News & Media
September 2016,
Press Releases
New Zealand Athletes Achieve Best Ever Performance at an Olympic Games
New Zealand athletes made history at the Rio Olympic Games winning 18 medals, a 38% increase on London 2012 and four above the Olympic target.
December 2015,
Press Releases
High Performance Sport NZ Investments Announced in Final Run Up to Rio
High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) has confirmed its 2016 investments into sports, as they enter the final run into the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In the media
- New Zealand finish with 36 Commonwealth Games medals but future hauls under threat
- Kiwis aiming high at equestrian world championships
- Willie Rickards announced as All Blacks Sevens Head Coach through to 2028
- Zoe Hobbs wins 100m Commonwealth Games gold in record time
- Lewis Clareburt completes double defence to win second gold
- Weightlifter Cameron McTaggart wins silver in 88kg final
- Para-swimmer Josh Willmer promoted to silver at Glasgow
- Lewis Clareburt wins NZ’s first gold in Glasgow
- Erika Fairweather claims her third medal of the Games
- Worn-out Hamish Kerr withdraws from Glasgow high jump