New_Zealand_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics Knowpia

New Zealand at the
1988 Summer Olympics
New Zealand at the; 1988 Summer Olympics
IOC code	NZL
NOC	New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association
Website	www.olympic.org.nz
in Seoul
Competitors	83 (67 men, 16 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Ian Ferguson
Officials	61
Medals; Ranked 18th	Gold 3 Silver 2 Bronze 8 Total 13
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Other related appearances
	Australasia (1908–1912)

New Zealand competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 83 competitors, 67 men and 16 women, took part in 58 events in 16 sports.^[1] In addition, New Zealand sent four women to compete in Taekwondo, which was one of the Olympic Games' demonstration sports. Sports administrator Bruce Ullrich was New Zealand's Chef de Mission, after previously having had that role for the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games.^[2]

Medal tables edit

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Bruce Kendall	Sailing	Men's Division II	27 September
Gold	Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-2 500 m	30 September
Gold	Mark Todd	Equestrian	Individual eventing	2 October
Silver	Rex Sellers Chris Timms	Sailing	Tornado	27 September
Silver	Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-2 1000 m	1 October
Bronze	Paul Kingsman	Swimming	Men's 200 m backstroke	22 September
Bronze	Eric Verdonk	Rowing	Men's single sculls	24 September
Bronze	George Keys Ian Wright Greg Johnston Chris White Andrew Bird (cox)	Rowing	Men's coxed four	24 September
Bronze	Lynley Hannen Nikki Payne	Rowing	Women's coxless pair	24 September
Bronze	Anthony Mosse	Swimming	Men's 200 m butterfly	24 September
Bronze	John Cutler	Sailing	Men's Finn	27 September
Bronze	Paul MacDonald	Canoeing	Men's K-1 500 m	30 September
Bronze	Andrew Bennie Margaret Knighton Tinks Pottinger Mark Todd	Equestrian	Team eventing	2 October

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Canoeing	1	1	1	3
Sailing	1	1	1	3
Equestrian	1	0	1	2
Rowing	0	0	3	3
Swimming	0	0	2	2
Total	3	2	8	13

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	2	1	6	9
Female	0	0	1	1
Mixed / open	1	1	1	3
Total	3	2	8	13

Competitors edit

The following table lists the number of New Zealand competitors participating at the Games according to gender and sport.^[3]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	2	4	6
Canoeing	7	0	7
Cycling	12	1	13
Equestrian	6	2	8
Fencing	1	0	1
Gymnastics	0	1	1
Judo	2	–	2
Rowing	10	2	12
Sailing	11	2	13
Shooting	4	0	4
Swimming	5	2	7
Table tennis	2	0	2
Tennis	2	1	3
Weightlifting	1	–	1
Wrestling	2	–	2
Total	67	16	83

Archery edit

New Zealand's 1988 archery team included only one woman, veteran Ann Shurrock.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round						Round 1						Quarterfinal						Semifinal						Final						Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	30 m	50 m	60 m	70 m	Total	Rank	30 m	50 m	60 m	70 m	Total	Rank	30 m	50 m	60 m	70 m	Total	Rank	30 m	50 m	60 m	70 m	Total	Rank	30 m	50 m	60 m	70 m	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Ann Shurrock	Women's individual	324	293	302	298	1217	36	Did not advance																									36

Athletics edit

Track and road edit

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank^[i]	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anne Audain	Women's 10,000 m	32:10.73	12 q	—				32:10.47	11
John Campbell	Men's marathon	—						2:14:08	12
Christine McMiken	Women's 10,000 m	32:20.39	10	—				did not advance
Lorraine Moller	Women's marathon	—						2:37:52	33
Christine Pfitzinger	Women's 3000 m	9:01.30	9	—				did not advance

^ Ranks given are within the heat

Combined edit

Athlete	Event	100 m	Long jump	Shot put	High jump	400 m	110 m hurdles	Discus throw	Pole vault	Javelin throw	1500 m	Overall points	Rank
Simon Poelman	Men's decathlon	11.09 841 pts	7.08 833 pts	14.51 760 pts	2.03 831 pts	49.89 820 pts	14.78 876 pts	43.20 730 pts	4.90 880 pts	57.18 696 pts	4:28.54 754 pts	8021	16

Canoeing edit

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Grant Bramwell Brent Clode John McDonald Stephen Richards	Men's K-4 1000 m	3:10.27	5 R	3:11.27	3 Q	3:15.90	4	did not advance
Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Men's K-2 500 m	1:32.32	1 Q	—		1:33.81	1 Q	1:33.98
Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:20.44	1 Q	—		3:23.13	1 Q	3:32.71
Paul MacDonald	Men's K-1 500 m	1:41.65	2 Q	—		1:43.33	1 Q	1:46.46
Alan Thompson	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:48.10	4 R	3:46.20	1 Q	3:45.40	4 q	3:56.91	6

Cycling edit

Thirteen cyclists, twelve men and one woman, represented New Zealand in 1988.

Road edit

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Brian Fowler	Men's individual road race	4:32:56	75
Madonna Harris	Women's individual road race	DNF
Graeme Miller	Men's individual road race	4:32:46	8
Wayne Morgan	Men's individual road race	DNF
Brian Fowler Greg Fraine Paul Leitch Gavin Stevens	Men's team time trial	2:03:48.7	12

Track edit

Men's 1 km time trial

Athlete	Time	Rank
Tony Graham	1:05.744	7

Men's individual pursuit

Athlete	Qualification		Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Gary Anderson	4:41.83	8	Risi (SUI) W 4:41.25	Sturgess (GBR) L 4:42.82	did not advance		7

Men's team pursuit

Athlete	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Craig Connell Nigel Donnelly Andrew Whitford Stuart Williams	4:26.13	14	did not advance			14

Equestrian edit

Eventing edit

Rider	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping		Overall
Rider	Horse	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Andrew Bennie	Grayshott	Individual	52.20	8	85.60	21	5.00	23	162.80	20
Margaret Knighton	Enterprise	Individual	74.60	36	90.00	24	DNS		DNF
Tinks Pottinger	Volunteer	Individual	65.80	23	0.00	=1	0.00	=1	65.80	5
Mark Todd	Charisma	Individual	37.60	1	0.00	=1	5.00	=11	42.60
Andrew Bennie Margaret Knighton Tinks Pottinger Mark Todd	As above	Team	155.60	3	85.60	2	30.00	6	271.20

Jumping edit

Individual edit

Athlete	Horse	Qualifying				Final			Rank
Athlete	Horse	Round 1	Round 2	Total points	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total faults	Rank
Maurice Beatson	Jeferson Junior	43.50	16.00	59.50	48	did not advance
John Cottle	Ups & Downs	13.50	DNF			did not advance
Mark Todd	Bago	55.00	33.00	88.00	30 Q	12.00	did not advance
Harvey Wilson	Crosby	22.50	19.50	42.00	55	did not advance

Team edit

Athlete	Horse	Round 1		Round 2		Total	Rank
Athlete	Horse	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Total	Rank
Maurice Beatson Colin McIntosh Mark Todd Harvey Wilson	Jeferson Junior Gigolo Bago Crosby	52.25	12	44.75	10	97.00	12

Fencing edit

One male fencer represented New Zealand in 1988.

Athlete	Event	Round 1 pool	Quarterfinal pool	Semifinal pool	Final pool	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Martin Brill	Men's individual épée	Winter (FIN) L 4 – 5	Pusch (FRG) L 2 – 5	Mazzoni (ITA) W 5 – 3	Pantano (ITA) W 10 – 8	Shuvalov (URS) L 3 – 10	did not advance		7
		Tyshko (URS) L 0 – 5	Ma (CHN) W 5 – 2	Dessureault (CAN) W 5 – 3	Shuvalov (URS) L 9 – 10
		Birnbaum (AUT) W 5 – 1	Strohmeyer (AUT) W 5 – 4	Ma (CHN) W 5 – 2	Gerull (FRG) W 10 – 7
		Thomas (ARU) W 5 – 0	Turiace (ARG) W 5 – 4	Gaille (SUI) L 4 – 5	Gaille (SUI) W 10 – 5
		Tang (HKG) W 5 – 2	—	Fonseca (BRA) L 4 – 5	Strohmeyer (AUT) W 10 – 7

Gymnastics edit

Rhythmic edit

Women's individual all-around

Athlete	Qualifying						Final					Total	Rank
Athlete	Hoop	Rope	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Total	Rank
Angela Walker	9.200	9.300	9.100	9.350	36.950	=32	did not advance

Judo edit

Athlete	Event	Elimination pool			Repechage pool		Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Brent Cooper	Men's half-lightweight	Sène (SEN) W	El-Mamoun (MAR) W	Pawłowski (POL) L	Laats (BEL) W	Yamamoto (JPN) L	Did not advance	=5
Bill Vincent	Men's middleweight	Jani (CAN) W	White (GBR) L	Did not advance				=13

Rowing edit

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eric Verdonk	Single sculls	7:18.69	1 SA/B	Bye		7:11.98	3 FA	6:58.66
Greg Johnston Chris White Andrew Bird (cox)	Coxed pair	7:22.32	3 SA/B	DNS
Campbell Clayton-Greene Geoff Cotter Bill Coventry Neil Gibson	Coxless four	6:06.75	2 SA/B	Bye		6:06.60	4 FB	6:04.74	7
George Keys Ian Wright Greg Johnston Chris White Andrew Bird (cox)	Coxed four	6:03.35	3 SA/B	Bye		6:10.41	3 FA	6:15.78

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nikki Payne Lynley Hannen	Coxless pair	8:02.39	2 R	7:59.93	1 FA	7:35.68

Sailing edit

New Zealand had thirteen competitors in Seoul; eleven men and two women.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Net points	Final rank
John Cutler	Men's Finn	15.0	~~16.0~~	8.0	8.0	14.0	0.0	0.0	45.0
Simon Daubney Tom Dodson (helm) Aran Hansen	Soling	8.0	15.0	13.0	~~22.0~~	5.7	21.0	11.7	74.4	7
Peter Evans (helm) Simon Mander	Men's 470	5.7	14.0	17.0	~~24.0~~	3.0	13.0	10.0	62.7	6
Fiona Galloway (helm) Jan Shearer	Women's 470	~~22.0~~	10.0	17.0	19.0	13.0	13.0	11.7	83.7	9
Murray Jones (helm) Greg Knowles	Flying Dutchman	3.0	0.0	15.0	8.0	18.0	~~20.0~~	16.0	60.0	5
Bruce Kendall	Men's Division II	5.7	5.7	0.0	10.0	14.0	0.0	~~15.0~~	35.4
Rex Sellers Chris Timms (helm)	Tornado	~~16.0~~	5.7	0.0	8.0	11.7	0.0	10.0	35.4

Shooting edit

Men's 50 m rifle, prone

Athlete	Qualification rounds								Final rounds							Total	Rank
Athlete	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Total	Rank
Stephen Petterson	100	100	99	97	100	100	596	10	did not advance								10

Men's 50 m pistol

Athlete	Qualification rounds								Final	Total	Rank
Athlete	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Rank	Final	Total	Rank
Greg Yelavich	91	91	85	91	88	89	535	41	did not advance		41

Mixed skeet

Athlete	Qualification		Semifinal				Final	Total	Rank
Athlete	Score	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Rank	Final	Total	Rank
John Farrell	137	51	did not advance						51
John Woolley	143	=33	did not advance						=33

Swimming edit

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ross Anderson	Men's 100 m freestyle	52.33	36	did not advance
	Men's 100 m butterfly	56.31	25	did not advance
	Men's 200 m butterfly	2:02.40	20	did not advance
Anthony Beks	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:05.65	39	did not advance
Anthony Beks	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:27.26	42	did not advance
Sylvia Hume	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:05.81	25	did not advance
Sylvia Hume	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:21.55	21	did not advance
Paul Kingsman	Men's 100 m backstroke	57.80	19	did not advance
Paul Kingsman	Men's 200 m backstroke	2:02.20	7 Q	2:00.48 NR
Richard Lockhart	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:06.27	46	did not advance
Richard Lockhart	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:24.52	36	did not advance
Anthony Mosse	Men's 100 m butterfly	54.63	10 QB	54.63	10
Anthony Mosse	Men's 200 m butterfly	1:58.71	2 Q	1:58.28 NR
Sharon Musson	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:04.58	14 QB	1:04.17	15
Sharon Musson	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:17.47	13 QB	2:16.06	10
Paul Kingsman Anthony Beks Anthony Mosse Ross Anderson	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	3:48.93	11	did not advance

Table tennis edit

Athlete	Event	Pool stage										Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	W	L	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Barry Griffiths	Men's singles	Xu (CHN) L 0 – 3	Böhm (FRG) L 1 – 3	Birocheau (FRA) W 3 – 2	Chih (TPE) L 0 – 3	Maringgi (INA) L 2 – 3	Hosnani (MRI) W 3 – 1	Waldner (SWE) L 0 – 3	2	5	7	did not advance
Barry Griffiths Peter Jackson	Men's doubles	Waldner / Appelgren (SWE) L 0 – 2	Ding / Baer (AUT) W 2 – 0	Kim / Kim (KOR) L 0 – 2	Böhm / Rebel (FRG) L 0 – 2	Douglas / Andrew (GBR) L 0 – 2	Álvarez / Fermin (DOM) L 0 – 2	Chih / Chih (TPE) L 0 – 2	1	6	8	—	did not advance

Tennis edit

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Belinda Cordwell	Women's singles	Gomer (GBR) L 6–4 5–7 2–6	did not advance					=33
Kelly Evernden	Men's singles	Ivanišević (YUG) W 7–6 6–3 6–3	Mansdorf (ISR) L 4–6 6–3 1–6 5–7	did not advance				=17
Bruce Derlin Kelly Evernden	Men's doubles	—	Frana / Jaite (ARG) W 6–4 4–1 ret.	Cahill / Fitzgerald (AUS) L 7–6 4–6 2–6 6–3 1–6	did not advance			=9

Weightlifting edit

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Kevin Blake	Men's heavyweight I	NVL		—			DNF

Wrestling edit

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Final round	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Brent Hollamby	Men's bantamweight	Meña (PAN) W 12–4	Chen (CHN) L 4–14	Bye	Khaltmaa (MGL) L 4–19	Eliminated
Steve Reinsfield	Men's featherweight	Polky (GDR) L P1	Sarkisyan (URS) L 0–13	Eliminated

Demonstration sports edit

Taekwondo edit

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kirsten Demanser	Women's finweight	Chin (TPE) L SUP	did not advance		=5
Rosemary Wilson	Women's featherweight	Dolls (ESP) L PTS	did not advance		=5
Bronwyn Wilson	Women's middlerweight	Kim (KOR) L SUP	did not advance		=5
Susan Graham	Women's heavyweight	Franssen (CAN) L PTS	did not advance		=5

References edit

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
^ "Bruce Ullrich". University of Canterbury. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand Sailing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2017.

[4] Ranks given are within the heat

[sports-reference-1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2017.

[Ullrich_bio-2] "Bruce Ullrich". University of Canterbury. Retrieved 5 May 2017.

[3] New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics

[5] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand Sailing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2017.

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