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Close at the top in winter champs

SWIMMINGTHIRTY points separated the top three clubs at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay winter swimming championships in Hastings. Gisborne’s Enterprise Swim Club and Comet Swim Club finished a close first and second respectively, ahead of the Napier...

Surf sculpture has go ahead for Oneroa Walkway

A SCULPTURE depicting Gisborne’s historic association with surfing is planned to be installed later this year. GDC granted consent for the project in October 2017. Gisborne District Council Arts in Public Places Trust (AIPP) trustee Kay Crosby said...

New career brings Emily Atkins home

A BLAST from the not-so-distant past turned up at the Olympic Pool on Saturday to inspire Comet Swimming Club youngsters preparing for the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay summer championships. Seven years ago, Emily Atkins (nee Thomas) represented New...

Top step on podium for Tayler Reid and NZ mixed relay triathlon team

TRIATHLONTAYLER Reid and the New Zealand mixed relay triathlon team have had a confidence-boosting victory as they prepare for the Olympics. New Zealand won the relay at Edmonton, Canada, yesterday and Gisborne’s Reid was buzzing about the...

Strong start by PB club members

Poverty Bay Kayak Club members have made a strong start to the Canoe Sprint Junior and Under-23 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, overnight. Britney Ford and Kim Thompson are part of the New Zealand crew who advanced to the final of the u23...

Kahutia Bowling Club results of chartered clubs' tournament

TEAMS from Taradale, Ohope and Hastings won the three divisions of the Eastern Region Chartered Clubs Bowls Tournament at the Kahutia Bowling Club greens this week. Cam Parnell’s Taradale team won Division A, Des Connor’s Ohope four won Division...

Talk to a visitor for a perspective on surf

AS QUICKLY as the swells arrived last week, they just as quickly disappeared. First we had one of the most pumping starts to the New Year with a two-day pulsing southeast swell lighting up Wainui, giving everyone a New Year barrel or 10. Then...

Barefoot flair echoes Coast in a Whakarua Park touch

RUGBYSTEPPING past a defender and scoring a try for the Hurricanes against the Blues reminded Isaia Walker-Leawere of what it felt like playing rugby when he was a boy in Ruatoria.“It was kind of like when I was little at Whakarua Park, running...

Surf pumping at Wainui this morning

. . . and it was all Quinn's to enjoy

Local sports news

Gis Int up against ‘whirlwind’Gisborne Intermediate came up against a whirlwind pitcher who proved their undoing in the Bay of Plenty-Poverty Bay Intermediate Schools Softball Tournament boys’ final last month. Tauranga Intermediate beat...

Poverty Bay fight to the end

Whether it is better to have loved and lost or to have been so near yet so far from victory, unfolded yesterday morning in Taradale. Poverty Bay lost their fifth and by far their closest 30-over game at the Riverbend/Hawke's Bay Year 6 Black Grade...

Golden treble

Swimmers from Gisborne were among the medals at the New Zealand Short Course Championships in Auckland. Enterprise Cars Swim Team’s Jack Keepa set a Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay age group record and won a gold medal in the 15 years boys 100 metres...

Fourteen tries in drawn game

RUGBYIt sounds like fantasy. But after 60 minutes, OBM and Pirates had drawn 41-all in a remarkable game of rugby in the under-13 weight-restricted grade on Waikirikiri Park ground No. 1, while on No. 2 a strong Horouta side beat Eastland Vets Ngatap...

Golf Roundup

Poverty BayWHEN Tuki Sweeney teed off last Thursday, it had been a long time between 19th-hole drinks that he had felt the sub-80 love at Poverty Bay. Eighteen holes and 76 shots later, not only was he savouring the sweet taste of form, he was to...

Social summer fun on the courts

The call is out for anyone who wants to play social summer netball, starting next week at Gisborne Netball Centre's courts. The league is run by the GNC youth activation group and will be a Fast5 format. Teams have five players on the court at a time...

Young players show their skills

A FIRECRACKER of a game kicked off the second week of the Fulton Hogan secondary school rugby competition on Wednesday. Gisborne Boys’ High School under-15 colts beat the first 15 of Campion College 19-5 in a senior competition game under lights at...