New Zealand has won its 100th medal in Olympic competition. Hayden Meikle looks back over the century of success.
First medal
Harry Kerr won bronze in the 3500m walk in London in 1908. He was part of an Australasian team in a vastly different Olympics spread out over six months. The Taranaki man had previously served a two-year stand-down after competing as a professional.
Three of New Zealand's 100 Olympic medals - swimmer Malcolm Champion and tennis star Anthony Wilding won the others, in 1912 - came as part of the combined team. The first medal won by the stand-alone New Zealand team was Darcy Hadfield's rowing bronze in 1920.
First gold medal
Champion was the sole New Zealander in the Australasian 4x200m freestyle relay team that won in Stockholm in 1912. The first genuine New Zealand gold medallist was Ted Morgan, who overcame a badly damaged left hand (he was a southpaw) to win the welterweight boxing title in Amsterdam in 1928. The first female gold medallist was Dunedin's Yvette Williams, who won the long jump in Helsinki in 1952.
Twenty-fifth medal
The coxless four's silver in Munich in 1972.
Fiftieth medal
Bruce Kendall's boardsailing gold in Seoul in 1988.
Seventy-fifth medal
We'll call it a dead heat. Boardsailers Barbara Kendall and Aaron McIntosh clinched bronze on the same day in Sydney in 2000.
Hundredth medal
Blair Tuke and Peter Burling claimed silver in sailing's 49er class in London.
Youngest medallist
Men: Danyon Loader (17 years, 100 days, silver in swimming at 1992 Barcelona Olympics).
Women: Jean Stewart (21 years, 219 days, bronze in swimming at 1952 Helsinki Olympics).
Both Loader and Stewart were from Dunedin.
Oldest medallist
Men: Mark Todd (56 years, 153 days, bronze in team eventing in London).
Women: Vicky Latta (45 years, 43 days, bronze in team eventing at 1996 Atlanta Olympics).
Coldest medallist
Annelise Coberger became New Zealand's first - and, to date, only - Winter Olympic medallist when she won silver on the Albertville slopes in 1992.
Multiple medallists
5 - Ian Ferguson (canoeing), Paul MacDonald (canoeing), Mark Todd (equestrian).
4 - Blyth Tait (equestrian).
3 - Danyon Loader (swimming), Peter Snell (athletics), Barbara Kendall (sailing), Simon Dickie (rowing).
2 - Dick Joyce (rowing), Alan Thompson (canoeing), Valerie Adams (athletics), Mahe Drysdale (rowing), Caroline Evers-Swindell (rowing), Georgina Evers-Swindell (rowing), Bruce Kendall (sailing), Rex Sellers (sailing), Chris Timms (sailing), Bevan Docherty (triathlon), Trevor Coker (rowing), Dudley Storey (rowing), Lindsay Wilson (rowing), Ross Collinge (rowing), Athol Earl (rowing), Tony Hurt (rowing), Vicky Latta (equestrian), Andrew Nicholson (equestrian), Hayden Roulston (cycling)Most successful OlympicsBy medal count: Seoul 1988 (13, including three gold), Los Angeles 1984 (11, including eight gold), London 2012 (10, including three gold, and counting), Barcelona 1992 (10, including one gold), Beijing 2008 (nine, including three gold), Atlanta 1996 (six, including three gold).
By the sports
Athletics 21, rowing 21, sailing 17, equestrian 10, canoeing 8, swimming 7, cycling 6, boxing 3, triathlon 3, hockey 1, shooting 1, tennis 1, skiing 1.
Most emotional medal
The 1972 rowers winning the glamour eight and bawling their eyes out when, for the first time, God Defend New Zealand was played at an Olympic ceremony.
Most unexpected medal
It seems hard to believe now but Peter Snell was a rank outsider in the 800m in Rome in 1960.
Most dramatic medal
Jack Lovelock winning the 1500m - his "perfect race" - in front of Hitler in Berlin in 1936.
(Sources: New Zealand Olympic Committee, The Games and Black Gold, available from the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame)
