Search our list of inductees below or filter to a specific sport using the list on the left. Filter Inductees by Category Choose a sporting category View all inductees AdministrationAthleticsAviationBadmintonBasketballBilliardsBowlsBoxingCanoeingCricketCyclingDisabled sportEquestrianGolfHarness racingHockeyJetboatingMotorsportMountaineeringMultisportNetballRowingRugby LeagueRugby UnionShearingSkiingSoccerSoftballSports broadcastingSquashSwimmingTennisThoroughbred racingWeightliftingWoodchoppingWrestlingYachting Close Categories Find an inductee by name Reset search Our Inductees Norman Read For older New Zealanders, the lasting image of the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 is of the smiling face of Norman Read as he strode into the Melbourne Cricket Ground to win the 50km walk, one of two gold medals won by New Zealanders in Melbourne. Read more Daniel Reese Regarded as the father of cricket in New Zealand, he was the first truly international cricketer to be produced by New Zealand. Read more John Reid A batsman, a bowler and sometimes a wicketkeeper, Reid could lay claim with Sir Richard Hadlee to being New Zealand cricket’s greatest allrounder. Read more Eve Rimmer Eve Rimmer had been a school long jump recordholder and sprint champion before a car crash at the age of 15 left her a paraplegic. Read more Rusty Robertson In word association tests, people could think of a sport and think automatically of a coach, as if the two were one and the same. Read more Jeff Robson It seemed that if there was a racket sport, Jeff Robson could be expert at it. Read more Allison Roe Allison Roe was many things to many people during her stunning athletics career, but she was best known in New Zealand and internationally for winning the famed Boston and New York Marathons in the same year, 1981. Read more Randolph Rose Though he rarely competed internationally and never raced at Olympic or Empire Games, Randolph Rose could lay claim to being New Zealand’s best-known athlete in the 1920s. Read more Sir Donald Rowlands Don Rowlands had at least two careers in the sport he graced: one as a top-level competitor and the other as an administrator and organiser without peer. Read more Wynton Rufer When the great soccer players of New Zealand are being discussed, one name unanimously is thrust to the fore. Read more Lesley Rumball Lesley Rumball, or Lesley Nicol as she was for much of her glittering career, played top-level netball for more than a decade and she was the first to play a hundred games for New Zealand. Read more Philip Rush Regarded as too slow to be a competitive pool swimmer, Rush turned to endurance swimming and became one of the best there has been. Read more Mike Ryan Mike Ryan was a remarkable marathon runner and among the long list of internationally acclaimed marathoners from New Zealand, he is acknowledged as the most accomplished. Read more