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New Zealand competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the country's twenty-fifth 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.
Before this, at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics, New Zealand and Australian athletes competed together in a combined Australasia team. New Zealand has also participated in most Winter Olympic Games since 1952, missing only the 1956 and 1964 Games. The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) is the National Olympic Committee for New Zealand.
New Zealand Olympic medallists' success for New Zealand at the Olympics is often considered to be notable due to the relatively small population of the country (5.34 million as of June 2024). Being located in the remote South Pacific , New Zealanders needed to endure long sea voyages to attend the early Olympics.
Michaela Blyde of Team New Zealand holds off Ariana Ramsey of Team USA to score her team's third try during the women's rugby sevens semifinal on Day 4 of the Olympics in Paris at Stade de France.
New Zealand riders qualified for one women's quota place in BMX at the Olympics, as a result of the nation's ninth-place finish in the UCI BMX Olympic Qualification Ranking List of 1 June 2021. [25] The New Zealand Olympic Committee nominated the BMX rider Rebecca Petch to occupy the slot for the rescheduled Games on 17 June 2021. [20]
New Zealand competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. [1] [2] The New Zealand team consisted of 15 athletes—nine men and six women—who competed in five sports. [3] Selection of the New Zealand team was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC). [4]
New Zealand has competed in all of the Commonwealth Games since the first in 1930, and has won a total of 656 medals including 159 gold.. The New Zealand Olympic Committee (known as The New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association prior to 1994) is the body in New Zealand responsible for selecting Athletes to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games.
He became the first skeet shooter to win three gold medals in Olympic history having previously won in 2008 and 2012. [26] The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method.