NZ Sporting History: Tony Ineson

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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.