Southland Sport

Double junior track world champion Laurence Pithie is stepping into the unknown when the 64 th SBS Bank Tour of Southland cycle race gets underway at Invercargill on Sunday. At just 18 years, Pithie is one of the youngest in the 102-strong field, tackling 836km of racing with 4,600m of climbing over

SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags V Manawatu Manfield, Feilding 2.05pm This Sunday Joe Robins (Midlands), Nathan Nathan Va’atausili (Woodlands), Matt McKenzie (Woodlands) and Brad Armstrong (Star) are on debut for Southland. Ethan de Groot plays his 15th game for Southland earning his Blazer. Ethan De G

The Invercargill Harness Racing Club will host a fantastic day of harness racing at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill next Thursday, 29 October. The meeting is a twilight event, starting at 3.00pm and will feature the running of several of the region’s premier harness races that were not held at th

A homebuilt, electric powered, vehicle created plenty of interest at Round 3 of the Southland Sports Car Club’s Evolution Motorsport Clubsport Championship at Teretonga Park on Sunday. Duncan Cairncross of Gore entered the Autocross event in his LVVTA, a self built car powered by an electric forklif

SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags Squad (Subject To Change) Blazer indicates 15th cap for Southland. Team Naming SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags v Taranaki Kick Off 7.05pm Rugby Park Stadium, Invercargill This Saturday, Gates Open 3.20pm General Admission Terrace entry is FREE!Right Of Admission Reserved.

Carter Strang of Wallacetown, on the outskirts of Invercargill, took his second successive victory in the Eastern Southland Car Club’s MLT/Heartland Hotels Ernslaw One Limited Rankleburn Rally in West Otago on Saturday. Strang, the defending champion and top seed, along with co-driver Stewart Robbie

The referee who presided over the All Black’s history-making World Cup final victory in 2011 is coming out of retirement to lead an all-international referee line up for next week’s epic Pack the Park match in Invercargill (October 17). South African whistle-blower Craig Joubert was involved in seve

One of the south’s foremost rally drivers during the early 2000’s, Mark McMillan of Invercargill, the second seed for Saturday’s Rankleburn Rally, is enjoying being around rally people again after a lengthy break from the sport. McMillan started his rally career in a Subaru Leone in which he placed