WELLINGTON, Aug 12 (NNN-RNZ) – The New Zealand Olympic team is celebrating its most successful ever Olympic Games, with the team finishing with 20 medals made up of 10 golds, seven silvers and three bronzes, the country’s Olympic committee said, today.
The success sees New Zealand sitting at 11th on the medal table, which eclipses the previous best of eight golds won at the Los Angeles 1984, and is equal to the 20 medals won at Tokyo 2020, the committee said.
There were 204 athletes from 23 sports representing New Zealand at the Games.
Already, the New Zealander with the most Olympic gold medals, canoeist Lisa Carrington, added another three golds to her collection in Paris, taking her overall count to a staggering eight golds and one bronze, according to the committee statement.
Medals came from across nine sports with podium finishes from athletics, canoe sprint, canoe slalom, golf, rowing, rugby sevens, sailing, track cycling and triathlon, it said.
Carrington and another gold medalist, Finn Butcher, a slalom canoeist, carried the flag of New Zealand at the closing ceremony.– NNN-RNZ
