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Country/Region
  
New Zealand

Created
  
1911

Continental Association
  
ONOC

Code
  
NZL

Recognized
  
1919

Headquarters
  
Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand Olympic Committee

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (before 1994, The New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) is the body in New Zealand responsible for selecting athletes to represent New Zealand in the Summer and Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games.

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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.

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 colored version in 1994.

International Olympic Committee

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

  • Leonard Cuff (1894–1905), 1st, one of the founding members (also Australia)
  • Richard Coombes 2nd (1912–1919) (also Australia)
  • Arthur A. Marryatt 3rd (1919–1923)
  • Joseph Firth CMG 4th (1923–1927)
  • Lt-Col Bernard Freyberg VC, CMG, DSO 5th (1928–1930)
  • Cecil J. Wray 6th (1931–1934)
  • Sir Arthur Porritt Bt GCMG CBE 7th (1934–1967)
  • Sir Lance Cross CBE 8th (1969–1987)
  • Sir Tay Wilson KNZM OBE 9th (1988–2006)
  • Barbara Kendall MBE 10th (Oceania athletes' representative from 2005 to 2008)

    • Current International Olympic Committee (IOC) members are:

  • Barry Maister ONZM (2010–present)
  • Barbara Kendall MBE (2011–present)

    • Governance

    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. Since 2009, the president has been Mike Stanley.

    Presidents

  • Mike Stanley (2009–present)
  • Sir Eion Edgar KNZM (acting 2001–2003; elected 2003–2009)
  • John Davies MBE (active 2000–2001; formal but not acting 2001–2003)
  • Hon. Sir David Beattie GCMG GCVO KBE QSO QC (1989–2000)

    • References

    New Zealand Olympic Committee Wikipedia
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