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Burton Cup bowls tournament is under way

A full field of 16 teams contested the first day’s play of the revamped Burton Cup tournament at the Gisborne Bowling Club greens. Competition continues tomorrow in what is now known as the Burton Cup Classic Fours. Two teams from Kawerau and...

Remarkable Games ‘fun’

Thirteen rangatahi from Gisborne Girls’ High School, Gisborne Intermediate and Campion College took part in The Remarkable Games last Friday. The kaupapa of the event is to give local tamariki whaikaha (disability) community a safe, supportive...

Palmerston North in sights

RUGBYThey have Palmerston North in their sights. Two weeks after Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15’s epic 17-5 win against 2019 National first 15 rugby champions Hastings on the Rectory field, the Ryan Tapsell-coached crew are taking their...

Good turnout for summer racing

BMXA good turnout of well over 40 riders marked the start of summer racing at Gisborne BMX Club’s track on Tuesday. For 14 members it was a last hit-out before they attended the North Island champs at Auckland’s Mountain Raiders track. StridersJax...

District schools gather for festival

OVER 1100 gymnasts from 28 schools took part in the Gisborne schools’ gymnastics festival last week. Wainui Beach and St Mary’s were equal-first in the primary schools’ division, Gisborne Intermediate was first in the intermediate division, and...

Gisborne Harrier Club throws down challenge

HOW much can you improve your 2.5 or five-kilometre running time in two months?Gisborne Harrier Club is putting this challenge to local runners with its Thursday twilight series that starts tomorrow and continues to the end of March. The club is...

Giants make it three on the trot

SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Giants’ third win on the trot in the national superstock teams championship at Waikaraka Park on Saturday night felt the biggest and best yet, team captain Peter Rees said. The Giants team of Rees (2NZ), his son Ethan (127G)...

More gold medals for Horouta crews

Horouta Waka Hoe Club’s Puhi Kaiariki crew completed a notable double on the final day of the IVF Va’a World Sprint Championships in Tahiti. They added the Junior 16 women’s V6 500-metre title to the V6 1000m they had won the day before. The...

Bridge results

Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 59.44 John Jones, Glenys Evans 62.38Roger Hayward, Sue Hayward 56.11 Eileen Lee, David Johnstone 60.00Eileen Voysey, Janet Joblin 55.56 Linda White, Frank Roach 55.71Yvonne Waide, Katrina Duncan 63.39 Stephen...

Hikurangi ease into East Coast top four

HIKURANGI hit their straps in the second half of the Ngati Porou East Coast senior rugby game at Ruatoria to beat Tokomaru United 38-14 and edge their way into the competition’s top four. Hiku first five-eighth Kris Palmer was first to score after...

Sports draws

NetballWeek 1 of Round 2 of PAK'nSAVE Gisborne senior netball will be held at Victoria Domain on SATURDAY. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Senior Round 2, Week 1; Junior Week 3; futureFERNS Years 5 and 6, Week 2. All senior cards run from the...

Mackey gracious in defeat

RUGBYThe sporting buzz-term of the moment is “transformational change.”And if change only works from the top down, it’ll be at least a year before New Zealand Rugby has an opportunity — through the appointment of a new chair — to make that...

More funding for grassroots sport

Second round offers Tairawhiti $150,000

Journey beyond dreams

Resilience apparent in response to setbacks

V5 in the lead in the yacht race

THE David Nathan helmed V5 was literally sailing away late this afternoon from the rest of the field in the reborn Auckland to Gisborne yacht race. The other six boats in the field were struggling to get around the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula in...

Big wins and an upset

YMP, GMC go ballistic, LOB tear up the form book