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Comet trials new swimming complex

Comet Swim Club have geared up to start their training at the new Kiwa Pools complex and head coach Glenn Hamblyn said these were exciting times for the club and the district. This weekend marks the opening of the Kiwa Pools to the public. “It’s...

Gisborne triathlete third in Super League opener

"This one meant a lot” was the short but sweet Facebook message from Gisborne’s Tayler Reid after his podium performance in the opening race of the NZ$2.1 million Super League Triathlon Championship. Reid, 26, placed third in Race 1 of the fifth...

Smith rules beach in Tasman battle

Gisborne’s Oska Smith shone for the New Zealand Junior Black Fins and the New Zealand Pathway teams in the Battle of the Tasman held on the Gold Coast at the weekend. Smith, of the Waikanae club, was too hot to handle for the Aussies in beach...

Huge week of sport for students

Victories for the senior hockey and football teams in Napier got Gisborne Boys’ High School off to a good start in the New Zealand Secondary Schools Winter Tournament Week. The hockey team, coached by Wade Manson, with Aidan Scragg his assistant...

Olympic gold in sights after world champs first

I guess teamwork really works.” That was the reaction of a stunned Alicia Hoskin after helping create New Zealand sporting history at the Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Championships in Duisberg, Germany. Dame Lisa Carrington, Gisborne’s...

Heroic defence key for Coast

The Sky Blues are now on a roll. Head coach Kahu Tamatea’s Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast beat North Otago 38-29 in an astonishing gut-check on Saturday. The NPEC Kaupoi (Cowboys) led the Old Golds 21-14 at halftime and out-scored the...

PN United close in on Central Fed League title

Jimmy Somerton scored a hat-trick for Gisborne Thistle on Saturday — his third of the season — and still ended up on the losing side. Palmerston North United beat ALH Gisborne Thistle 5-3 at Childers Road Reserve to clear the first hurdle in...

Wairarapa regain Jeremy David Memorial

Saturday morning was one for New Zealand rugby fans to forget after the All Blacks’ ill-disciplined 35-7 battering by South Africa. Saturday afternoon featured discipline issues for Poverty Bay as well as they let a 17-11 halftime lead slip to...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: TK Kaio 2, J Noanoa 2, A Taukamo-Pohio 2, M Jones, A Charlie, Q Stevens, M Stevens, I Eyles, T Campbell-Ratapu, F Waihape, S Ratima, A Kaiwai, M Hawea, H Eyles. TEAM RESULTS (P = pairs, S = singles, T = tons) A GRADE...

More than points up for grabs

Confidence is building momentum within the Poverty Bay squad as they look to extend on impressive first-half performances in their opening two Heartland Championship clashes. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas meet Wairarapa Bush in Masterton...

Same hole, same day, same perfect result

Gay Young and Carnie Nelson started playing golf at about the same time nearly 25 years ago, so it was a fitting coincidence the pair would achieve career-first perfection on the same day. And they did it on the same hole. Young sank her 9-wood tee...

Tūranga out to make it two for two tomorrow

Fresh from their victorious start to the inaugural North Island Heartland women’s rugby competition, Tūranga Wahine intend to make it successive wins in Gisborne tomorrow. Week 2 of the history-making championship will see Tūranga Wāhine and...

Thistle have role to play in Fed title race

Gisborne Thistle play reluctant kingmakers in the run-in to the end of their Central Federation League football season. On Wednesday night, Palmerston North United beat league leaders Palmerston North Marist 2-1 with a stoppage-time goal that could...

History on the mats

Paris, she’s coming for ya. Well, not quite yet, but Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews continues to make all the right moves towards wearing the fern at the pinnacle of global sport — the 2024 Paris Olympics. Creating a bit of New Zealand history...

Golf roundup

ELECTRINET PARK Karen Hay and Jo Kerr won’t forget the last time they met in a club championship final. It was two years ago and it took 37 holes before Hay sealed her 19th senior women’s crown in what Kerr described as “one of the best...

Winning start for Tūranga Wāhine

The “system” put in place in the Turanga Wāhine squad has immediately shown its worth. Turanga had a 31-15 victory over Thames Valley Vixens in their opening game of the inaugural North Island Women’s Heartland Championship in Te Aroha on...

United on track to complete four goals

Gisborne United won football’s Eastern League 1 title with a 100 percent win record and a nine-point margin over the runners-up. They won all 13 of their games, scoring 85 goals and conceding only 13 for a goal difference of 72. Heavy Equipment...

Gibson-Park had strong game as the Irish beat England

Gisborne Boys’ High old boy Jamison Gibson-Park sends the ball away during Ireland’s test match against England at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Gibson-Park had a strong game as the Irish beat England 29-10 in a clash highlighted by an acrobatic try...