2008 Summer Paralympics / Participant (New Zealand)

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New Zealand took 30 athletes in seven sports at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part. In addition to the athletes, nine other people, including trainers, doctors and supervisors, accompanied the team.

The flag bearer when the team moved in was wheelchair rugby player Sholto Taylor .

Medals

Medal table

Medal Tally New Zealand
space sport Gold medal - Olympic champion Silver medal - 2nd place Bronze medal - 3rd place total
1 Cycling 1 - - 1
2 swim - 1 - 1
athletics - 1 - 1
Total 1 2 0 3

Medalist

Gold medal - 1st place gold

Surname sport competition
Paula Tesoriero Cycling 500 m time trial women

Silver medal - 2nd place silver

Surname sport competition
Sophie Pascoe swim 100 m butterfly women
Kate Horan athletics 200 m women

Participants by sport

Logo boccia Boccia

Women

  • Kerri Bonner
  • Amanda Slade

Men

  • Henderikus Dijkstra
  • Greig Jackson
  • Jeremy Morriss
  • Liam Sanders
  • Maurice Toon

Logo athletics athletics

Women

  • Jessica Hamill
  • Kate Horan (200 m women: silver Silver medal - 2nd place)

Men

  • Terry Faleva'ai
  • Tim Prendergast
  • Matt Slade

Logo powerlifting Powerlifting (bench press)

Men

  • George Taamaru

Logo cycling Cycling

Women

  • Annemarie Donaldson
  • Annaliisa Farrell
  • Jayne Parsons
  • Paula Tesoriero (500 m time trial women: gold Gold medal - 1st place)
  • Fiona Southorn

Logo wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby

Men

  • Dan Buckingham
  • Tim Johnson
  • David Klinkhamer
  • Curtis Palmer
  • Sholto Taylor
  • Gerry Tinker
  • Jai Waite
  • Adam Wakeford

Logo shooting shoot

Men

  • Michael Johnson

Logo swimming swim

Women

  • Sophie Pascoe (100 m butterfly women: silver Silver medal - 2nd place)

Men

  • Cameron Leslie
  • Daniel Sharp

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2008 New Zealand Paralympic Games Team . Paralympics New zealand , September 11, 2008, archived from the original on September 10, 2008 ; accessed on May 1, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
  2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 7, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Summer Paralympics list of participants ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 9, 2008)
  4. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 7, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )