1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (New Zealand)
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New Zealand took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital Rome with 37 athletes, 33 men and 4 women, and eleven officials.
Medals
With two won gold and a bronze medal by the New Zealand team finished 14th in the medals table .
gold
- Peter Snell - 800 meters
- Murray Halberg - 5,000 meters
bronze
- Barry Magee - Marathon
Participants by sport
athletics
Men
- Murray Halberg
- Jeff Julian
- Barry Magee
- Leslie Mills
- Dave Norris
- Ray Puckett
- Norman Read
- Barry Robinson
- Donal Smith
- Peter Snell
Women
Cycling
-
Warwick Dalton
- Track cycling
hockey
Men
- John Abrams , James Barclay , Phillip Bygrave , John Cullen , Ross Gillespie , Anthony Hayde , Noel Hobson , Ian Kerr , Murray Mathieson , Guy McGregor , Mervyn McKinnon , Kevin Percy , Bill Schaefer , Bruce Turner
rowing
Men
sailing
Men
Weightlifting
Wrestling
-
Fredrick Thomas
- Freestyle
horse riding
-
Adrian White
- Show jumping
fencing
-
Brian Pickworth
- foil
- Sword
- saber
Web links
- New Zealand Olympic Team from 1960 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960 - The Official Report of the Organizing Committee . (PDF (25 MB))LA84 Foundation,accessed on September 2, 2014(English).