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WELCOME BACK: Glory to Kohn on return to NZ champs

Gisborne longboarder Hannah Kohn’s return to the national championship cauldron ended in glory on day 3 of the 2025 National Surfing Championships in New Plymouth. It was one of two titles claimed by Gisborne surfers on Tuesday - Stella Smith...

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16 Jan 2025

Waikohu success at NZ Māori golf champs

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16 Jan 2025

Girlpower: Hoskin leads female charge in golden year for Gisborne

It’s not easy being a parent in sport. From applying a plaster to a bloodied knee to “the Bank of Mum and Dad” funding an Olympic Games dream, parents of sports-loving children board the emotional rollercoaster pretty much the day their young...

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03 Jan 2025

News and results from around Gisborne golf courses

Patutahi Patutahi will be pumping on Saturday. Its annual Enterprise Motor Group Christmas tournament has attracted a full field of 140 players - split into morning and afternoon shotgun starts. Every golf club in the Tairāwhiti district will be...

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19 Dec 2024

Full Send golf event in Gisborne promises fun and fierce competition

Who is the King Kong of Gisborne golf? That question and others with bragging rights resolutions will be posed at the Full Send Social & Long Drive Event to be held on Gisborne’s Awapuni Links course in January. Full Send is the creation of...

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14 Dec 2024

News, results from around Gisborne and East Coast golf courses

Te Puia Hot Springs Waka Donnelly returned to where his golfing career began to be crowned the 2024 East Coast Open champion for the first time on Sunday. Donnelly defeated Ōpōtiki’s Micky Huriwaka 1-up in the championship 16 final of the Te...

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20 Nov 2024

Reedy standout as Tairāwhiti consigned to wooden spoon at Freyberg Masters golf tournament

One of the greatest individual performances in Tairāwhiti and Poverty Bay-East Coast history wasn’t enough to avoid the wooden spoon at the Freyberg Masters national interprovincial last week. Tairāwhiti finished 15th and last at the week-long...

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18 Nov 2024

East Coast Open: Back to where it began for Donnelly at Te Puia Hot Springs

Waka Donnelly has returned to the golf course where his successful amateur career began. Donnelly is among the field competing in the Te Puia Hot Springs Hotel East Coast Open, starting on Saturday. The seven-time Poverty Bay Open champion and...

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15 Nov 2024

News, results from around Gisborne Tairāwhiti golf courses

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13 Nov 2024

News, results from around Gisborne and East Coast golf courses

Mahia Wade Wesche delivered the shortest but most memorable speech at his home Mahia club on Sunday. Wesche only needed three words to get the clubhouse charging their glasses after he was presented the Charlie Austin Trophy for the best performance...

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06 Nov 2024

Gisborne and East Coast golf roundup: Collier wins fifth senior club championship at Park

Electrinet Park Dan Collier matched his trimmed-down body with some slick golf to clinch his fifth senior men’s club championship crown at the Park on Sunday. Collier defeated Jason Devery 4 and 3 in the 36-hole matchplay final – adding 2024 to...

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30 Oct 2024

Fourteen national titles for Gisborne Judoka Club

Gisborne Judo Club head coach Jason King is happy enough to put one new name on the club’s honours board after a national championship. So he was ecstatic when four GJC players became first-time New Zealand champions after a successful 2024...

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