A new home for The Sports Hall of Fame

The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame exhibition in Dunedin is now closed while we prepare for an exciting move north. Later this year the exhibition will re-open inside the Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge, marking the start of an exciting new chapter for visitors and fans
Search our list of inductees below or filter to a specific sport using the list on the left.

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Our Inductees

Don Oliver

Don Oliver was a weightlifter of prodigious strength and competitive endurance, and also a highly popular figure, as evidenced by his captaincy of New Zealand teams at the Commonwealth Games in 1966 and the Mexico Olympics in 1968.

Sporting Spotlight

Stan Lay

(1906 - 2003)

His first sporting love was cricket and Lay played for Taranaki against the 1928 Australian and 1930 MCC teams.
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