The torch is owned by former volunteer golf coach Steve Nisbet (centre), of Millers Flat, who carried it for about 400m through Queenstown before the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Due to a glitch in the system, he said he only had to return the gas cannister and so was able to keep the torch, unlike others who also carried it.
The approximately 85 junior pupils at Roxburgh Area School had been learning about the Olympics and Mr Nisbet thought it was a good time to share his experience with them.
He gave the children a chance to re-enact the 2000 relay.
Hestill has no idea why he was nominated to carry the torch.
"The only thing I can think of is that I taught golf".
In 2000, the flame touched down in New Zealand in Queenstown and was carried down a ski slope by New Zealand Winter Olympian Annelise Coberger before being carried by several other people, including then Queenstown mayor Warren Cooper, before Mr Nisbet ran uphill with it towards the airport at Frankton.
"But it didn't feel like I was running uphill. I was running on adrenaline. There were cop cars and bikes and people lining the street clapping and cheering."
He passed the torch to former New Zealand Olympic team doctor and then chef de mission David Gerrard.
From Queenstown, the flame went to Wellington and Auckland and on to Australia.
Mr Nisbet will also be taking the torch and his story to Millers Flat School in August.
