Sport + Motorsport

Five Southlanders form part of a 17-strong Cycling New Zealand squad competing in the UCI Track World Championships in Germany next month. Eddie Dawkins, Nick Kergozou, Corbin Strong, Natasha Hansen, and Kirstie James will make their way to Berlin in what will be a litmus test for the Vantage elite

Yamaha Motor New Zealand riders were in it to win it last weekend at the 2020 New Zealand Superbike Championships’ season opener in Christchurch. Cormac Buchanan, a 13-year-old Southland rider with support from Yamaha and local motorcycle dealership Rogers Yamaha, picked up three for three in the Su

Southern Bolts & Fasteners NZ Solo Championship and Malcolm Office Sidecar Memorial meeting, Southern Bolts & Fasteners NZ Solo Championship – Final Action photos from Oreti Park Speedway by Vanessa Adcock Photography. Oreti Park Speedway Results, 11 Jan 2020 1st 1NZ Bradley Wilson-Dean 2nd 23c Andr

Entries are now open for the annual ICC Surf to City on March 8, 2020. Sponsored by the Invercargill City Council and presented by Sport Southland, the ICC Surf to City is Southland’s largest participation event. The full 12km course starts at Oreti Beach and finishes at Queens Park, but there are a

A legend is coming home. Invercargill has a thing with wheels – and New Zealand’s premier destination for petrolheads is set to add another jewel to the crown. Southlander George Begg has been dubbed motorsport’s equivalent to Enzo Ferrari, and a city-wide celebration of the legendary engineer is se

You don’t have to leave Southland to find a pathway to becoming a professional rugby player. That is the message Rugby Southland Academy Manager David Hall will promoting to the Southland public later this month. In a Southland first, Rugby Southland Academy and SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags coachin

More than 1600 children from around Southland took on the Mitre 10 Mega Invercargill Tough Kid event at Rugby Park Stadium on Wednesday 4th December. Presented by Sport Southland, Tough Kid involves a 1km long purpose-built obstacle course and is one of the most highly-anticipated events on the scho

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