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 You searched for Athletics. Inductees are shown below...Our Inductees Anne Audain Anne Audain is a fighter. Read more Bill Baillie Bill Baillie was one of a small group of New Zealand runners whose footsteps on the world’s tracks in the 1950s and 60s trailed clouds of glory. Read more Marise Chamberlain Marise Chamberlain was undoubtedly an athlete ahead of her time. Read more Rod Dixon Dixon was one of the most versatile athletes New Zealand has had, running at an elite level over such diverse distances as 1500 metres and the marathon, as well as cross-country. Read more 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. Read more Murray Halberg Sir Murray Halberg is one of the outstanding figures in New Zealand sport. Read more Don Jowett Don Jowett became the only New Zealand track sprinter to win a gold medal at a major games when he won the 220 yards at the Empire Games in Vancouver in 1954. Read more Harry Kerr He earned his niche in New Zealand sporting history by becoming the first New Zealander to win an Olympic medal. Read more Stan Lay His first sporting love was cricket and Lay played for Taranaki against the 1928 Australian and 1930 MCC teams. Read more Jack Lovelock Lovelock was, in many ways, an athlete ahead of his time, bringing a more scientific and psychological approach to his sport than had hitherto been seen. Read more Arthur Lydiard Arthur Lydiard was renowned as an innovative, trend-setting athletics coach, particularly of middle distance and distance runners. Read more Barry Magee For all Barry Magee's achievements both as an athlete and as a coach, one event stands out: an event that he did not win. Read more Cecil Matthews 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. Read more Les Mills Les Mills is one of the most durable and competitive field event athletes New Zealand has had, competing in four Olympic and four Commonwealth Games between 1958 and 1972. Read more Lorraine Moller When it comes to commitment to and passion for a sport, Lorraine Moller sets the standards. Read more New Zealand Men's Crosscountry, 1975 New Zealand's win in the world crosscountry championships in Morocco in 1975 was one of the greatest, if little-known, performances of New Zealand athletics. Read more Arthur Porritt Arthur Espie Porritt, first Baron of Wanganui and Hampstead, led a life of achievement as a sportsman, a sports administrator, a surgeon, a health administrator, a writer and as the first New Zealander to become governor-general. Read more Dick Quax From 1500 metres to the marathon, Dick Quax was one of the outstanding New Zealand and world athletes through the 70s. Read more 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 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 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 Billy Savidan New Zealand had some great runners in the 20s and 30s — Lovelock pre-eminent, Randolph Rose, Cecil Matthews and Savidan. Read more Joe Scott For more than a decade, Joe Scott was regarded as the finest competitive walker in the world – when the sport was popular and known as pedestrianism – and could lay claim to being New Zealand’s first world champion. Read more George Smith A remarkably versatile sportsman, Smith had international success as an athlete, a rugby player and a league player. Read more Peter Snell Three-time Olympic champion and world record-holder, Snell is one of New Zealand’s greatest sports achievers, and some say the greatest. Read more Dick Tayler Richard Tayler or Dick Tayler, whatever he was called he will forever be linked with the first day of competition at the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch in 1974. Read more John Walker The first awareness most New Zealanders had of John Walker was at the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch in 1974 when he chased home Filbert Bayi of Tanzania in the 1500 metres, which Bayi won in world record time. Read more Roy Williams Roy Williams had a distinguished athletics career of nearly 20 years, during which he won the national decathlon title 11 times between 1956 and 1970. Read more Yvette Williams In the days when women had few events in track and field, Yvette Williams seemed to compete in them all. Read more Val Young If Yvette Williams can justifiably be labelled New Zealand’s best woman athlete, Val Young runs her a close second. Read more