New Zealand Deaf Sports Team: XVIth World Games for the Deaf

A booklet released by the New Zealand Deaf Amateur Sports Association formally announcing the New Zealand team for the 16th World Games for the Deaf to be held in Christchurch 1989. The booklet contains photographs of selected players, location and their sports (athletic, badminton, cycling, basketball, football, table tennis, volleyball, swimming, shooting, tennis and wrestling), with a sports timetable. The New Zealand team was the largest ever to represent the country at a World Games for the Deaf event.

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Alexander Folomu

Alexander Folomu

Andie Vowles

Bernie Clews

Brent Macpherson

Brent Macpherson

Chris Blum

Chris Tottenham

Chris Tottenham

Christine Ryder

Christine Ryder

Clive Morgan

Denise Godman

Doug Croskery

Eddie Hokianga

Eric Coppage

Fetuao Ualesi

Gillian Ramsay

Janet Watt

Jeff Went

John Lavell

John Ooteman

Judith Kinaston

Judith Kinaston

Karim Baradi

Kaz Witko

Kelly Quirke

Kerry Titcombe

Kevin Lawrence

Kevin Pivac

Kim Robinson

Lorraine Butler

Lorraine Butler

Lyndon Malcolm

Malcolm Clausen

Malcolm Clausen

Margaret Coutts

Margaret Coutts

Martin Abela

Michael Lynch

Murray Kirk

Nadia Baradi

Nicki Morrison

Norman Norris

Pam Croskery

Penny Went

Peter (Popeye) Berry

Peter (Popeye) Berry

Peter Downie

Polly Fechney

Pollyanna Ferguson

Pollyanna Ferguson

Ripeka Bird

Robert Cameron

Roger Strong

Ross Freemantle

Ross Freemantle

Royce Flynn

Shona McGhie

Stephen Jourdain

Stephen Jourdain

Susan Hamilton

Susie Ovens

Suzanne Hanson

Tony Kuklinski

Tony McGill

Tony Walton

Victoria Green

Wayne Knowsley

William Tindall

William Tindall

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