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Alexis King

Her career high singles ranking is No. 343 (achieved on July 7, 2008), a ranking which gave her a direct entry into the 2008 Ordina Open – Women's Singles Tournament, where she lost in the first round to New Zealander Marina Erakovic.

Hans Frauenlob

Hans Frauenlob (born November 22, 1960) is a New Zealander curler originally from Barrie, Ontario.

Oecusse District

In the 1970s and 1980s, New Zealander anarchist Bruce Grenville began a hoax, claiming to have founded the sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno.


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1966 Formula One season

Although both Jack Brabham and his team mate, New Zealander Denny Hulme both retired from the season opening Monaco Grand Prix (won by Jackie Stewart in his BRM), Brabham with their Oldsmobile based Repco engine caught the rest of the teams on the hop with its speed and reliability.

2008 Tour de Vineyards

The men's race was eventually won by New Zealander Jeremy Yates, while fellow New Zealander Serena Sheridan took out the woman's title.

A1 Team New Zealand

Prior to Super Nova's involvement, the car was run by West Surrey Racing, a British organisation run by New Zealander Dick Bennetts which fields the Team RAC cars in the British Touring Car Championship.

Buggin' with Ruud

Buggin' with Ruud is a television show of 13 x 60min episodes that follow the adventures of Dutch-New Zealander Ruud Kleinpaste, an entomologist.

Churchward

Joseph Churchward (1933 -), Samoan New Zealander graphic designer and typesetter

Fifth Avenue Mile

The winners at the most recent edition in 2013 were New Zealander Nick Willis and American Jennifer Simpson.

Forgotten Silver

The film also shows fragments of an epic Biblical film supposedly made by McKenzie in a giant set in the forests of New Zealand, and a 'computer enhancement' of a McKenzie film providing clear evidence that New Zealander Richard Pearse was the first man to invent a powered aircraft, several months prior to the Wright Brothers.

George Oywello

In the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, Oywello won a gold medal in the heavyweight competition beating New Zealander, Bill Kini in the final.

Hayley Peirsol

She trained under former World Champion Siri Lindley in Santa Monica, California with teammates Mirinda Carfrae (2010 Ironman World Champion), Jenny Fletcher and New Zealander Samantha Warriner.

Ian Woodall

American journalist Jon Krakauer, who was a member in New Zealander Rob Hall's commercial Everest expedition in 1996, was extremely critical of Woodall's personality and behavior in his best-selling book Into Thin Air.

John Dawson Dewhirst

Some time in July 1978, while visiting a friend in the eastern Malaysian town of Kuala Terengganu—on the slow road from Japan back to England—26 year-old Dewhirst met Canadian Stuart Glass and New Zealander Kerry Hamill, co-owners of a little Malaysian bedar (traditional, double-ended wooden boat) named Foxy Lady.

Long Island, Bahamas

In recent years, competitive freedivers have sought out Dean's Blue Hole as a unique dive site, hosting both world records (most notably by New Zealander William Trubridge) and one world championship (in 2009).

Marcus O'Sullivan

In addition to his ties to American record holder Bob Kennedy, O'Sullivan has coached elite professional runners such as Canadian indoor world silver medalist Carmen Douma-Hussar, and New Zealander Adrian Blincoe.

Mi-Sex

They were soon signed to the Australian division of CBS Records by the label's then A&R manager/House producer Peter Dawkins, himself an expatriate New Zealander who is best known for his productions with another former NZ group based in Australia, Dragon.

Monte Barrett

Barrett fought New Zealander Shane Cameron on 5 July 2012 with the winner becoming the number one contender to fight NZPBA title holder Sonny Bill Williams.

Norman Gordon

Gordon became the oldest-ever Test cricketer on 23 March 2011, when he surpassed New Zealander Eric Tindill, who died on 1 August 2010, approximately four months before his 100th birthday.

Paul Oestreicher

He retired from the Cathedral in 1998, becoming its Canon Emeritus and moving to Brighton, where he lives with his second wife, the New Zealander Barbara Einhorn, a professor at the University of Sussex.

Paula Morris

Her father is a New Zealander and her mother is English; the family’s tribal affiliations are Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Whātua.

Peter Lever

Both were in evidence when he poleaxed New Zealander Ewen Chatfield, whose life was saved by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage at Eden Park, Auckland.

Smeltz

Shane Smeltz (born 1981), New Zealander (association) footballer

Southern Star Abbey

He approached Gethsemene Abbey, Kentucky (thinking that they might be interested because Thomas Merton, a monk of that abbey, was the son of a New Zealander, Owen Merton).

The Aurora Group

The 2007 keynote address was delivered by New Zealander Georgina Beyer, the world's first transsexual Mayor and Member of Parliament.

The Children of Huang Shi

The film has been criticized for ignoring the role of Rewi Alley, a Communist New Zealander celebrated in China's revolution.

Tim Jerks

2010 he was a coach of this crew likewise, before it was replaced from the New Zealander Shane Rufer.

Tocker

Annie Constance Tocker (1889–1980), New Zealander librarian, Methodist deaconess, nurse and child welfare officer