Southland Sport

Following the huge success of the Toyota 86 Championship in 2022, the dates for the 10th anniversary 2023 season have now been confirmed. Its big birthday season promises to be better than ever before for the most popular one make racing series in New Zealand. The biggest field ever is expected to b

More than 1200 people are convoying to Invercargill this week for the 2022 New Zealand Gymnastics Championships, at ILT Stadium Southland. 870-odd athletes have qualified their way to the championships where they will be battling it out over the next four days for national titles in aerobics, men’s

National Formula Ford champion Alex Crosbie had his first taste of Castrol Toyota Racing Series power recently when he tested the current Toyota FT-60 as part of his prize as champion. The Southland Boys High School pupil took the wheel for the first time on a challenging day of weather at Hampton D

Black Ferns sevens star Alena Saili is the 2022 ILT Southland senior sportsperson of the year.  The 23-year-old former Southland Girls’ High School student and two-time Southland junior sportsperson of the year became the first Southland woman to win an Olympic Games gold medal, as part of the New Z

Liam MacDonald of Invercargill took the Southland Sports Car Club Champions Trophy for the ninth time at the club’s 2021/2022 prizegiving at Teretonga Park on Monday night. MacDonald had another successful season in both ClubSport and Race Championship events to take the club’s top honour. He won hi

It was as great weekend of racing both on and off road, with Cycling Southland’s winter road race season kicking off on Saturday, followed by the third round of the Southland MTB Club’s winter cross country series on Sunday. Saturday saw just over 50 racers gather in near perfect conditions for the

A record field will line up for the fi innovations Southland Open squash tournament this week. The open, which also doubles as the South Island individual championships, will be staged across two venues at ILT Stadium Southland and Squash City on Friday and Saturday and will feature nearly 130 entri

Southland Sports Car Club volunteer Greg McLeod is an example of just how valuable volunteers are to clubs. When his employer Purdue Bros. decided to send one of their trucks to motor race meetings at Teretonga Park near Invercargill to help with incident recovery sixteen years ago Greg, who had onl