Halberg finalists unveiled
Thirty finalists across six categories have been named for the annual Halberg sports awards, whittled down from 76 nominations.
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Thirty finalists across six categories have been named for the annual Halberg sports awards, whittled down from 76 nominations.
New Zealand's Erika Fairweather has won bronze in the 400m Freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships in Japan.
New Zealand will send a total of 15 swimmers to the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, which is two more than last year.
Erika Fairweather had to quickly adjust to races with "some fast chicks in it" on her Olympic debut - and futher battles loom at next year's Commonwealth Games.
Stuff Sports 18 July, 2021, 10:19 am Swimmer Erika Fairweather will be the youngest member of the New Zealand team at the Tokyo Olympics. JOE ALLISON/GETTY IMAGES Erika Fairweather’s alarm tends to go off at 4.30am, some four hours before she starts school at Kavanagh College in Dunedin. She admits there are “absolutely” some mornings where she considers staying in bed when she is woken up that early. But as a swimmer, she has her eyes on an Olympic medal, an end goal which would make all those early starts – and all the hours in the pool – worth it. Fairweather had been planning on...