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

• Valerie Morgan
• Valerie Sloper
• Jennifer Thompson
• Beverly Weigel

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

• James Hill

sailing

Men

• Helmer Pedersen
• Murray Rae
• Ralph Roberts
• Ron Watson

Weightlifting

• Don Oliver

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).