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JB Phillips, Sports Writer offers some
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for
regular web visitors:
ADDED
14 Feb:
NZ MASTERS GAMES GAME WRAP
Former world, Commonwealth Games and national champions were to the fore in their
age groups at the 2005 New Zealand Masters Games which ended in Wanganui today
(Sunday)., more info
TWILIGHT There is now doubt who has the widest smile
in the Keelty family following
the very popular twilight
combo competition, more
info
WATER SKI Tauranga’s 56-year-old
Clive Chester carried off the trophy, more
info
SHOOT POSSIBLES Five marksmen shot
possibles in the 25 target single rise
clay target shooting, more
info
ROAD CYCLE New Zealand Olympic rider
Tom Bamford had to be content with a
bronze medal when
beaten by two fellow Palmerston North riders, more
info
5KM RUN-WALK Norris Wyatt (Auckland)
and Terry Manners (Hawke’s
Bay) won gold medals in the 5km road run, more
info
SNOOKER John Rehman was on cue
to take two gold medals, more
info
SMALLBORE SHOOT Grant Taylor carded
a fine 594 aggregate, more
info
PETANQUE Karl Polestad and Joe Gazzard
finish second, more
info
CARRIAGE Masterton 72-year-old Pam Nathan
certainly knows how to handle horses.
She snared two gold medals, more
info
YACHTING Grant Allen sailed away with the
Paper Tiger class, more
info
ADDED 12 Feb:
CYCLE TT,
Former Commonwealth Games star Gary Anderson
proved
he is still
a class cyclist, more
info
TEN PIN Bronwyn Elsmore, a 50-year-old
player from Palmerston North, will return
home with
at least two
titles, more
info
BASKETBALL Northern North Island teams
won five of the nine titles at stake, more
info
TABLE TENNIS The Wellington area claimed
the gold and silver medals, more
info
TENNIS Tauranga’s 76-year-old Bob
Wallis was the oldest singles winner, more
info
TARGET SHOOT Barrie Peterson (Hastings)
was in sharp form, more
info
GOLF Wanganui signwriter Morrie Gibbons
posted 147, more
info
ATHLETICS-HARE, Former world road running
relay champion Anne Hare, as expected,
was too strong for
the opposition, more
info
ADDED
11 Feb:
FRIDAY PROGRAMME
11
Two major team sports – soccer
and netball start, more
info
ROAD TOUR 10, Australians Sandra
Fung and Ken Smith carried off gold medals, more
info
TABLE TENNIS 10, Former New Zealand champion
Robert Dun, more
info
SPEEDWAY 10 Three of the “babies” of
the field took gold medals, more
info
EUCHRE 10,Seventy three year old Doreen
Broadbent had a golden glint, more
info
BADMINTON 10, The Horowhenua district
enjoyed success, more
info
GAMES PROG THURS
10, more
info
SOCIAL PETANQUE Wanganui
couples took both the championship and
consolation titles, more
info
GAMES BANDS A feature of closing
night at the Masters Games on Sunday will be
a return of a hit Wanganui pop group from 45
years ago, more
info
SWIMMING - 09 Tauranga veteran
Sidney Salek set two national records, more
info
INDOOR BOWLS The precision-like
New Plymouth indoor bowls combination skipped
by John Zittersteijn continued an amazing winning
sequence of victorie, more
info
RIDGE RUN An excellent
20min 16sec dash over 7km of ridges carried
Wanganui’s
Viv Eyers into sixth fastest time, more
info
INDOOR ROWING Former world
champion Phillipa Baker-Hogan proved she is
still a class oarswoman, more
info
GOLF The Australian pair of
Robert and Heather Stephens lapped up fast running
fairways at Castlecliff to win gold medals, more
info
CANOE The Auckland trio of
Phil Exeter, Richard Couchman and Susan Burborough
dominated the Masters Games canoeing, more
info |
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