Answer: Martin Crowe
Martin Crowe to many Kiwis was New Zealand's greatest ever cricketer. One momentous occasion he scored 299 runs in a test match before being dismissed. It was the highest score by any New Zealand cricketer at the time.
From Quiz: New Zealand Sport
Answer: 'Snow' Lupton
The race that stops a nation, certainly did that in New Zealand in 1983, when the Waverley Wonder, Kiwi, came from last on the turn, to storm home and win the cup.
Ritchie trained Bonecrusher
McKee trained Sunline
Dreaper was an Irish trainer who trained Arkle.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Greats
Answer: Auckland
Auckland's Eden Park had the ability to host such a variety of sports due to the cricket field being a temporary fixture. Whenever a particular sport required the use of the stadium the cricket pitch was either installed or was removed and taken into storage. Removable pitches are a feature of many modern sports stadiums, the Millennium Stadium in the Welsh capital of Cardiff being a good example. In addition to rugby union, Eden Park occasionally hosted rugby league matches and in the 1980s one of the most important matches in the league code was played at the venue.
From Quiz: The Historic Eden Park
Answer: 1982
The All Whites achievement of qualifying for the World Cup in Spain in 1982 is still regarded as one of the country's most memorable sporting moments. However, the All Whites were unsuccessful at the tournament, losing 5-2 against Scotland, 3-0 against the USSR, and 4-0 against the might of Brazil.
From Quiz: Great Kiwi Sporting Achievements
Answer: Athletics / Track & Field
Yvette won her Olympic gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics when she jumped 6.25 metres in the Long Jump. She held the long jump world record for 18 months in 1954 and 1955 with a distance of 6.29m.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Legends
Answer: Charisma
Mark Todd won gold in the 1984 Olympics at Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympics at Seoul. This combination also won bronze in 1988 in the teams three day event. Mark Todd rode Welton Greylag as part of the New Zealand team that won silver in the teams three day event at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Eye Spy II was the horse that Mark Todd rode to win bronze in the individual three day event in the 2000 Olympics at Sydney. He did not compete at Atlanta in 1996 due to injury to his horse.Kiwi was a race horse famous for winning the Melbourne Cup in 1983 coming from last to first down the home straight.
From Quiz: More New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: Harry Kerr
Harry Kerr won a bronze in the 3500 metre walk at the 1908 London Olympics. Anthony Wilding won a bronze in 1912 in the men's tennis singles. John Holland won bronze in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Jean Stewart also won bronze at the 1952 Olympics in the women's 100 metre backstroke event.
From Quiz: New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: Richie McCaw
All the answers played in both RWC championships. Richie McCaw led the All Blacks in 110 of the 148 tests he played for New Zealand's rugby team between 2001 and 2015. His accolades include World Rugby player of the year on three occasions and World Rugby player of the decade (2011-2020).
The 2011 RWC championship was hosted in New Zealand. The final on October 23, 2011, was played at Eden Park in Auckland between the All Blacks and France. In a tightly contested encounter, the New Zealand side emerged victorious by the narrowest of margins: 8-7. The 2015 RWC championship was held in England. Trans-Tasman rivals the All Blacks and Wallabies (Australia) met in the final at London's Twickenham Stadium on October 31, 2015. The final score was 34-17 to the All Blacks, the first time that a nation had retained the RWC trophy, the Webb Ellis Cup.
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From Quiz: Black, Silver and Gold: New Zealand Sport
Answer: Win back-to-back tournaments
The All Blacks have often been the number one team in the world and have proved it again by winning not only their third world cup and being the first team to do so, but retain the cup as defending titleholders. The All Blacks have beaten France in the final twice but not in 2015 (29-9 in 1987 and 8-7 in 2011). The first team to lose to Japan ain a World Cup game was Zimbabwe, 52-8 in the 1991 World Cup.
From Quiz: New Zealand Sport
Answer: Motorcycle Speedway
Ivan Mauger is the greatest speedway rider in New Zealands racing history. He won 6 World Championships in ten years (1968-69-70, 1972, 1977, 1979).
Ronnie Moore won 2 World Championships in the 1950s (1954 and 1959) and 4 NZ titles. Barry Briggs won 4 World Championships (1957-58, 1964, 1966).
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Greats
Answer: Commonwealth Games
The 1950 competition in Auckland was the last to be called the British Empire Games. A number of name changes, each progressively less imperialist, were made over the subsequent decades until the powers that be settled upon the Commonwealth Games.
Eden Park was the main stadium for the 1950 British Empire Games and the majority of the athletics events, including the revered 100m sprint, would have been contested there.
From Quiz: The Historic Eden Park
Answer: 2
Danyon Loader won two gold medals in the 200m and 400m men's freestyle events. In doing so, he became New Zealand's first swimming gold medallist since Malcolm Champion, who swam on a combined New Zealand/Australia team in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
From Quiz: Great Kiwi Sporting Achievements
Answer: Butterfly
Anthony Mosse competed in the 1988 Los Angeles and 1998 Seoul Olympics gaining a bronze in 200m butterfly in Seoul. He swam his way to two Commonwealth gold medals, an Olympic bronze and a world championship silver; his success resulted in a massive increase in the amount of people swimming competitively in New Zealand.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Legends
Answer: Kayaking
Ian Ferguson won gold in the K-1 500 metres, K-2 500 metres (with Paul MacDonald) and K-4 1000 metres (with Paul MacDonald, Granet Bramwell and Alan Thompson). He followed this up in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics with gold in the K-2 500 metres and silver in the K-2 1000 metres (both times with Paul MacDonald).
From Quiz: More New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: Malcolm Champion
Malcolm Champion was one member of the Australasian 4x200 metre relay swimming team at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Ted Morgan won gold in boxing at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Jack Lovelock won gold in the 1500 at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Norman Read won gold in the 50 kilometre walk at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
From Quiz: New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: NZ Warriors and Wellington Phoenix
While Rugby Union is the dominant football code in New Zealand, Rugby League has a strong presence with the New Zealand Warriors (formerly Auckland Warriors) taking on a national representation in the Australian National Rugby League competition since 1995. The national rugby league sides (Kiwis and Kiwiferns [women]) have managed to take a few titles off the Australian national sides (in Australia, league is more dominant than union) winning the World Cup in 2008 and winning the 2010 and 2014 titles in the five times the competition was run between 2009-2016 (Australia won the other three). The uniform is black with white highlights.
Soccer is popular in New Zealand but it is seen to be rather provincial with the Wellington area being the only region where it has consistently been the most dominant code of football. Wellington Phoenix FC plays in the Australian A-League, the only team from outside Australia.
The national soccer team are called the All Whites (Women - Football Ferns). They wanted to wear a black uniform to be consistent with other national teams but were not allowed as this was the referee's uniform colour. At least the nickname had a tie-in with other national teams. When the All Whites qualified for their second World Cup tournament in 2010, they played three matches for three draws, including 1-1 against Italy (the defending champions). They were the only team that was not beaten in the round-robin part of the competition.
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From Quiz: Black, Silver and Gold: New Zealand Sport
Answer: Black Ferns
The women's team the Black Ferns, like the All Blacks, are one of the top women's rugby teams in the world. They won four consecutive world cups 1998-2002-2006-2010 before being eliminated in 2014 (failed to make the final).
From Quiz: New Zealand Sport
Answer: Valerie Adams
Not only did Valerie Adams her second Olympic gold at London 2012, she had also won two Commonwealth Games gold medals (2006 and 2010) and three World championship gold medals (2007, 2009, 2011).
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Greats
Answer: Blues
The Blues were originally called the Auckland Blues but the name change reflected the fact that the team represented areas other than Auckland. The inaugural season of the Super Rugby competition took place in 1996 and was commonly referred to as the Super 12. The Blues, who at that time represented Auckland, Counties Manukau and Thames Valley, emerged as champions that year and successfully defended their title the following season.
In addition to making use of Eden Park, the Blues played some home fixtures at North Harbour Stadium in Albany and Okara Park in Whangarei.
From Quiz: The Historic Eden Park
Answer: Rugby Union (All Blacks)
30 of Whineray's 32 appearances were made as captain of the All Blacks. Out of those 30 games, he led the way to victory 23 times (4 losses, 3 draws). He played prop, scored two tries in All Black tests and had his test debut against Australia in Sydney on the 25 May 1957. The All Blacks won that game 25 - 11.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Legends
Answer: Light heavyweight
Kevin Barry controversially won his semi final bout over Evander Holyfield when his opponent was disqualified for punching after the bell. He was unable to box in the final due to injury.
From Quiz: More New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: Darcy Hadfield
Darcy Hadfield won a bronze for rowing in the single sculls. Harry Wilson competed in the 110 metre hurdles. George Davidson competed in the 100 metre sprint. Violet Walrond was New Zealand's first female competitor and swam in the 100 metre freestyle event.
From Quiz: New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: Richard Hadlee
Despite Allan Border's defiant 152 not out in the second dig, Australia lost by an innings and 41 runs.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Victories over Australia
Answer: 2
Danyon Loader (born in 1975) learned to swim in Dunedin, one of New Zealand's most southerly cities. He won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics (200m butterfly) and then two golds in Atlanta in 1996 (200m and 400m freestyle). The pool where he trained after winninng the medals had a big wall display saying "There's something in the water at Moana Pool. Pure Gold."
From Quiz: New Zealand Sport
Answer: Berlin
Jack Lovelock was born in New Zealand in 1910 and died in an accident in New York city in 1949. In 1933 he set a world record in the mile with a run of 4:07.6, and his run in Berlin in 1936 before an audience of 110,000 set a world 1500m record with a run of 3:47.8.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Greats
Answer: Rugby Union
Rugby union's Air New Zealand Cup was first contested in 2006 and the inaugural winners were Waikato. Waikato beat Wellington in the 2006 final and this would prove to be the first of four successive losses for Wellington at that stage in the competition. The 2007 Air New Zealand Cup was played at Eden Park and was won by the home team, Auckland. In 2010 the name of the competition was changed from the Air New Zealand Cup to the ITM Cup.
From Quiz: The Historic Eden Park
Answer: Peter Snell
Peter Snell also won the 800m in the 1960 Rome Olympics. Arthur Lydiard was a famous New Zealand track coach who coached Snell among others. Murray Walker is a former famous British Formula 1 commentator, and Sean Fitzpatrick is a former captain of the All Blacks.
From Quiz: Great Kiwi Sporting Achievements
Answer: Motorsport
Possum is famous in New Zealand and within motorsport for his success as a rally car driver. Possum tragically died on April 30, 2003 after he was involved in a serious crash 12 days earlier while inspecting the "Race to the Sky" track at Cadrona near Queenstown, NZ. He earned the nickname Possum when he swerved to avoid a possum and rolled his car as a result when he was a teenager. Possum was a seven-time Australian Rally Champion.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Legends
Answer: 5
Bruce and Barbara Kendall are brother and sister. They both competed in boardsailing. Bruce won bronze in 1984 and gold in 1988. Barbara won gold in 1992, silver in 1996 and bronze in 2000. Barbara also finished 5th in 2004.
From Quiz: More New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: 100 metres
This race is featured in the 1981 movie "Chariots of Fire".
From Quiz: New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: 1987
Australia lost to Wales in the playoff for third place 22-21.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Victories over Australia
Answer: Ball
Ki-o-rahi is a fast-paced ball sport played by two teams of seven on a circular field divided into concentric zones. The outer zone is known as Te Ao ("the world"), the middle zone as Te Roto ("the lake"), and the central zone as Te Motu ("the island"). "Ki" is the name of the small round ball used to play the game, which these days is generally made of soft foam. Points are scored by touching the boundary markers ("pou") and hitting a central target ("tupu").
Ki-o-rahi is similar to fast-paced Western games such as rugby and netball, which are very popular in New Zealand. The two teams are named "Kioma" ("ball-carriers") and "Taniwha" ("lake monsters"): Kioma accumulate points by scoring tries, and Taniwha by hitting the "tupu" with the ball. The rules of the game vary depending on the area of New Zealand in which it is played: they are decided before each match by a process called "tatu".
Believed to have been played by the Maori for centuries, the game is said to be based on the legend of Rahitutakahina and the rescue of his wife, Tiarakurapakewai - where it was used as a means to settle differences between two tribes. In 2005, ki-o-rahi made headlines when it was chosen by McDonald's as part of its "Passport to Play" programme to teach physical play activities from around the world to the students of 31,000 US primary schools.
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From Quiz: Black, Silver and Gold: New Zealand Sport
Answer: Brian McKechnie
The 1981 series of one day matches between New Zealand and Australia had the result of one win each. On the final ball of the third and final match of the series, New Zealand needed a 6 to draw. Greg Chappell, Australia's captain, instructed his brother Trevor to bowl underarm (along the gorund) for the final ball therefore making it impossible for New Zealand to hit a six. It was a legal play (at the time) but was very unsporting.
From Quiz: New Zealand Sport
Answer: Billiards
Clark McConachy was born in 1895 in Otago, New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Billiards Championship in 1915 and retained the title for his whole life. He developed into a very good player and was soon recognised as one of the world's best, along with Walter Lindrum and Joe Davis.
He was the first player to make two breaks of over 1,000 in consecutive matches and he achieved a personal best break of 1,943 against Joe Davis in 1932. A couple of years later, while playing Walter Lindrum, he made a break of 1,927. He won the World Billiards title in 1952 and kept it till 1969. Clark McConarchy passed away in 1980.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Greats
Answer: America's Cup
Team New Zealand's boat, nicknamed 'Black Magic', defeated American Dennis Connor's 'Young America' crew 5-0 off the coast of San Diego.
From Quiz: Great Kiwi Sporting Achievements
Answer: Equestrian
Mark Todd retired from Equestrian after the 2000 Sydney Olympics with a total of two golds and two bronzes in Eventing. He won the Badminton Horse Trials three times, and Burghley three-day event five times. He was voted "Rider of the 20th Century" by the International Equestrian Federation.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Legends
Answer: 3
Danyon Loader won silver in the 200 metre butterfly event at Barcelona in 1992. In 1996 at Atlanta he won gold in both the 200 metre and 400 metre freestyle events.
From Quiz: More New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: 1952 Helsinki
After registering two no jumps in the first two rounds of the final, Yvette Williams jumped 5.90 metres to qualify for the final three jumps. She jumped 6.24 metres at her fourth attempt to win gold.
From Quiz: New Zealand Olympic Medalists
Answer: Netball
Australia finished runner-up in that tournament, jointly with Trinidad and Tobago.
From Quiz: Kiwi Sporting Victories over Australia
Answer: Sir Russell Coutts
In San Diego 1995 the New Zealand boat known as Black Magic won the Louis Vuitton cup and then went on to win the America's Cup. It was skippered by Russell Coutts. Brad Butterworth was tactician on board and Sir Peter Blake was head of Team New Zealand.
From Quiz: New Zealand Sport
