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Bronze medal at Colgate Games

A rising Cambridge runner has come away from the recent North Island Junior Athletics Championships, better known as the Colgate Games, with a fantastic result for his efforts. Fourteen-year-old Liam McKee finished up the annual…

Record spectators at Waka Ama

A record 13,000 spectators attended the 2018 National Waka Ama Sprint Champs held at Lake Karapiro last week, with 3300 paddlers competing for national titles across five age divisions. The regatta, held each year at…

St Peter’s students lacrosse champions

Seven students from St Peter’s School were part of the New Zealand U19 World Championship Lacrosse Squad that won the 2018 ALA Southern Crosse Tournament in Australia recently. The event, held from January 3 –…

Scorcher for beach volleyball open

The competition was as fierce as the summer conditions at last weekend’s Waikato Beach Volleyball Open, the second event in the Volleyball New Zealand National Beach Tour. The tournament ran over two days with the…

Ichi Ban number one

Many people went sailing between Christmas and New Year, but only one Cambridge resident can say they were aboard the boat that won the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Anthony Merrington, whose yachting nickname is…

Cassidy gets European Tour status

Cambridge golfer Chantelle Cassidy who plays out of the Riverside Golf Club, travelled to Morocco last month to play in a rigorous qualifying series of tournaments to obtain her tour playing card for the Ladies’…

More medals for track cyclists

New Zealand’s Elite team of track cyclists bagged two victories and a silver medal on the final day of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Chile last Monday. The men’s team pursuit, made up…

Third place for Nick Ross at Taupo BNT V8s

Cambridge driver Nick Ross has come away from round two of the BNT V8s at Taupo third overall. Qualifying fourth, across the weekend’s three races Ross took his Total Lubricants Nissan Altima to fourth place…

Dream hockey sabbatical

Leamington School’s Kate Kernaghan is taking a six-month break from teaching next year to play for top English hockey club East Grinstead, near London. The 25-year-old striker has played elite-level hockey for the past nine…

Return to NZ racetrack pays off

Twenty Cambridge-trained horses attended the twilight meeting at the Ellerslie racecourse on Saturday 2nd December, which consisted of one winner, two seconds and one third. The Stephen Marsh-trained Kings Cross picked up where he left…

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