Jack Beatson
New Zealand's only gold medal in the 2000 Olympics was won by Rob Waddell in men's single sculls rowing.
Softball was introduced as an Olympic medal sport for women in 1996. The United States won the gold medal at those Olympic Games held in Atlanta. As of now, softball is scheduled to be discontinued as an Olympic sport after the 2008 Games in Beijing.
Bowling
Trampolining.
Hamish Carter won the gold medal in Athens, 2004; he finished 26th in Sydney, in 2000. The triathlon was introduced as an Olympic sport, in 2000, in Athens.
Athletics at the 1896 Games in Athens.
That was tennis at the 1920 Games in Antwerp. Ichiya Kumagai won the silver medal.
The first Olympic medal was awarded in 1988, but taekwondo was a demonstration sport. Taekwondo became a medal sport in 2000; however, they also hand out medals at the world championships, and the first world championships were in 1972.
Badminton is the official sport of Indonesia. Indonesia has won a Gold medal since the sport was first introduced in the Olympic Games.
Rugby is not an Olympic sport. The last Olympics where rugby was a medal sport was the 1924 Games in Paris.
Ice dancing first became a medal sport in the winter olympics of 1976.
Poltroon was awarded the individual bronze medal at the 1980 alternate Olympic Games. The rider of Poltroon was the first woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport.