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The elite men’s race is shaping up as a showdown between New Zealand’s best domestic based riders and a number of professionals returning from long overseas seasons as the Calder Stewart Cycling series hits Canterbury for its final double header weekend of racing. “It’s going to be an awesome showdo

Sport Southland staff members will put themselves well and truly out of their comfort zone during next year’s Kathmandu Coast to Coast. Chief executive Brendon McDermott, digital administrator Tessa Hewlett and Healthy Families Invercargill systems innovator Lauren Richardson will take part in the t

Four-time Targa New Zealand event winners Glenn Inkster and Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) from Auckland head south this week as favourites to win this year’s five-day tarmac motor rally marathon from Invercargill to Dunedin and on to Queenstown which starts on Tuesday October 23 and finishes on Sa

Netball South has named an 23-strong training squad to prepare for the 2019 Beko Netball League. The players were selected following trials at weekend and will now focus on off-season strength and conditioning before being invited to participate in a second trial at the end of January. A final team

SIT Zero Fees Southland co-captain James Wilson has capped an emotional homecoming by being named the Stags player of the year at the end-of-season awards tonight. After last playing for Southland in 2011, Wilson returned home in 2018 following a storied overseas career which included English premie

His name is Bond, Hamish Bond – but it will be very much a cyclist, rather than an Olympic champion rower, who lines up for this year’s SBS Bank Tour of Southland. The eight-time world and two-time Olympic rowing champion has targeted this year’s tour as another important building block towards his

Southland’s Hawke Cup-winning cricketers are utilising the Mike Piper Training Centre as they look to retain the coveted trophy this summer. The Hawke Cup – cricket’s version of the Ranfurly Shield – is contested on a challenge basis between New Zealand’s minor associations and is part of Southland

Seven podium placings without getting to the top step was the lot for the Vantage New Zealand team on the final day of the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Adelaide. The championships, which offered qualifying points for the world championships and ultimately the Tokyo Olympics, mark the begin