New Zealand Road Running Championships, Wellington Waterfront – 1 September 2012 Edwin Kaitany of Kenya continued his winning way around New Zealand with victory in the New Zealand senior men’s road running championship race. Kaitany led out after 6km and went on unchallenged to record 30m 20s for the 10km. With … [Read more...]
Sally Gibbs off to Italy
August 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
World masters running champion Sally Gibbs of Katikati will represent New Zealand at the world mountain running championships, in Ponte di Legno Italy on Sunday. At 49 Gibbs will start, with similar aged Izabela Zatorska of Poland, as the oldest in the field of 99. After an outstanding winter of racing, winning the … [Read more...]
Adams continues track success
August 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SWITZERLAND Athletissima Diamond League Meeting, Lausanne – 23 August 2012 Valerie Adams continued to dominate the world shot put scene winning at the Diamond League meeting with a best of 20.95m. The double Olympic gold medallist started with 20.73m with her top performance coming in the last round. Adams also set a … [Read more...]
Auckland Road Championships 2012
August 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Auckland Road Championships, Unitec Mt Albert – 19 August 2012 First year senior John Schreuder ran himself into the ground in winning the Auckland road running title around Unitec in Mt Albert yesterday. Schreuder put in a burner mid way through the race which gave him an advantage over regular rival this winter Jono … [Read more...]
New Zealand writers – a short introduction
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
New Zealand’s diverse literary tradition owes as much to its rich Māori and Polynesian heritage as it does to its pioneering history. Before the printed word, story-telling and oratory captured the stories of Aotearoa New Zealand. The first book was published in New Zealand in 1830. By the 20th century authors were … [Read more...]
Getting into hot water in Rotorua
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Getting into hot water comes naturally around Rotorua where an active thermal landscape is the source of bubbling mineral waters and therapeutic mud baths – so it’s no wonder that the tourist town is also New Zealand’s top spa destination. Long-recognised for healing qualities, the geothermal water and … [Read more...]
London Olympics Wrap Up
August 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
LONDON Olympic Games – 3-12 August 2012 Monday 6 August: Valerie Adams was unable to match the power of arch rival Nadzeya Ostapchuk in the defence of her Olympic crown in the shot put. Update: Adams wins Gold after Ostapchuk tests positive Adams had to settle for the silver medal as the Belarusian banged out … [Read more...]
Adams awarded Gold
August 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Valerie Adams has been awarded the gold medal for shot put at the London Olympic Games. The announcement comes after Belarus’s Nadzeya Ostapchuk tested positive for the steroid metenolone in a urine sample. Ostapchuk’s positive test means the 31-year-old has been stripped of her medal, which now passes to Adams. Adams … [Read more...]
NZ and Oceania Cross Champs 2012
August 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
New Zealand and Oceania Cross Country Championships, Minogue Park Te Rapa – 4 August 2012 Kenyan Edwin Kaitany found the muddy underfoot conditions difficult as he sped to victory in the New Zealand cross country championships at Minogue Park Te Rapa on Saturday. The 21 year old recorded 38m 54s for the 12km, beating … [Read more...]
Smith finds course tough
August 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Olympic Games – 3-12 August 2012 Kimberley Smith was disappointed with her 15th place in the marathon around a tight and difficult course in 2h 26m 59s. “I just didn’t feel great today, the course I found really, really difficult. I was slipping, the cobblestones were really hard to run on, the turns were really … [Read more...]
