Sport

Gisborne teen drifter says thanks with winning performance in MSC Challenge NZ

Thanks, Dad. Corbyn Wilson said as much through his performance over the last two rounds of the MSC Challenge New Zealand drifting series. The 16-year-old won round 3 and was second in round 4 at Meremere Drift Park last weekend. Those results meant...

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Gisborne Herald

21 Dec 2024

Sport

Gisborne swimmers finish the year in style at HBPB champs

Gisborne’s Enterprise Swim Team and Comet Swimming Club came away from the Hawke’s Bay/ Poverty Bay swimming championships at Kiwa Pools with a stack of medals. Enterprise had their biggest team in some time at the regional champs. “We had 48...

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Gisborne Herald

21 Dec 2024

Sport

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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Gisborne Herald

19 Dec 2024

Sport

Gisborne’s Koby Gooch joins NZ youth ministock team for 2025

Koby Gooch has been selected for the 2025 youth ministock team competing in Perth. The team includes six drivers aiming to retain the Trans-Tasman Trophy across four races. Gooch, 15, also competes in the New Zealand Formula First Championship and...

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Gisborne Herald

18 Dec 2024

Sport

Gisborne’s Elliott Smith shines as MVP at youth futsal tournament

Gisborne footballer Elliott Smith was named Most Valuable Player in her grade at the Palmerston North Marist Youth Futsal Tournament. She captained Hawke’s Bay Futsal 15s girls’ team and put in strong, confident and composed defensive displays...

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Gisborne Herald

18 Dec 2024

Sport

Have paddle, will travel: Waka ama coach takes it to the world

Gisborne waka ama paddling coach Vesna Radonich picked up four gold medals at the annual Vaka Eiva festival in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands last month. It put the seal on a busy year for international paddling coach Radonich, who travelled to Hong...

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Gisborne success at horse shows around the North Island

Gisborne equestrians have had a busy few weeks travelling to shows around the North Island. At the Hawke’s Bay A&P Show in October, Ella Rouse and Rumble Bumble came away with a win in the pony 95cm. Rouse had plenty of success with MJK Durham...

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Gisborne Herald

17 Dec 2024

Sport

Superstocks sensationally fast at Gisborne doubleheader meeting

Gisborne Speedway Club turned on two nights of great superstock racing at the weekend that wowed the crowd and the Rees boys family once again proved too hard to stop. The fourth round of the Kuru Contracting/A&R Logging Superstock Thunder...

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Gisborne Herald

16 Dec 2024

Sport

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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‘Best of the best’: Superstock stars set for Gisborne showdown

Gisborne Speedway Club hosts a superstock racing doubleheader at MTF Awapuni Speedway this weekend. The Rees family, including Peter, Asher, and Ethan, are highlighted as top contenders. Support events feature the Stone Transport & Hiab...

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Seth Hall lowers Eastland Kart Club lap record by over a second

The lap record at Eastland Kart Club’s Aerodrome Rd track has been lowered for the second week running. Seth Hall recorded a time of 21.259s on Sunday at the club’s fourth points meeting of the season. That was 1.251s faster than the time Ash...

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Success at Whangamatā Classic for Gisborne surf lifesavers

Gisborne surf athletes who raced at the Whangamatā Classic at the weekend won a share of events in a strong showing early in the season. Dawson Building Midway’s Ella Sutton was a standout with wins in the iron and board races, and a second in...

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Tamarau crew win East Coast Surfriders’ Battle of the Burbs teams’ surfing title

The team from Tamarau were victorious in the Battle of the Burbs surfing competition – the last of East Coast Surfriders’ “Kegged” events of the season. The Battle of the Burbs attracted seven teams, competing for the annual “GOAT of Gizzy...

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Gisborne Herald

11 Dec 2024