New Zealand competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
Norman Read was not originally selected, but (with Bill Bailey) went to Australia. Reed won the Australian 50 km championship, was then selected, and won a gold medal.
Famous quotes containing the words zealand and/or summer:
“Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among New Zealand aborigine children and inner-city kids on the playgrounds of Philadelphia.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers, under summer trees./By chilling autumn waters, in the frosts/Of supercilious winter—all my days/I’ll have as mentors those reproving ghosts.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)