Sport & Motorsport

An exciting new category and 39 finalists across 17 codes and pursuits have been confirmed for this year’s ILT Southland Sports Awards. For the first time, New Zealand’s longest running regional sports awards are including a Community Impact award to celebrate initiatives which have had a significan

More than 100 karters flocked to the top of the South Island to drop the flag on the six-stop Mainland Series last weekend. The series began with the Sunbelts Sprint Championship over two days, split between KartSport Nelson in Redwood Valley on Saturday before moving over the Whangamoa Saddle to th

Despite being just 15, Levi Stout has turned winning disc golf tournaments into a habit, but it didn’t start out that way. Levi first started playing disc golf when his mother bought a couple of cheap frisbees for him and his brother from Mitre 10 so they could have a throw around at the course […]

Opportunities await Southland racing driver Jordan Michels in Australia after a successful Supercar test across the Tasman recently. Michels made a quick trip across the ditch for a Supercar test with the Erebus Academy at Winton Motor Raceway in Victoria, mid-April. He tested along with several oth

The Invercargill Harness Racing Club’s annual Bluff Race Day takes place on the Monday of Queens Birthday weekend, 6 June at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill. The feature race of the day is the South Port NZ Ltd Bluff Cup which will be run over a distance of 2200 metres for a stake of $12,000 […]

The second round of the Outdoor H&J Smith XC Winter Series is taking place this Sunday, and excitement is building after the successful first round held early in May. The first round of the series saw 113 riders take to the starting line in spite of some rather wintery conditions on the day, and org

The Robinhood Stars will host the Elimination Final on Wednesday 8 June after a clinical 68-49 win over the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in Auckland on Thursday. The Stars extended their advantage at each of the breaks in a confidence-boosting preparation ahead of meeting either the MG Mystics or

The country’s top junior track cyclists will descend on Invercargill this week for the first round of the National Track Series. The event will be hosted by Cycling Southland, with racing taking place over three days from Friday at the SIT Zero Fees Velodrome at ILT Stadium Southland. As the first m