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Our Inductees

Sandra Edge

Sandra Edge
Sandra Edge's meritorious mark on New Zealand netball began in 1982 when she captained the national under 21 team at the age of 19.

Eight, 1971-72

Eight, 1971-72
The success of the New Zealand rowing eight at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the same eight that had won the European championship the year before, was one of those wins that seem to transcend sport.

Eight, 1982

Eight, 1982
New Zealand has had golden moments in world rowing and 1982 was one of them when the eight won the world title on the lake at Lucerne in Switzerland.

Jimmy Ellis

Jimmy Ellis
Ellis in a career that lasted from 1924 until 1961 set records that today’s jockeys struggle to match.

Tom Ellison

Tom Ellison
Tom Ellison was a remarkable figure in the early days of New Zealand rugby and one of the most enduringly influential the game has known.

Sporting Spotlight

Cecil Matthews

(1914 - 1987)

There could have been no greater praise for Matthews than to be dubbed “the Nurmi of the Empire” after the great Finn, Paavo Nurmi, who dominated middle and long-distance running in the 1920s.
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