New Zealand Olympic Committee

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New Zealand Olympic Committee
New Zealand Olympic Committee logo.png
Country/RegionFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Code NZL
Created1911
Recognized1919
Continental
Association		 ONOC
Headquarters Auckland, New Zealand
President Liz Dawson
Secretary General Nicki Nicol
Website olympic.org.nz

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (before 1994, The New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) is both the National Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Association in New Zealand responsible for selecting athletes to represent New Zealand in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. [1]

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While a founder member of the International Olympic Committee, New Zealand did not send its own team to compete until the Games of the VI Olympiad (Antwerp 1920), though at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics New Zealand and Australia competed as "Australasia". New Zealand has sent a team to every Summer Olympic Games since 1920, though only a token team of four went to the 1980 Summer Olympics at Moscow due to the boycott. New Zealand first competed at the Winter Olympics in 1952, but did not compete in the 1956 or 1964 Winter Olympics.

New Zealand has sent a team to every Commonwealth Games since the first in 1930, which was held in Canada and then called the British Empire Games. They are held every four years, in between the Olympic Games. [1]

Membership

The NZOC (New Zealand Olympic Committee) is a member of the International Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation.

Emblem

The NZOC emblem consisting of a depiction of a silver fern (New Zealand's sporting emblem) superimposed on the Olympic Rings was created as a marketing symbol in 1979 (which was initially in all-white on a black background). It was first publicly used at an Olympic Games at the Games of the XXII Olympiad (Moscow 1980, in which observers thought that the fern was an olive branch of peace)—New Zealand competed under this flag to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It went to its current coloured version in 1994.

The headquarters of the New Zealand Olympic Committee in Parnell, Auckland. New Zealand Olympic Committee.jpg
The headquarters of the New Zealand Olympic Committee in Parnell, Auckland.

International Olympic Committee

The NZOC (New Zealand Olympic Committee) is the National Olympic Committee for New Zealand. The NZOC was founded in 1911 and recognised by the IOC in 1919. Former New Zealand members of the International Olympic Committee are:

Current International Olympic Committee (IOC) members are:

Governance

Dame Patsy Reddy and David Gascoigne with the NZOC board in 2020 New Zealand Olympic Family lunch 041-2.jpg
Dame Patsy Reddy and David Gascoigne with the NZOC board in 2020

The NZOC is governed by a board that is headed by a president. Five of the board members are elected by the general assembly. The two IOC members plus an athletes' representative complete the board. [2] Since November 2022, the president is Liz Dawson. [3]

Presidents

See also

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