Auckland City FC won an unprecedented third consecutive OFC Champions League title yesterday with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over bitter rivals Waitakere United at Mt Smart Stadium.  The club can now look forward to a December trip to Morocco, where they will compete in the Fifa Club World Cup for a fifth time. All the [...]

Ski field operators are gearing up for an early start to the season following snowstorms in the past two weeks around the country. Manager of the avalanche and snow-sports programme at Otago Polytechnic Peter Bilous says from May to July the country should expect higher-than-usual temperatures and precipitation. “It means we could either have a [...]

With players from seven different countries, Auckland Football Club is showing that a cosmopolitan line-up is a recipe for success. Since the club’s inception in 2005, Auckland FC has four times won the ASB Premiership as New Zealand’s champion club team, as well as four titles in the Oceania Champions League. Both are records for [...]

Not since 2002 and the days of Sean Marks, Kirk Penney and Pero Cameron has it been this good to be a New Zealand basketball fan.  The Breakers’ third consecutive ANBL title caps off a month in which Rotorua-born Steven Adams is now looking to to become the third New Zealander to play in the [...]

New Zealand’s never-ending summer has seen surf lifesavers in the water more than normal this year. The unusually long summer resulted in 1100 rescues this year. “It’s been busy. Not twice as busy [as previous years]. But busier,” says Surf Lifesaving New Zealand’s (SLSNZ) general manager of programmes and services Brett Sullivan. SLSNZ performs 15,000 [...]

Hardcourt bike polo is a young sport in New Zealand, born in inner-city streets and played by those who can make their own equipment and who aren’t afraid to lose a couple of teeth. Alan England, 31, has set up an organising committee with four other players to grow hardcourt bike polo in Auckland. The [...]

It was a case of déjà vu on Saturday as top triathletes from around the world converged on Auckland for the opening leg in the ITU World Series. Spaniard Javier Gomez took line honours in the elite men’s event, while Anne Haug of Germany won the women’s race. Both these athletes claimed gold last year [...]

AUT students featured strongly in the iconic 1609m Queen Street Golden Mile on Easter Monday as the event returned for the first time since 1983. One hundred and fourteen AUT students ran in the 600-participant event, which included professional athletes from home and abroad. Races in 1979, 1982 and 1983 only included International Association of [...]

AUT staff member Enri’que Flores has qualified for the ITU World Triathlon Championship Finals in London later this year.  Flores will represent New Zealand in the men’s 30-34 age bracket in September on the same track that was used in the Olympic Games. Although he doesn’t feel he had his best race when he qualified [...]