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Reid poised to test his mettle

TRIATHLONIF Tayler Reid wants a test of his mettle, he might get it this weekend. The Gisborne triathlete’s next race is in Leeds, England, which has a reputation for providing a challenging course. Reid said the bike section was difficult last year...

Beach racers scrambling for points

MOTORSPORTRound 2 of the Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club beach racing series rips into action at Makorori tomorrow as riders push hard for race series points. The senior open and 0-to-500cc class will have the sand flying. Road warrior Greg Hall...

Podiums priority

Reid pushing to qualify for Games

Knight taking position at Makaraka

MEL Knight will not be lost to Poverty Bay cricket following the appointment of Nic Hendrie as Poverty Bay Cricket Association’s operations manager, says chairman Christopher Slater. Knight, the Poverty Bay women’s player-coach and women’s...

Wellington's loss is Waikato's gain as Tapsell heads north

GISBORNE Boys’ High School first 15 captain and New Zealand Secondary Schools flanker Quade Tapsell made a huge impression on NZSS coach and Hurricanes assistant coach Jason Holland. But the 18-year-old Tapsell has been snapped up by the Waikato...

Gisborne girl power

BILLY Stairmand set a record for open men’s titles but Gisborne surfers left their own imprint on the national surfing championships at Piha on Saturday. Gisborne’s Saffi Vette won the under-18 and u16 girls’ titles, Stella Smith won the...

Golf Roundup

If you have a story, tournament to promote or results you wish to have printed, contact The Gisborne Heraldon 869-0633 or email sports@gisborneherald. co. nzGisborne ParkButch Atkins has told and been part of a story or three in his long golfing...

Gisborne’s Scott fourth in Fiji

ENTERPRISE Cars Swim Team member Matt Scott finished just out of the medals in the opening event of the Oceania Swimming Championships yesterday. Scott was fourth in the open water 10-kilometre swim held in choppy conditions at Suva. He was up with...

Thistle on wrong end of key decisions

Gisborne Thistle finished their first season back in football's Central Federation League with a 1-0 loss to the competition champions on Saturday. Havelock North Wanderers beat Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne Thistle with an 84th-minute goal at...

Allen to face Japan A in Levin tonight

Ngati Porou East Coast and former Poverty Bay loose forward Paddy Allen (pictured in action for the Coast against Poverty Bay last year) is in the Hurricanes Development squad to face Japan A in Levin tonight. Allen, who played his club rugby for...

END-TO-END DRAMA

WHAT a game!Gisborne United beat Gisborne Thistle 3-1 in a Pacific Premiership match at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. That bald statement of fact does no justice to 90 minutes of passionate endeavour that thrilled a well-populated grandstand of...

Five more teams compete in interschool badminton

Twelve teams took part in the 2022 Year 7 and 8 interschool badminton competition at the Badminton Centre. This was an increase of five teams on the last time the competition was held. Waikirikiri Tahi were the winners, Hinemoana were runners-up and...

Coach backing his boys ‘100 percent’

Poverty Bay coach Mana Otai says he is still backing his side despite a 50-0 thumping by Wanganui in the Heartland Championship here on Saturday.“We’re leaking points, simple as that, but we are working on it,” said Otai, whose side are third...

Grand Slam volleyball action by the sea

THE summer seaside game, beach volleyball, gets the new year off to an athletic start in Gisborne. The Tourism Eastland Beach Volleyball Grand Slam will be held at the beach-sprint track next to Churchill Park on Saturday and Sunday, January 2 and...

Good week for judoka and coach

GISBORNE Judo Club’s Rio-bound Darcina Manuel has had a boost in the lead-up to her participation in the Olympic Games. First, she achieved a bronze medal in the European Judo Cup competition in Bratislava, Slovakia, last weekend. And then her club...

Going for it in the primary triathlon

Determination was on the faces of hundreds of kids taking part in the Gisborne Primary Interschool Triathlon last week at Nelson Park

Paddlers churn up a storm

There were two storm fronts at the Asia Pacific Sprint Cup in Adelaide — the weather storm that hit the course on the Friday and Poverty Bay paddlers continuing their run of international success. The three-day regatta from Friday to Sunday drew...

Coast host Whanganui

The home team made rugby history 10 years ago. And at 2.30pm tomorrow at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park in Ruatoria, Ngati Porou East Coast Kaupoi will do battle — for the 30th time — with Steelform Whanganui. The Sky Blues have beaten the Butcher...