Southland Sport

With the borders open, a significant number of New Zealand cyclists are heading across the Tasman for a unique Oceania Cycling Championships. The championships comprise nine cycling categories which started with mountain bike downhill last weekend and finish with the road race on April 10, all in an

With a weather-eye on the immediate need for global points but with a desire to look to the future, Cycling New Zealand has selected a mix of proven and potential in the team to context next week’s track competition at the Oceania Championships in Brisbane. The Oceania Cycling Confederation has orga

Southland showed that it is still a powerhouse in New Zealand cycling with some exceptional performances at the Track National Championships, contested over five days of intense racing at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge. The team claimed a national record, a couple of championship record

Rugby and netball are starkly contrasting sporting codes but physiotherapist Andrew Mackintosh is discovering plenty of similarities. Mackintosh has joined the ranks of the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel this season, tasked with keeping the players in peak shape as the demands of the ANZ Premiershi

Fifteen–year old Invercargill driver, Alex Crosbie, has surpassed even his own expectations after taking third place in the 2021/2022 South Island Formula 1600 Championship which ended at his home circuit, Teretonga Park in Invercargill last weekend. Alex, a Year 11 student at Southland Boys High Sc

Close racing in almost every category was the feature of the first day of action at the Southern Thunder motor racing event presented by Downer at Teretonga Park in Invercargill today. The New Zealand Super Truck Championship field provided their share of excitement in their outing. Alex Little of L

For the first time in ANZ Premiership history, the MG Mystics have defeated the Ascot Park Hotel Steel at home in Invercargill, with a comprehensive display on both attack and defence to win 70-50. After allowing the Mystics a 10-goal advantage in the first quarter, the Steel couldn’t pull it back d

All Black and Highlander Ethan de Groot has recommitted to the SBS Bank Southland Stags in 2022. The 23-year-old 135 kg loosehead prop with his roots in Gore and Invercargill is currently in the midst of the Super Rugby Pacific with the Highlanders based in Dunedin. With 17 games for Southland over