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Young athletes impress with strength, speed and skill at Halberg Games 26 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM Quick Read Young athletes competed on the field in the Halberg Games over Anzac Weekend. Photo / Photoport NZ Herald By: Alex Robertson Last weekend a record 195 young athletes from all over New Zealand competed in the Halberg Games at King's College in Auckland. The three-day event, rescheduled from last October due to Covid restrictions, was a chance for contestants with a physical disability or visual impairment to compete in 20 different sports including swimming, wheelchair basketball and rugby, ...

For safety reasons, the 54-year-old had to paddle with Brett Garrett, a four-time Coast to Coast competitor and the person who taught her how to kayak last year. "They wouldn’t really allow me to do it by myself because I'm attached to the paddle at all times,” Dagg explains. Garrett works for a plumbing company and together they had a good think about overcoming the issue of how Dagg – an above-the-elbow amputee – would hold the paddle with her prosthetic arm. “He came back with a bit of PVC syphon, some rubber O-rings and a clamp," says Dagg, whose team logo is 'Limb-it-less Sh...