Oslo 1952
New Zealand attended its first Winter Olympics in Norway, represented by four alpine skiers and captained by Sir Roy McKenzie, who was injured and didn't compete.
Annette Johnson finished 39th in the women's giant slalom - the team's highest placing.
Herbert Familton, Bill Hunt, Annette Johnson (alpine skiing)
Squaw Valley 1960
Four skiers represented New Zealand in California, with flagbearer Bill Hunt returning from the previous Winter Games team eight years earlier.
Cecilia Womersley finished 27th in the women's giant slalom, which again provided the team's highest placing.
Sam Chaffey, Bill Hunt, Trish Prain, Cecilia Womersley (alpine skiing)
Grenoble 1968
Seven skiers again made up the NZ contingent in France, with women's slalom exponent Anne Reid the most successful, placing 30th in her event.
Margot Blakely, Michael Dennis, Murray Gardner, Thomas Huppert, Robert Palmer, Anne Reid (alpine skiing)
Sapporo 1972
Skiers Ross Ewington and Chris Womersley formed a small NZ team in Japan, where Womersley finished 35th in giant slalom.
Ross Ewington, Chris Womersley (alpine skiing)
Innsbruck 1976
Five skiers represented New Zealand in Austria, with Sue Gibson achieving its highest placing so far, with 19th in the women's slalom.
Robin Armstrong, Stuart Blakely, Sue Gibson, Brett Kendall, Janet Wells (alpine skiing)
Lake Placid 1980
Skiing again dominated the NZ contingent in New York, with flagbearer Stuart Blakely returning from the previous Games. Scott Kendall (slalom) and Anna Archibald (downhill) both finished 26th in their respective events.
Anna Archibald, Stuart Blakely, Fiona Johnson, Scott Kendall, Mark Vryenhoek (alpine skiing)
Sarjevo 1984
New Zealand again relied on apline skiing for representation in Yugoslavia and Markus Hubrich set a new standard with 14th in the men's slalom.
The team also featured teenager Simon Wi Rutene - who would become the country's first real Winter Olympics star - in the first of four Games appearances, as well as brother-sister combo Bruce and Christine Grant.
Bruce Grant, Christine Grant, Markus Hubrich, Mattias Hubrich, Kate Rattray, Simon Wi Rutene (alpine skiing)
Calgary 1988
Skiers Simon Wi Rutene, Mattias Hubrich and Kate Rattray returned four years later to Canada, but for the first time, New Zealand included bobsledders in its nine-strong team. Lex Peterson and decathlete Peter Henry finished 20th in the two-man event.
Wi Rutene placed 17th in the men's slalom, while cross-country Madonna Harris become the first athlete to represent New Zealand at both Winter and Summer Games. She contested the cycling road race at Seoul later the same year, and also competed internationally in 400m hurdles and basketball.
Mattias Hubrich, Kate Rattray, Simon Wi Rutene (alpine skiing), Peter Henry, Lex Peterson, Owen Pinnell, Blair Telford (bobsled), Madonna Harris (cross-country skiing)
Albertville 1992
Forty years after debuting at the Winter Olympics, New Zealand finally won its first medal, with skier Annelise Coberger finishing second in the women's slalom in France.
Her silver medal was also the first podium finish for a southern hemsiphere athlete at the Winter Games and saw her take out the Halberg Supreme Award.
New Zealand also finished just outside the medals in speed skating - the first time Kiwi racers had feature at the Games. Mike McMillan finished fourth in the individual 1000m, then combined with Tony Smith, and Andrew and Chris Nicholson for fourth in the 5000m relay.
Nicholson became the second Kiwi to contest both Winter and Summer Olympics, when he cycled at Barcelona later that year.
Annelise Coberger, Sim Wi Rutene (alpine skiing), Mike McMillan, Andrew Nicholson, Chris Nicholson, Tony Smith (speed skating)
SILVER - Coberger, slalom
Lillehammer 1994
The Winter Olympics cycle changed to avoid falling on the same years as the Summer Games, but after the euphoria of its first medal two years earlier, New Zealand experienced only utter failure in Norway.
Both Annelise Coberger and Claudia Riegler crashed out in their slalom event, Simon Wi Rutene met similar fates in his slalom, giant slalom and Super G. None of the speed skaters progressed past heats, while the relay team missed out on the medal race and were disqualified in the 'B' final.
Only Wi Rutene's 20th in the combined skiing avoided a full whitewash.
Annalise Coberger, Claudia Riegler, Simon Wi Rutene (alpine skiing), Mike McMillan, Andrew Nicholson, Chris Nicholson, Tony Smith (speed skating)
Nagano 1998
While only eight in number, the Kiwis fielded probably their most diverse contingent so far, across six sports, with Claudia Riegler the only alpine skier on a team previously dominated by them.
Five-time Coast to Coast multisport champion Richard Ussher showed his versatility, competing in freestyle skiing, while Pamela Bell became our first Olympic snowboard athlete in Japan.
Claudia Riegler (alpine skiing), Alan Henderson, Angus Ross (bobsled), Kylie Gill, Richard Ussher (freestyle skiing), Angie Paul (luge), Pamela Bell (snowboarding), Chris Nicholson (speed skating)
Salt Lake City 2002
Claudia Riegler produced her most sucessful result from three Olympics, finishing 11th in the slalom in Utah, while Liz Couch matched that placing in the women's skeleton.
Todd Haywood, Claudia Riegler, Jesse Teat (alpine skiing), Mark Edmonds, Steve Harrison, Alan Henderson, Angus Ross (bobsled), Angie Paul (luge), Mark Jackson (speed skating), Liz Couch (skeleton)
Turin 2006
New Zealand sent its biggest continget yet of 17 to Italy, with Kiwi curlers making their Olympic debuts. In fact, curler Sean Becker was a controversial choice as closing ceremony flagbearer - an honour usually bestowed on the best-performed athlete - after his team finished a winless last in competition.
That choice probably should have favourited skeleton racer Ben Sandford, who placed 10th in his specialty event.
Nicola Campbell, Erika McLeod, Mickey Ross (alpine skiing), Matt Dallow, Alan Henderson, Aaron Orangi, Angus Ross (bobsled), Sean Becker, Lorne Depape, Warren Dobson, Hans Frauenlob, Dan Mustapic (curling), Louise Corcoran, Ben Sandford (skeleton), Kendall Brown, Mitchell Brown, Juliane Bray (snowboarding)
Vancouver 2010
Sarah Murphy became New Zealand's first biathlon representative in Canada, while Ben Sandiford was again the best Kiwi performer, finishing 11th in the men's skeleton.
Tim Cafe, Ben Griffin (alpine skiing), Sarah Murphy (biathlon), Catherine Calder, Ben Koons (cross-country skiing), Mitchey Greig (freestyle skiing), Shane Dobbin, Blake Skjellerup (speed skating), Iain Roberts, Ben Sandford, Tionette Stoddard (skeleton), Julian Bray, Kendall Brown, Mitch Brown, James Hamilton, Rebecca Sinclair (snowboarding)
Sochi 2014
Freestyle skiing emerged as the highlight of the NZ team effort in Russia, with the three Wells brothers - Beau-James, Byron and Jossi - leading the way.
Jossi Wells finished just off the medal podium in halfpipe, with Beau-James two spots back in sixth, Janina Kuzma placed fifth in the women's event.
Shane Dobbin finished seventh in the 10,000m speed skating final, while skeleton racer Ben Sandford was 20th in his third Games.
Adam Barwoord (alpine skiing), Janina Kuzma, Lyndon Sheehan, Beau-James Well, Byron Wells, Jossi Wells, Ann Wilcox-Silfverberg (freestyle skiing), Katharine Eustace, Ben Sandiford (skeleton), Shelly Gotlieb, Stefi Luxton, Christy Prior, Rebecca Sinclair, Rebecca Torr (snowboarding), Shane Dobbin (speed skating)
Pyeongchang 2018
Twenty-six years after its first Winters Olympics medal, New Zealand managed two on the same afternoon, when freestyle skier Nico Porteous and snowboarder Zoi Sydowski-Synnott grabbed bronze within hours of each other in Korea.
Both 16, they became our youngest Olympic medallists, beating swimmer Danyon Loader, 17, from the 1992 Barcelona Games.
The 21-strong contingent is still the biggest NZ team, with 18 named for Beijing.
Beau-James Wells finished one spot behind Porteous in the halfpipe, speed skater Peter Michael was a place off the podium over 5000m, and the skating pursuit team of Michael, Shane Dobbin and Reyon Kay lost their bronze-medal race to the Netherlands.
Carlos Garcia-Knight finished fifth in men's snowboard slopestyle to cap the Kiwis' most successful result at the Winter Olympics.
Adam Barwood, Willis Feasey, Britt Hawes, Janina Kuzma, Alice Robinson (alpine skiing), Finn Bilous, Miguel Porteous, Nico Porteous, Jamie Prebble, Beau-James Wells, Byron Wells, Jackson Wells (freestyle skiing), Rhys Thornbury (skeleton), Duncan Campbell, Carlos Garcia-Knight, Zoi Sydowski-Synnott, Rakai Tait (snowboarding), Shane Dobbin, Reyon Kay, Peter Michael (speed skating)
