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Sarah Walker is an Olympic BMX rider.  In the 2008 season Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Rounds, Walker won seven races, came second in one race and didn’t race two races.  She was ranked number one…

Sarah Ulmer is the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling gold medal, which she won in the 3km individual pursuit at the 2004 Athens Olympics setting a world record. After the 2004 Olympics,…

Robert played over 50 games for the Tall Blacks.  Internationally he competed in the men’s tournament at the 2000 Olympic Games and in the 2002 FIBA world cup where New Zealand came fourth.

In 1998 at the age of 23 Rob Waddell became the Single Sculls World Champion, retaining his title the following year before claiming a gold medal in the same discipline at the Sydney Olympics in…

Richard Tonks was a rower and champion coach.  In 1970 he rowed for Otago in Dunedin and was able to earn a place on the national team in 1971.  By 1972 he was stroking the…

Richard George Myers was a 1970s rugby player and All Black.  A loose forward, Myers played for Leamington RFC in Cambridge and is the only All Black to have played for the club. He represented…

Pam Buckingham was a 1970s squash player.  She was one of New Zealand’s most accomplished female players.  She won a national junior title and then, as Pam Buckingham and later Pam Guy, won five national…

Nicola started her international rowing career in the women’s eight, but her first international medal was in the coxless four at the Munich World Rowing Cup in 2001. Nicola paired with Juliette Haigh in the…

Nathan Twaddle is a World Champion and Olympic rower.  He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, in the coxless pair rowing with his partner George Bridgewater and won a bronze medal. He rowed…

Sir Mark Todd is among New Zealand’s most celebrated sportsmen with two Olympic gold (Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988) and three bronze medals (Seoul 1988, Sydney 2000 and London 2012), and every other major…