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9/02/2012

Kayak coach trains Coast to Coast locals

Queenstown multisporters are on their marks for the 30th Coast to Coast – but it’s a Wanaka athlete making the waves.  Kayak coach Steve Norton is training six Queenstowners for this weekend’s gruelling South Island traverse.  Norton expects them to give a strong »»

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Winner’s time astounds organiser

Winner’s time astounds organiser

British mountain running champion Martin Cox has won a tough marathon in the Queenstown high »»

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Hey Andrea – you’re a winner

Hey Andrea – you’re a winner

Queenstowner Andrea Lowry first heard she’d won her Challenge Wanaka Ironman age-group »»

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Up for the Challenge

Up for the Challenge

A musician and an amateur swimmer from Queenstown plan to show the gruelling Challenge Wanaka »»

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Arrowtowner smokes train in running race

Arrowtowner smokes train in running race

An Arrowtowner has won the female section of the inaugural Race the Train running event in »»

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Champions podium at Lake Hayes tri

Champions podium at Lake Hayes tri

Elite Kiwi triathletes Jamie Whyte and Nicky Samuels (right) starred in the long-established Lake »»

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Local crowned Kepler’s Queen of the Mountain

Local crowned Kepler’s Queen of the Mountain

Queenstowner Sarah Coghlan has been crowned Queen of the Mountain after the gruelling 60km Kepler »»

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It’s the Motatapu – but not like you’ve known it

The Motatapu adventure race from Wanaka to the Wakatipu will have a multisport option from 2013.  The annual event sees competitors race between Arrowtown and Wanaka through stunning high country around Motatapu Station.  Organiser Geoff Matthews, a former winner of the Southern »»

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New runner stunner

New runner stunner

A new mountain running race in stunning Queens­town backcountry is expected to attract hundreds »»

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Multisporters blitz Cromwell

Multisporters blitz Cromwell

Queenstowners cleaned up in the second leg of the Southern Lakes Multisport Club’s races last »»

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