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Waka Ama underway

The Aotearoa Waka Ama whānau is competing at the 33rd Annual Waka Ama Sprint National Championships on Lake Karāpiro, Cambridge. Waka Ama New Zealand chief executive Lara Collins says the event, which started  on Sunday…

Cambridge race gets bigger 

The Race by Grins at Cambridge Raceway will join the thoroughbred code’s Karaka Million races and New Zealand Derby as the country’s richest races in April. Waikato-Bay of Plenty Harness committed to a $1 million…

Double success for White

Waipā driver Matthew White bookended wins on Cambridge Raceway at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023 with three-year-old filly Mhai Surfer Girl and veteran gelding Sly Punter. White trains Mhai Surfer Girl…

Racing – all in a mow

When Tony Gosnell of Hamilton is not servicing lawn mowers, he is racing them, and he needed all his skills on Sunday at Bay Waikato Mower Racing Club’s inaugural Cambridge meeting at the Pony Club…

Howzak! Anderson takes trophy

Cambridge Junior Cricket Club’s 12 junior hardball teams, which play in a Waikato competition, wrapped up their season with prizegiving at Cambridge Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon. Zak Anderson took out the premium award, Cambridge…

Cyclists in Games mode 

Cycling New Zealand’s elite track riders are starting a hectic and vital summer programme with Paris Olympic qualification at stake. With the shortened Olympiad post-Tokyo, qualifying steps up a gear in 2023, with the key…

A serving of pickleball

It’s got a quirky name, its ball has a Swiss cheese vibe, and locals are going crackers for it. Pickleball, a fusion of tennis, table tennis and badminton, is whetting the appetites of young and…

Special times at the Olympics

It’s the only sporting event I can recall where the competitors make a point of  approaching the media to say hello. The national Special Olympics in Hamilton wrapped up last weekend at the somewhat stunted…

Ready for the Special Olympics

With today being the opening of the Special Olympics games, competitors from all over New Zealand are preparing to compete. One of these competitors is Christina Crawford. Christina is 54 years old and has Williams…

Rowers put on Karāpiro show 

Some of the country’s finest young rowers put on two days of outstanding racing on Lake Karāpiro last weekend. The regatta attracted a host of Waipā and Waikato rowing clubs and schools – and promising…

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