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<strong>ANNUAL</strong> <strong>REPORT</strong> 2012<br />

PERFORMANCE FOR 2011/12<br />

33<br />

OUTCOME 3: MORE NEW ZEALAND WINNERS ON THE WORLD STAGE<br />

2011/12 was arguably <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>’s most successful<br />

high performance year to date, with 22 athletes<br />

and teams securing top three placings at world<br />

championships or pinnacle events across Olympic<br />

disciplines.<br />

Our athletes continued to deliver at the Olympic<br />

Games in London in July and August 2012, with<br />

<strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> exceeding the target of 10 or more<br />

medals in winning an impressive 13 medals. This<br />

resulted in <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> ranking 15th on the gold<br />

medal table and equal 18th on the total medal<br />

table. <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> ranked 4th in medals per capita<br />

behind Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica,<br />

whose medals all came in athletics whereas <strong>New</strong><br />

<strong>Zealand</strong> achieved medals in 6 disciplines. In addition<br />

<strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> athletes and teams posted 24 4th to<br />

8th place finishes, and 35 9th to 16th place finishes.<br />

Athletes continued this success at the Paralympics,<br />

winning 17 medals, including 6 gold medals, which<br />

remarkably put them 1st in terms of medals per capita.<br />

That success was the result of a six-year strategy<br />

which focused on investment in targeted sports,<br />

a focus HPS<strong>NZ</strong> is set to continue with the recent<br />

launch of its 2012-20 strategy and with the benefit<br />

of recent increases in government investment.<br />

In 2011/12 <strong>Sport</strong> <strong>NZ</strong> invested $53.9m into high<br />

performance sport, including $31m into NSOs for<br />

delivery of their high performance programmes, and<br />

$7.4m in Performance Enhancement Grants (PEGs)<br />

for elite athletes. A further $1.5m was invested in<br />

technology and innovation to give Kiwi athletes a<br />

competitive edge.

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