Southland Sports News

Mitchel Fitzsimons has been named to the New Zealand team for the UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships to be staged in Cairo in August. It will be the first time that the championships have been staged the Middle East, and will be held in a new velodrome in Cairo, Egypt from 16-21 August, th

Rugby Southland have named their Southland Invitational XV Squad who will take the field against visiting Nadroga this Thursday, kick off 6pm, Fred Booth Park Waimumu. Tickets are available at iticket.co.nz Southland Invitational XV

An Australian man will be trying today to become the first person from his country to swim across the Foveaux Strait. The 34-kilometre swim between Stewart Island and the South Island has been done by 10 people but never by an Australian. Wayne Armour, 33, is raising money for the millions of animal

Entries for the Maxis Projects 6+6 Adventure Race open February 1. Despite the 2020 edition being just the third running of the Sandy Point-based event, the 6+6 has quickly become a much-anticipated date on the local events calendar. Last year nearly 40 teams took part, with the Southland Triathlon

AWS Legal Compliance and Risk Officer Bruce Horwood was on fire earlier this month with a double win at the Target Shooting Nationals in Trentham, Upper Hutt. Bruce conjured up a majestic score of 587 ex 600 on Day 1 to win the Wellington 300m Championship and followed this up by winning the Nationa

A fantastic number of newcomers to surfing took advantage of the Southland Boardriders Association Have A Go Day at Colac Bay on Sunday. Jess Terrill of the Southland Surf School said it was a “massive turnout.” “Plenty of newcomers were in the water surfing and every one of them managed to get up a

It is with great excitement Rugby Southland announce that Tony Lamborn will be returning to the SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags for the 2020 season. Tony was a valued member of the Stags 2018 squad but was unable to commit for the 2019 season because of his commitments at the Rugby World Cup with the

Large fields made for a top weekend of motor racing action presented by Downer at Teretonga Park, Invercargill, this weekend. Steve Ross of Dunedin in his Jaguar XK8 TraNZam was the standout in the OSCA Super Saloons winning three of the four races to top the podium for the weekend with Kris Brown o