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Kōrero: Swimming

New Zealand's first Olympic diver

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New Zealand's first Olympic diver

Rebecca Ewert performs a dive at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. It was the first time that New Zealand was represented in diving at the Olympics. By 2012 New Zealand divers had also participated in the 1984 and 1992 Olympics. They had taken part in, and won medals at, most Empire and Commonwealth Games since 1930.

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New Zealand Olympic Museum – He Pataka Taumahekeheke, New Zealand Olympic Committee

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John McBeth, Swimming – Other swimming sports, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40224/new-zealands-first-olympic-diver (accessed 1 July 2026).

He kōrero nā John McBeth, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012, updated 27 January 2015.