18 Jul 2024

NZ Sporting History: Tony Ineson

From Afternoons, 2:25 pm on 18 July 2024

Tony Ineson is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Tony was the captain of the 1976 gold medal-winning hockey team. His brother Chris was a New Zealand representative at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Tony was elected, with the rest of the gold medal-winning team, to the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

38 years on and the 1976 team are still New Zeakland's only Olympic hockey medallists.

A rare photo of the gold medal winning men's hockey team taken in Montreal in 1976. Photo: