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Waka ama paddlers, supporters to gather for race simulation day

Not the real thing . . . but close

At full stretch

The Tairawhiti Secondary Schools Girls Ultimate Tournament held at Barry Park yesterday. Nine teams took part in the Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti-run event. Lytton High’s Dubs were the overall winners from IDK, also of Lytton, and The Ostriches of...

Best medal haul celebrated

CANOEINGNew Zealand celebrated their finest medal haul at an ICF Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Championships regatta by banking a gold and a silver on a thrilling final day of action at Montemor-o-Velho in Portugal. Lisa Carrington powered to...

Titles on the line in finals day

Championship titles go on the line this weekend in hockey and YMP pose a massive challenge tomorrow as GMC Green seek to go back to back in the women's championship. Their top-four final at 3pm on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve looks set to be the...

Weekend netball draw

Week 4 of Round 1 in senior netball and Week 1 of junior competition will be played on Gisborne netball courts this weekend. The Pak'nSave Gisborne Netball draw follows. All intermediate and secondary teams are to umpire their own games. All games are...

America’s Cup could next be Gisborne’s Cup

AMERICA'S Cup racing could be coming to Turanganaui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay. A Saudi Arabian syndicate plans to enter the Challenger Series for the next America's Cup, and has submitted a proposal for Gisborne to be its base. Team Sahara are being...

Sports draws

CRICKET — Twenty 20, SATURDAY, Harry Barker Reserve, 1pm: HB 1, Horouta v Bollywood Stars; HB2, Tamarind High School Old Boys v GBHS (2); HB3, Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates v GBHS (1); HB 4, Campion College v Bain Construction OBR3.30: HB1, Campion...

Players feel the heat of summer and competition

The past month has been a torrid time for Barry Memorial Croquet Club members — two tournaments were played in temperatures in the mid-30s. The golf croquet level singles tournament for those on handicaps of 6 and under, played on Auckland...

'Best for years' says Hutchings

SURF LIFESAVINGWAIKANAE surf lifesavers put in a national championship performance that head coach Cory Hutchings called the “best for years”.“It’s certainly by far the best while I have been involved with the club,” he said. Gisborne’s...

Kennedy wins President’s Trophy snooker

REX Kennedy defeated David Ou in Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s President’s Trophy final last Saturday. The competition was played on handicap and contested by those players who were winners or runners-up in club competitions this year...

Bay at full strength for Valley game,Mangapapa big winners

POVERTY Bay under-18 players get another chance to impress coach Jamie Hutana when they play Thames Valley at Rugby Park at 6pm tonight. The Bay lost 33-5 to Wellington Samoa in the opening game of their Hurricanes Colts campaign in Gisborne at the...

HSOB in dominant form

HIGH School Old Boys claimed Poverty Bay Cricket's Doleman Cup with a nine-wicket victory over OBR on Saturday. Bollywood Stars HSOB played some flashy cricket as they cruised to their 164-run target after Coastal Concrete OBR had been dismissed for...

Scoreboard

TriathlonGisborne’s Tayler Reid finished 26th in the elite men’s race at the ITU World Triathlon Leeds. Reid clocked one hour 49 minutes 31 seconds for the 1500m swim, 36.3km cycle and 10km run. South African Richard Murray won in 1.45.53 from...

Whangara, YMP favoured against Ngatapa, Horouta

“CHALLENGE” is written all over the task facing the teams taking on the top two sides in Pak’nSave premier-grade netball in the YMCA tonight. Both Farmlands Ngatapa and Horouta Gold will have their work cut out against Whangara Old Girls and...

‘Crazy year’ for Doug Moore but he still wants more

DOUG Moore’s “crazy year” of racing reached another high with victory in the Remax Matokitoki Classic Half Marathon on Sunday. The Gisborne builder has had an intense schedule over 2015 — including two trail ultra-marathons, six road and...

Big day for Hukanui Brown

GOLFHUKANUI Brown joked about getting revenge while putting on the Poverty Bay practice green yesterday morning. He then went about exacting it, twice, to book a spot in the Keiha Cup championship 16 semifinals of the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay...