List of New Zealand sportspeople

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The following is a list of New Zealand sportspeople.

Rugby union

Motorsports

• Chris Amon – auto racing
• Bruce Anstey - motorcycle racing
• Possum Bourne – rally driving
• Scott Dixon – auto racing
• Denny Hulme – world champion, auto racing
• Ivan Mauger – six time Motorcycle speedway world champion
• Bruce McLaren – racing driver
• Steve Millen – auto racing
• Burt Munro – Motorcycle speedway land speed record holder
• Greg Murphy – auto racing
• Chris Pither – auto racing
• Ben Townley - World Champion, Motocross

Track and field

• Valerie Adams – shotputter, four-time Olympic Champion
• David Ambler – 100m, 200m sprints
• Anne Audain – runner
• Hamish Carter – triathlete
• Rod Dixon – runner
• Murray Halberg – runner
• Jack Lovelock – runner
• Arthur Lydiard – running coach
• Lorraine Moller – runner, won Boston Marathon
• Dick Quax – runner
• Allison Roe – runner, won Boston and New York City Marathons 1981
• Peter Snell – runner, three times Olympic Champion
• John Walker – runner, Olympic champion
• Nick Willis – runner, Commonwealth champion, Olympic silver medallist
• John Young - ultra distance runner; first person to run from Wellington to Auckland 1962 Bluff to Cape Reinga 1964; first man to run across the Nulabhour Plain in Australia 1968

Watersports

• Jo Aleh – world champion and Olympic champion sailor
• Sir Peter Blake – yachtsman
• Trent Bray – world champion swimmer
• Nathan Cohen - world champion and Olympic champion rower
• Russell Coutts – yachtsman, Olympic Champion
• Caroline Evers-Swindell - champion rower
• Georgina Evers-Swindell - champion rower
• Ian Ferguson – kayaker
• Danyon Loader – double olympic champion swimmer
• Jonathan Winter – world champion swimmer

Basketball

• Steven Adams – basketball player
• Pero Cameron – basketball player
• Sean Marks – basketball player

Golf

• Michael Campbell – golfer
• Sir Bob Charles – champion golfer
• Lydia Ko - champion golfer
• Danny Lee - golfer
• Steve Williams – caddy

Soccer

Rugby league

Miscellaneous

• Christine Jensen Burke – mountaineer
• Bob Fitzsimmons – world boxing heavyweight champion (born in UK, raised in NZ)
• Tom Fyfe – mountaineer and mountain guide
• Tony Garea – former WWWF/WWF professional wrestler
• Sir Richard Hadlee – cricketer
• Sir Edmund Hillary – mountaineer
• Precious McKenzie – weightlifter (born in South Africa)
• Wynton Rufer – soccer player, voted Oceania Player of the Century
• Mark Todd – horseman
• Sarah Ulmer – cyclist
• Irene Van Dyk – netball player (born in South Africa)
• John Walker – runner
• Michael Walker – jockey
• Sarah Walker – BMX rider
• Tony Wilding – tennis player
• Casey Williams – netball player (current captain)
• Adine Wilson – netball player(former captain)