Southland Sports News
Speed Works Events has released its provisional 2019-2020 MotorSport NZ Championship calendar and the big news is the potential return of international single seaters to arguably the country’s most iconic race track. The Castrol Toyota Racing Series, which will once again run its five back-to-back r
2018-2019 New Zealand F1600 champion Southland’s Jordan Michels will test the Toyota FT-50 chassis this coming Tuesday as a group of young Kiwi racers try their hand in the country’s premier single seater series car. The test is part of the youngster’s prize for winning the F1600 championship and th
There’s much more than just ANZ Premiership competition points up for grabs when the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel take on the Northern Mystics at ILT Stadium Southland on Sunday. In honour of a legendary coach, the teams will contest the inaugural Georgie Salter Memorial Trophy. Salter passed awa
Southland has two New Zealand Junior Motocross champs after three days of racing in Palmerston North. Congratulations to Mitch Weir 1st 12-13yr 85 cc & Seth Morrow 1st 8-11 yr 85cc. Southland has produced some great motocross riders and the results showed at the NZ Junior Motocross Champs. The track
Les Hoffman and the New Zealand team shot their way into Silver Medal position for the senior teams event at the FITASC Oceania Clay Target Shooting Competition held in in Queensland, Australia on April 20-22. Les also won 4th Senior placing overall and with his combined scores from earlier competit
Finding their groove late, the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel powered home to clinch a 66-60 win over the much-improved Northern Mystics to close out Round Nine in Dunedin tonight. Well in the contest heading down the home straight, the Mystics could not contain the defending champions who showed t
Cycling New Zealand has announced an exciting 20-strong team to contest the under-19 competition at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships at Invercargill in October. The team will be joined by the national elite team to take on the best from Australia and the Pacific in the four-day competition at
A new fund has been launched to get more young women physically active, and Southland organisations are being called on to put their hand in for their share. The Innovations for Young Women Fund was launched by Sport New Zealand at the start of April, as part of a two-pronged investment to get more