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IOC code | NZL |
NOC | New Zealand Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
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Australasia (1908–1912) |
This is a list of flag bearers who have represented New Zealand at the Olympics. [1]
Flag bearers carry the New Zealand flag and, since 2004, wear Te Māhutonga cloak at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Arthur Porritt, Stuart Blakely and David Aspin are the only New Zealand Olympians to have carried the flag at two different Olympic opening ceremonies.
This is worn by New Zealand's Olympic flag bearer at the opening ceremony of Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The Māori feather cloak is a traditional textile that offers the distinguished wearer additional mana through its connection with the previous sportspeople who have worn it. It was first worn to the games by Beatrice Faumuina at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games after being presented by the Māori Queen Dame Te Atairangikaahu in a ceremony where it also adorned some of the previous flag bearers including Harold Nelson, Ian Ferguson, Mark Todd, Barbara Kendall and Blyth Tait. Te Māhutonga translates from Māori to represent the constellation of the Southern Cross.
•competed under New Zealand Olympic Committee flag
Year | Season | Flag bearer | Sport |
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1988 | Summer | Bruce Kendall [10] | Sailboarding |
1992 | Summer | Barbara Kendall | Sailboarding |
1996 | Summer | Danyon Loader [10] | Swimming |
1998 | Winter | Angela Paul [11] | Luge |
2000 | Summer | Rob Waddell [12] | Rowing |
2002 | Winter | Claudia Riegler [13] | Alpine skiing |
2004 | Summer | Sarah Ulmer [14] | Cycling |
2006 | Winter | Sean Becker [15] | Curling |
2008 | Summer | Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell [16] | Rowing |
2010 | Winter | Ben Sandford [17] | Skeleton |
2012 | Summer | Mahé Drysdale [18] | Rowing |
2014 | Winter | Jossi Wells [19] | Freestyle skiing |
2016 | Summer | Lisa Carrington [20] | Canoe sprint |
2018 | Winter | Zoi Sadowski-Synnott [21] | Snowboarding |
2020 | Summer | Valerie Adams [22] | Athletics |
2022 | Winter | Nico Porteous [23] | Freestyle skiing |
2024 | Summer | Finn Butcher , Lisa Carrington [24] | Canoe slalom, canoe sprint |
New Zealand competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
During the Parade of Nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, held beginning at 6:00 PM PST on February 12, 2010, 82 athletes bearing the flags of their respective nations led their national delegations as they paraded into BC Place Stadium in the host city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Te Aue Takotoroa Davis, also known as Daisy Davis, was a key figure in the Māori renaissance in the field of weaving. Born and raised near her ancestral marae Tokikapu in Waitomo, of Ngati Uekaha and Maniapoto descent, she received early grants from the Council for Maori and Pacific Arts and Department of Labour to fund her work.
New Zealand competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012. The country won 17 medals in total, including six gold medals, and finished twenty-first on the medals table.
Dame Lisa Marie Carrington is a flatwater canoeist and New Zealand's most successful Olympian, having won a total of eight gold medals and one bronze medal. She won three consecutive gold medals in the Women's K‑1 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as gold in the same event at the 2011 Canoe Sprint World Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she also won a gold medal in the K‑2 500 metres, with Caitlin Regal, and as an individual in the K‑1 500 metres. At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Carrington defended her titles in the K‑1 500 metres and K‑2 500 metres event and also won the K‑4 500 metres event. Carrington equalled Danuta Kozák's record of winning all three K-1, K-2, K-4 events, over 500 metres, at one Olympics.
New Zealand competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014. The team consisted of 15 competitors in five sports. Only three members had prior Olympic Games experience.
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During the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the flag bearers of 207 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) arrived into Maracanã Stadium. The flags of each country were not necessarily carried by the same flag bearer as in the opening ceremony.
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