F - New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame - Where champions live on

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Bruce Farr

Bruce Farr

Bruce Farr is New Zealand’s best-known yacht designer and could also lay claim to being the world’s best-known – or even the best.

Rita Fatialofa

Rita Fatialofa

Rita Fatialofa played netball and softball for New Zealand.

Beatrice Faumuinā

Beatrice Faumuinā

No New Zealander had been acclaimed a winner at the world athletics championships until Thursday, August 7 1997, at the Olympic Stadium in Athens. That was when Beatrice Faumuinā threw the discus further than anyone else and was crowned world champion.

Ian Ferguson

Ian Ferguson

When Ian Ferguson first competed at an Olympic Games in 1976 and even again when he was one of the tiny team in Moscow in 1980, few would have seen him as one of New Zealand’s greatest sportsmen.

Sean Fitzpatrick

Sean Fitzpatrick

Sean Fitzpatrick played more tests for the All Blacks than anyone else, captained them more than anyone else.

Bob Fitzsimmons

Though born in England, Fitzsimmons learned his boxing in Timaru and was always regarded as a New Zealand boxer.

Grant Fox

Grant Fox was a prolific points scorer and astute tactician for Auckland and the All Blacks during the 80s when both were dominant.

Sporting Spotlight

Barrie Devenport

(1935 - )

The challenge, to be the first in recorded history, to swim Cook Strait was likened to other sporting challenges such as Roger Bannister’s first sub-four minute mile and Sir Edmund Hillary’s conquest of Everest.

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