 2 R | 5:37.08 | 1 FA | — | — | 6:03.51 | |

## Sailing

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Net points | Final rank |
| Brett Bennett Mark Paterson (helm) | 470 | 5.7 | 37.0 PMS | 16.0 | 3.0 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 22.0 | 59.7 | 5 |
| Jock Bilger (helm) Murray Ross | Flying Dutchman | 13.0 | 14.0 | 0.0 | 21.0 | 18.0 | 19.0 | 23.0 | 85.0 | 12 |
| Gavin Bornholdt Hugh Poole (helm) Chris Urry | Soling | 26.0 | 21.0 | 23.0 | 21.0 | 25.0 | 21.0 | 24.0 | 135.0 | 19 |
| Jonty Farmer | Finn | 25.0 | 10.0 | 21.0 | 19.0 | 21.0 | 17.0 | 21.0 | 109.0 | 15 |

## Shooting
### Mixed 50 m rifle, prone

| Athlete | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Total | Rank |
| Ian Ballinger | 100 | 98 | 100 | 94 | 98 | 100 | 590 | =20 |

### Mixed 50 m running target

| Athlete | Slow run | Fast run | Total | Rank |
| Graeme McIntyre | 279 | 268 | 547 | 19 |
| Grant Taylor | 257 | 279 | 536 | 24 |

### Mixed skeet

| Athlete | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7 | Round 8 | Total | Rank |
| John Woolley | | | | | | | | | 190 | =26 |

## Swimming

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Allison Calder | Women's 400 m freestyle | 4:23.64 | 15 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Allison Calder | Women's 800 m freestyle | 8:57.24 | 11 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| John Coutts | Men's 100 m butterfly | 57.29 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| John Coutts | Men's 200 m butterfly | 2:05.05 | 16 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Susan Hunter | Women's 200 m backstroke | 2:26.21 | 23 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Susan Hunter | Women's 400 m individual medley | 5:03.82 | 10 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| John McConnochie | Men's 200 m freestyle | 1:57.77 | 33 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| John McConnochie | Men's 400 m individual medley | 4:40.84 | 17 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Brett Naylor | Men's 400 m freestyle | 4:00.38 | 10 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Brett Naylor | Men's 1500 m freestyle | 15:52.68 | 16 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Rebecca Perrott | Women's 100 m freestyle | 57.66 | 8 Q | 58.13 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Rebecca Perrott | Women's 200 m freestyle | 2:03.94 | =9 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Rebecca Perrott | Women's 400 m freestyle | 4:15.71 OR | 1 Q | — | — | 4:14.76 | 4 |
| Monique Rodahl | Women's 100 m backstroke | 1:06.73 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Monique Rodahl | Women's 200 m backstroke | 2:19.22 | 11 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Monique Rodahl | Women's 400 m individual medley | 4:58.47 | 7 Q | — | — | 5:00.21 | 8 |
| Lynne Rowe | Women's 100 m butterfly | 1:04.23 | 16 Q | 1:04.06 | =14 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Lynne Rowe | Women's 200 m butterfly | 2:17.89 | 13 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Lynne Rowe | Women's 400 m individual medley | 5:09.21 | 13 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Mark Treffers | Men's 400 m individual medley | 4:40.92 | 18 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Mark Treffers | Men's 1500 m freestyle | 15:56.11 | 17 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |

## Weightlifting

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & jerk | Clean & jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Rory Barrett | Men's heavyweight | 150 | =15 | 192.5 | 13 | 342.5 | 15 |
| Brian Marsden | Men's middle heavyweight | 137.5 | =16 | 185.0 | 8 | 322.5 | 11 |
| Phillip Sue | Men's lightweight | NVL | NVL | — | — | — | DNF |

## Wrestling

| Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Final | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| David Aspin | Men's freestyle middleweight | Chimidiin (MGL) L Fall | Motegi (JPN) L Fall | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated |
| Barry Oldridge | Men's freestyle bantamweight | Darlev (YUG) L 0 – 24 | Hatziioannidis (GRE) L Fall | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated |

## Officials

* Team manager – Bill Holley
* Assistant team manager – D. M. Taylor
* Chaperone – Valerie Young
* Team doctor – Graeme Campbell
* Physiotherapist – Peter Stokes
* Attache – C. J. Adair
* Athletics
** Section manager – Dave Leech
** Coach – Arch Jelley
* Boxing section manager – Alan Scaife
* Canoeing section manager – Sandy Pigott
* Cycling
** Section manager – Neil Lyster
** Coach / mechanic – Wayne Thorpe
* Equestrian
** Section manager – Ian Nimon
** Trainer – Lockie Richards
** Groom – Karen Yorke
* Hockey
** Section manager – Tony Palmer
** Coach – Ross Gillespie
* Rowing
** Section manager – Kerry Ashby
** Coach (eight) – Rusty Robertson
** Coach / boatman – J. T. Reid
** Transport manager – Brian Heyward
* Sailing
** Section manager – Don St Clair Brown
** Meteorologist / boatman – Harry Kingham
* Shooting section manager – Ian Wright
* Swimming
** Section manager – Noel Smith
** Chief coach – Bert Cotterill
** Assistant coach – Duncan Laing
* Weightlifting section manager – Bruce Cameron
* Wrestling section manager – Keith Breeze