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Gisborne Herald chief sub-editor Chris Taewa continues a series on his favourite sporting memories

Tairāwhiti, Wairoa shine

Tairāwhiti and Wairoa clubs that competed in the Taupo junior rugby festival at the weekend acquitted themselves well. Pirates, Ngatapa, YMP, Uawa and Wairoa teams were among clubs from right round the country taking part in the festival.“The...

Swim The Distance Challenge: Eva Kinsella snatches win from Angus Blair

More than 142,000 laps of the Olympic Pool Complex's 50-metre pool were completed by those in this year's Swim The Distance Challenge. The 234 participants faced the task of swimming the equivalent distance of Midway to Mahia — 45.5km — over...

Winners . . . grinners

Gisborne Rowing Club crews have hit the water running for the 2019 competition season. The first regatta of the year — the Hawke’s Bay Cup — was held on Clive River earlier this month and Gisborne performed strongly in testing...

Games on for Tuteari as ‘fittest on Earth’ are sorted

GISBORNE teenager Tuteari Te Rauna-Lamont will be ready to face the world’s best when he steps up at the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games in the United States tomorrow. The games are dubbed the world’s premier test to find the “fittest on Earth”...

Midway trio in Black Fins squad for world champs

SURF LIFESAVINGTHREE Midway club members have been named in the New Zealand Black Fins team for the 2018 Lifesaving World Championships in Adelaide in November. Cory Taylor, Chris Dawson and Olivia Corrin are in the 12-strong team coached by Jason...

Waikohu target spot in premier-grade top four

A RESURGENT Waikohu take on YMP in premier-grade Pak’nSave netball at the YMCA tomorrow morning, and much hangs on the result for a Waikohu team battling to make the top four. Claydens Waikohu will have been encouraged by a result on Wednesday...

Gisborne IRBs set to miss out on nationals

Waikanae IRB crews could miss out on the chance of national titles because remaining surf lifesaving sport events this season have been cancelled or postponed. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae had tremendous success in the North Island championships last...

Sports draws

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club — Steve Wolter Plumbing Series, Race 5 (final race in series), SATURDAY — sign on from 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Te Karaka for a 2pm start. Race: Tarndale. A/B Grade 55km (Armstrong Rd); C Grade 40km (turn 7.5km before...

Ngatapa leave their run too late

HOCKEY by Murray RobertsonPaikea got up to win the match of the weekend in senior women’s hockey when they defeated Ngatapa in a thriller on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. JNL Paikea beat previously unbeaten Ben Holden...

BRIDGE RESULTS

Jeff Allen, Sue Minot 60.95 Caroline Taylor, Jean Turnbull 56.67Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 55.08 Robin Bennett, Jean Bennett 52.86Amanda Matthews, Stephen Francks 52.08 Frank Roach, Mark Fleming 51.43Elizabeth Jackson, Trish Corson 61.00...

Win all the way from Invercargill,Trek well worth the trouble

THE trek north paid off handsomely for South Island super saloon racer Campbell McManaway at the Eastland Group Raceway last night when he stormed out from pole to win Round 3 of the Burger King Pro Dirt Series. The 54-year-old McManaway (492I) came...

Race aim to hone edge

Cancellation of the waka ama sprint nationals due to Covid-19 has prompted local clubs to be resourceful in the ways they keep their paddlers motivated. Two weeks ago Horouta Waka Hoe held a successful simulation day, and tomorrow Gisborne's other...

Day 1 equestrian results

Results from Day 1 of the Larsen Sawmilling Jumping and Show Hunter Championships (riders from Gisborne unless stated otherwise) —ShowjumpingOpen horse 1.2m (under seven years old): Oliver Croucher (Scotsmans Valley) Cambridge 1; Larina Dolman...

Crampton hits a hundred

CRICKETA MATT Crampton ton has kept Pirates in the hunt for the DJ Barry Cup cricket title but High School Old Boys are still clear at the top of the table. Old Boys Rugby are also back in the mix after they defeated Gisborne Boys’ High School in...

Visitors rule

Honours to away teams in opening round of Coast club rugby