Sport

Kayakers on fire at nationals

Canoe sprints by Sally Cameron Poverty Bay Kayak Club racked up a huge medal haul at the National Canoe Sprint Championships on Lake Karapiro last week — with 28 of them gold. Three days of racing brought together all the clubs and New Zealand...

Scored . . . and sent off

A goalscorer’s celebration was judged to have gone too far and caused the player to be sent off in Eastern League first division football last Saturday. Xavier Priestley, a central midfielder with Gisborne Thistle Youth A, scored five minutes...

Jugs brimming as clubs mark 50ths

As two of the province’s golf clubs celebrate 50th anniversaries over the weekend, another will be the hotspot in the race for men’s interclub domination. Māhia started two days of 50th jubilee commemorations yesterday, while Tahunga marks its...

Unbeaten Feilding too strong for GBHS

Gisborne Boys’ High School v Feilding High School is always hard on the rugby field, and always a beauty. This season’s instalment at Elwood Park, Waipatu, Hastings saw Feilding triumph yesterday 35-7. Feilding went into the clash with Gisborne...

Off to the Masters: Gisborne golfer wins $50,000 Magnolia Experience for two

Gisborne golfer Vance Richardson didn’t believe it when a voice on the other end of the phone told him he had just won a $50,000 trip to the 2025 US Masters. “I thought it was a load of crap. What would you think?” It wasn’t. On Friday night...

Skills festival for para athletes

Gisborne sent four young athletes to the Halberg Games held at King’s College, Auckland, last weekend. The 2024 Halberg Games — a three-day national sports festival for young New Zealanders with physical disabilities — drew 220 athletes...

Gisborne Herald

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Sport

Hoskin second-time Olympian

Gisborne’s world champion sprint kayak paddler Alicia Hoskin is officially on her way to her second Olympic Games with New Zealand’s strongest kayaking team. The New Zealand Olympic team has named its largest-ever women’s canoe sprint team for...

Kiwis outgun Aussies in Showjumping Challenge at Equestrian Champs

New Zealand triumphed in the Trans-Tasman Teams’ Showjumping Challenge at the Larsen Sawmilling Equestrian Championships in Gisborne on Sunday. Led by best-performed Kiwi Johanna Wylaars (Christchurch) on Central Zone, the team finished the...

Unbeaten teams clash tomorrow

Senior netball returns tomorrow at Victoria Domain and the premier clashes will be highlighted by the game between TR Builds Horouta Koura and Claydens Waikohu (1). The 10am match features the two unbeaten teams in premier grade so far this season...

Allan’s a ‘Parkie’ for life

Allan Nairne is rarely lost for words. But when Electrinet Park bestowed life membership on him on Sunday in what had been a carefully planned, almost covert operation, he was gobsmacked. “It blew me away. I had no idea,” said Allan, who joins...

Golf roundup

MĀhia Fairways past and present will be walked this weekend when Māhia Golf Club celebrates its 50th anniversary. Stories will start flowing tomorrow at a 9-hole competition from 3pm followed by a meet and greet at 6pm. Saturday features 18 holes...

Chris Taewa

26 Apr 2024

Sport

HSOB and Ngatapa put to the test tomorrow

The premier rugby competition leaders have the bye and everyone else has to get a win while they can. Kahu Scaffolding Tapuae will take a hard-earned break and the other six teams in Civil Project Solutions Premier Rugby must strike while the...

Coast season opens with a drawn game

The season proper is up and not so much running as purring contentedly in the Sky Blue Union. Both the Heke-O-Te-Rangi Blackbee Contractors Ngati Porou East Coast men’s and Enterprise Cars NPEC women’s club competitions produced juicy fare on...

Ben O’Brien-Leaf

26 Apr 2024