The following is a list of New Zealand sportspeople.
Basketball Steven Adams – basketball player Pero Cameron – basketball player Sean Marks – basketball player Dan Shamir (born 1975) - Israeli professional basketball coach, lives in Auckland
Golf Michael Campbell – golfer Sir Bob Charles – champion golfer Ryan Fox - golfer Lydia Ko - champion golfer Danny Lee - golfer Phil Tataurangi - golfer Steve Williams – caddy
Motorsports Chris Amon – Formula One and sports car driver Bruce Anstey - motorcycle road racer Brendon Hartley – Ex Formula One Driver and Two time WEC winner including 24 of Le mans Win Possum Bourne – rally driving Barry Briggs - motorcycle speedway rider Nick Cassidy - Formula E Driver Simon Crafar - motorcycle road racer Graeme Crosby - motorcycle road racer Scott Dixon – Six-time IndyCar champion, 2008 Indy 500 Champion Mitch Evans - Formula E Driver Denny Hulme – 1967 Formula One champion Chris Lange - rally driver Liam Lawson - Formula One driver Ivan Mauger – six-time motorcycle speedway world champion Bruce McLaren – Formula One and CanAm driver Scott McLaughlin - touring car driver, IndyCar Driver Stefan Merriman - enduro rider Steve Millen – sports car and off-road truck driver Burt Munro – motorcycle speedway and land speed record holder Greg Murphy – touring car driver Chris Pither – touring car driver Aaron Slight - motorcycle road racer Ben Townley - World Champion, Motocross Ted Tracey - Speedway racing driver Shane van Gisbergen - touring car driver Cole Davies - Motocross and Supercross racer
Netball
Rugby league
Rugby union
Soccer
Cricket Main articles: List of New Zealand Test cricketers, List of New Zealand ODI cricketers, List of New Zealand Twenty20 International cricketers
See also:New Zealand national cricket team, New Zealand women's national cricket team
Craig Auckram Brendon McCullum Kane Williamson Ross Taylor Richard Hadlee Shane Bond Martin Crowe Trent Boult Lockie Ferguson Tim Southee James Neesham Bradley-John Watling Ajaz Patel James Franklin Scott Styris Corey Anderson Tom Latham Colin de Grandhomme Jacob Oram Stephen Fleming Daniel Vettori Craig McMillan Liz Perry Shane Bond
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 Eliza McCartney - pole vaulter, Olympic bronze medallist 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 and Bluff to Cape Reinga 1964; first person 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
Miscellaneous Margaret Jane Briggs, show-ring rider Christine Jensen Burke – mountaineer Helen Clarke - field hockey player Cheree Crowley – professional wrestler Dame Susan Devoy - squash player 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 Edmund Hillary – mountaineer Mark Hunt - mixed martial artist Precious McKenzie – weightlifter (born in South Africa) Mark Todd – equestrian Sarah Ulmer – cyclist Michael Walker – jockey Sarah Walker – BMX rider Tony Wilding – tennis player
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