Joe McManemin

Joseph de Valley McManemin (2 January 1923 – 5 August 2014) was a New Zealand athletics coach and sports administrator.

Biography Born in Auckland in 1923, McManemin was educated at Auckland Grammar School

A sprinter, McManemin was a member of the Old Grammarians' Club in Auckland. He became involved in athletics administration, and was elected to the committee of the Auckland Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association in 1944. He went on to become a sprint coach, mentoring New Zealand representatives including Doreen Porter, Valerie Morgan and Maurice Rae.

McManemin went to the 1960 Rome Olympics as the New Zealand athletics team manager and was the general manager of the New Zealand team at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. He was chef de mission of the New Zealand team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. With Norman Coop, he was co-founder of the 1990 Games Promotion Committee, which successfully bid in 1984 to stage the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. McManemin then went on to chair the organizing committee for that event. He was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service in the 1990 New Year Honours.