Splash of colour
New Zealand mightn’t be a sporting powerhouse on the scale of, say, San Marino, but our athletes did us proud in Tokyo nevertheless.
The European microstate, a landlocked enclave in Northern Italy with a population of about 34,000, sent five athletes to the Tokyo Olympics; it took home three medals. New Zealand had to settle for the best per capita performance among nations with populations of at least one million.
The theme of our most successful Olympics could be “women on the water”: female athletes won six of our seven gold medals, with only the Black Ferns sevens team doing so
