New Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games


New Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games was represented by a team of 69 competitors and 13 officials, including 18 athletes, 15 rowers, eight swimmers and divers, and seven each of boxers, cyclists and wrestlers. Selection of the team for the Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association. New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was Jim Leckie. The New Zealand team finished fifth on the medal table, winning a total of 25 medals, five of which were gold.
New Zealand has competed in every games, starting with the British Empire Games in 1930 at Hamilton, Ontario.

Medal tables

MedalNameSportEvent
[|Athletics]Men's 880 yards
AthleticsMen's 3 miles
AthleticsMen's 6 miles

Ernie Jury
Alec Robertson
Bill Whittaker		Lawn bowlsMen's four

Lance Macey		Lawn bowlsMen's pairs
AthleticsMen's javelin throw
[|Boxing]Men's welterweight
[|Cycling]Men's road race
Lawn bowlsMen's singles

George Burns
Jim Clayton
Albert Hope
John Rigby		RowingMen's coxed four
[|Wrestling]Men's lightweight
WrestlingMen's heavyweight

Graham Quinn
Alan Sayers
Harold Tyrie		AthleticsMen's 4 x 440 yards relay
AthleticsMen's 1 mile
AthleticsWomen's high jump
AthleticsMen's hammer throw
AthleticsWomen's 80 m hurdles
BoxingMen's featherweight
CyclingMen's sprint

John Charters
Oswald Denison
James Gould
Gus Jackson
Les Pithie
Cyril Stiles
William Stodart
Rangi Thompson		RowingMen's eight

Robert Smith		RowingMen's double sculls
RowingMen's single sculls
SwimmingWomen's 440 yards freestyle
WrestlingMen's featherweight
WrestlingMen's welterweight

Competitors

The following table lists the number of New Zealand competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
SportMenWomenTotal
Athletics13518
Boxing77
Cycling77
Diving011
Lawn bowls77
Rowing1515
Swimming437
Wrestling77
Total60969

Athletics

Track


Field

Boxing

Cycling

Road

;Men's road race

Track

;Men's 1000 m sprint
;Men's 1 km time trial
AthleteTimeRank
George Giles1:17.39
Roy Taylor1:16.77
Ron Ulmer1:16.66

;Men's 10 miles track race

Diving

Lawn bowls

Rowing

AthleteEventRank
Bob SmithMen's single sculls
Gus Jackson
Bob Smith		Men's double sculls
John Rigby
Kenneth Boswell
Albert Hope
Jim Clayton
George Burns 		Men's coxed four
Les Pithie
Oswald Denison
John Charters
Howard Benge
Gus Jackson
Cyril Stiles
Rangi Thompson
James Gould
William Stodart 		Men's eight

Percival Stowers and Cliff Johnson accompanied the team as emergencies, but did not compete.

Swimming


Wrestling

Officials

  • H McCormick: Chef de Mission
  • Dolph Kitto: Deputy Chef de Mission
  • B R McKernan: Athletics coach
  • F Hughes: Boxing sport manager
  • H L Grant: Cycling manager
  • A Whitten: Lawn Bowls manager
  • E Petty: Lawn Bowls assistant manager
  • Herbert Ayers: Rowing coach
  • Allen Hale: Rowing sport manager
  • E C Isaacs: Swimming sport manager
  • A Craig: Wrestling coach
  • J Creeke: Wrestling sport manager
  • E G Sutherland: Chaperone