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Javelins’ 100-year-old trophy

yachting The 100th edition of New Zealand’s oldest sailing trophy event, the Sanders Cup Interprovincial Challenge, will be held in Gisborne starting on Anzac Day. Gisborne Yacht Club will host the 2024 Sunshine Brewery Sanders Cup and Javelin...

Emotional Kelly Slater falls out of tour, spelling an end to his phenomenal career

Eleven-time world surfing champion and legend of the sport Kelly Slater has called time on his career. A visibly emotional Slater sent a message to his family after the realisation suddenly hit him. It was almost fitting that it took the current...

Golf roundup

Poverty Bay The stars of one of the greatest performances in Poverty Bay club history were at it again on Sunday. Paul Rickard and Brad Morgan successfully defended the Tom Shaw Memorial Awapuni Shootout crown. “Rick”, getting around on his late...

Tight at the top as Oligoi Jug tees off

A vow to earn Te Puia Hot Springs a long-awaited Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants title got off to a mixed start in rounds 1 and 2 of the 2024 edition. William Brown is a Waikohu boy at heart and a Poverty Bay member as the course’s chief...

Big win for Tapuae to co-lead premiers

Tapuae have made an impressive start to the season. Kahu Scaffolding Tapuae and defending champions East Coast Farm Vets YMP both have two wins. The Wairoa-based Green and Blacks beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 70-8 on Saturday. Pirates won the...

Nuhaka, Athletic top teams

Nuhaka and Wairoa-Athletic are the teams to beat two weeks into the Civil Project Solutions Senior 1 rugby season. The Nuhaka V8s overcame their hosts Mahia Avenue Shop Tapuae 62-0 at Tapuae Sports Ground No. 1. Nuhaka, known as The Star, scored...

Honours shared by GBHS age-groupers

The rugby relationship between Gisborne Boys’ High School and Hastings Akina is a hugely important one. The Gisborne BHS under-15s beat Hastings 24-15, with Akina winning the u14s clash 25-5 at HBHS on Friday. In the u15s match, Jimmy Tufung...

Moment of truth for Whangara, Girls’ High and YMP teams

Whangara Old Girls will need to put the big defeat at the hands of YMP (1) on the Victoria Domain courts last Saturday behind them tonight, when they front up to the unbeaten Horouta Koura. Those two teams play the middle game of three tonight in...

Season-ending thriller at Gisborne Speedway

'They were flying!' - Superstocks racing fan.

Indoor bowls news, results

It is six Poverty Bay East Coast centre pairs titles and counting for Pauline Stone and Nanette Treloar. The deadly duo’s latest success added to their individual tallies — Treloar now has 20 and Stone 16. Kayla Trowell and Rachael Rickard were...

Whitewash win to Athletic

To beat Wairoa Athletic at home is a tough assignment. Poverty Bay Senior 1 club rugby champions Tapuae found that out in a 36-0 loss to Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic in a local derby on the opening Saturday of the 2024 competition. The Alex...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: E Tamihana, K Leach (Souljahs); T Duncan (Dartaholics); L Groenewald (Tigers); A Kaiwai, M Hawea (Vikings); M Evans 3 (Spandangles); A Campbell-Ratapu (Mayhem); M Stevens (Rebels). Highest start (180): M Evans...

Whāngārā Old Girls v YMP 1 chance to make early statement

Premier grade Round 1 netball games at Victoria Domain tomorrow feature a mouthwatering rematch of last year’s epic grand final between Whāngārā Old Girls and YMP (1). Players and supporters will never forget that incredible August 19 clash in...

Superstocks, ministock 100, $10k fireworks display to end season with a bang

The Gisborne speedway season ends with two big nights of superstock racing and if the fireworks on the track are not enough action for fans, a $10,000 Saturday fireworks show above it should be. It starts tonight with the McCafferty Metal Cartage...

Bring on the Aussies

Gisborne will be well represented at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships on the Sunshine Coast. The “Aussies” run from today to Sunday April 21, at Alexandra Headland, Maroochydore, Mooloolaba and Coolum. More than 7000 competitors...

Doesn’t get any easier as Thistle hit the road again

It’s hard to see Gisborne Thistle catching a break in the first two months of football’s Central Federation League. Coming off a 3-0 away loss to Taradale, Electrinet Thistle are away again tomorrow . . . to defending league champions Palmerston...

Honours shared by Div 1 newbies

Gisborne club football was back at the weekend, with all the verve of interclub rivalry and the novelty of teams having a tilt at higher competition. Two sides who moved up from last year’s Division 2 — C & G Plumbing High School Old Boys...

More women on the whistle

The drive to get more referees into rugby is on. The visit to Gisborne of New Zealand Rugby women’s referee development officer Maggie Cogger-Orr at the weekend reinforced that point. Auckland-based Canadian Cogger-Orr, 32, achieved a lot in three...