Dave Norris

David Stanley Norris (born 14 December 1939) is a former New Zealand athlete who specialised in the long jump and triple jump.

Biography Norris became New Zealand national champion in the triple jump at the age of 17 years-old in 1957, becoming the youngest New Zealand male national champion in an athletics event, a record that stood until beaten by a 15 year-old Sam Ruthe in 2025.

Norris competed at five British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1958 to 1974. At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he won the silver medal in the men's long jump. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff he had won the bronze medal in the triple jump. At the 1960 Summer Olympics he competed in both the long jump and triple jump. Norris won a total of 28 national titles and broke 11 records in jumping and hurdling events over his career.

Norris also won the British AAA Championships title at the 1958 AAA Championships.

Norris also played 31 games of basketball for New Zealand. He was later the chief executive of North Harbour Basketball in Auckland.

After retiring from competitive athletics in 1978, Norris worked as a coach. He spent most of his working life as a school teacher in the Auckland area, teaching at Avondale College, Waiuku College and Kelston Boys' High School, before becoming deputy principal at Rangitoto College and then principal of Glenfield College.