More medals for NZ: Commonwealth Games

Sunday, March 19, 2006 

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The following is how the medal table for New Zealand looked after the third day of competition for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, in Melbourne, Australia.

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2	3	5	10

New Zealand won six medals yesterday. Half of them were in the Women’s and Men’s triathlons.

In the Women's Individual Triathlon Sam Warriner won silver; followed closely by Andrea Hewitt who won bronze.

Bevan Docherty won silver in the Men's Individual Triathlon

A bronze in the Women's 50m Rifle Prone Pair is the 500th Commonwealth Games medal for New Zealand in the 76 year history of the games.

Yesterday’s Medals

Silver

• Samantha Warriner - Women's Individual Triathlon
• Bevan Docherty - Men's Individual Triathlon

Bronze

• Andrea Hewitt - Women's Individual Triathlon
• Juliet Etherington, Kathryn Mead - Women's 50m Rifle Prone Pair, Shooting
• Cameron Gibson - Men's 200m Backstroke, Swimming
• Peter Latham, Hayden Godfrey, Tim Gudsell and Marc Ryan - Men's Team Pursuit, Track Cycling
• Helen Norfolk, Alison Fitch, Lauran Boyle and Melissa Ingram - Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay, Swimming

Sources

• "Six medals for NZ on day three" — Radio New Zealand, March 19, 2006