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New exhibition at Mangawhai The Snapshots of the Olympics – a New Zealand Story exhibition opened at the Mangawhai Museum last week. It tells the story of each of New Zealand’s gold medal-winning Olympians since the first Kiwis attended in 1912 as part of an Australasian team. It starts with swimmer Malcolm Champion and ends with sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke. Curators Bev Ross and Christine Bygrave visited gold-winning windsurfer Barbara Kendall as part of their research. She has loaned two Olympic torches and uniform jackets for the exhibition. Ms Kendall formerly had a holiday h...

339 events on offer, across 33 sports. New Zealand are taking a record number of athletes to this year's Games. The biggest contingents are the football and field hockey teams, followed by rowing, cycling and rugby sevens. Limited local crowds will be able to attend events, as Japan continues to battle Covid-19. Organisers have set a limit of 50 per cent capacity up to a maximum of 10,000 fans for all venues. Tokyo has held the Olympics once before, in 1964. Middle-distance runner Peter Snell was the hero for New Zealand on that occasion, claiming gold medals in both the 800m and 1500m rac...

Bond and Hirini named New Zealand flagbearers for Tokyo 2020 Monday, 28 June 2021 Women’s rugby sevens captain Sarah Hirini and two-time Olympic rowing gold medallist Hamish Bond have been announced as New Zealand’s flagbearers for the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony. The joint flagbearer announcement follows the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) confirmation that nations could select a male and female athlete together. Both athletes will fly the flag at the Opening Ceremony on July 23. Hirini and Bond were confirmed at the flagbearers by New Zealand’s Chef de Mission Rob Waddell...

June 10th this year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest middle-distance performances of all time.

The Wanda Diamond League will be reopening a treasure trove of world class athletics heritage when the 2021 season gets underway with Mondo Duplantis, Dina Asher-Smith and co in action at the Muller Grand Prix Gateshead in two weeks today, Sunday 23 May. Rabat’s misfortune in being unable to host the opening event, due to ongoing coronavirus restrictions, has afforded one of track and field’s traditional hotbeds the opportunity to get back on the international map. The International Stadium in Gateshead, directly across the River Tyne from Newcastle in the north-east of England, last sta...