“Beat me on my turf and I’ll quintuple the prize pot” from Wanaka elite Triathlete Tony Dodds.

The development of star track cyclist Jesse Sergent into a world class road rider was honoured at the BikeNZ Road and Track Cyclist of the Year Awards in Christchurch on Friday.

Celebrated kiwi triathletes Cameron Brown and Joanna Lawn added to their celebrity with victories in the 23rd Port of Tauranga Half at Mount Maunganui today.

In an incredible display of cycling power, Nicky Samuels has won the National Road Cycling Championships yesterday with Kate McIlroy in third as triathletes stamped their class on the event in Christchurch.

It is the start of 2012 and already many people are putting New Year resolutions to lose weight into practice.

 In 2011 Elina Ussher was odds-on favourite to dominate the Speight’s Coast to Coast. After a resounding victory in 2010, there didn’t appear to be anyone capable of challenging the Finnish-born Nelsonian.

 Manawatu professional Jesse Sergent has been lauded as one of world’s rising cycling stars.

Enterprising form last month has earned young female sprinters Natasha Hansen and Katie Schofield the opportunity to press a late claim for Olympic selection.

Kiwi retailer Swimmerbro is the new name on the side of Swimming New Zealand to kick-start 2012.

 Nikki Hamblin, dual Commonwealth Games silver medallist, headlines the field for an exciting new addition to the International Track Meet, New Zealand's premier athletics meeting, to be held in Christchurch on February 4th. Hamblin, New Zealand's premier athlete at 800 and 1500m, will contest the Brian Taylor Memorial 3000m, named in honour of Canterbury coach Brian Taylor, who lost his life in the February earthquake.

Four World Tour professionals will headline next month’s RaboDirect Elite Road National Championships in Christchurch.

More than 500 people will be diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer and 80 more will die this summer according to a top New Zealand dermatologist.

The 49th annual Lake Taupo Across the Lake Swim is being held on Saturday 25 February 2012 and this year the event will be providing three options for swimmers.

Our bodies are supremely adapted to maintaining a very stable core operating temperature of 37 degrees. Any deviation above or below this can be tolerated at the peripheries but the brain, heart, lungs and muscles will not tolerate even a small deviation of one or two degrees.

“I went home from school that day and told my parents I'd had enough and wanted to amputate”. These were the chilling words of Byron ‘Buzz’ Raubenheimer, a young man born with Paraxial Fibula Hemimelia where one leg is significantly shorter than the other.

Three inspiring teenagers will have their first year of tertiary study partially funded after being awarded scholarships through the GABA Charitable Trust and the Cartier BereavementTrust.

There’s extra incentive for New Zealand’s best open water swimmers at next month’s Olympic selection event in Taupo.

A majority New Zealanders (63%) are now either overweight or obese, according to the recently released Roy Morgan New Zealand State of the Nation Report 3 - a major study of New Zealanders spanning over ten years and 120,000 interviews.

When Elizabeth Faumuina is caught napping under her desk - nobody bats an eyelid. In fact, she gets applause when she wakes up.

The new Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail from Aoraki Mount Cook to the Oamaru coastline has developed a bold and easily recognisable brand to fulfil two objectives: first, to make it super easy for cyclists and walkers to find their way and second, to establish a brand and identity around the distinctive communities that surround the trail.
 

She’s the steadfast ally any woman would want – particularly those desiring a family life. When it comes to mothering there isn’t much that Lynda Bailey hasn’t seen, dealt with and assisted.

Southland’s Natalie Wiegersma continues to lead the way for kiwi swimmers in the Queensland championships in Brisbane.

A new survey has shown that when it comes to spreading Christmas cheer, Kiwis will spend more on their dogs than their partners.

QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand – Tuesday 13 December 2011 – A luxuriously appointed, dedicated room specially designed to pamper hands and feet has opened in Kawarau Village as the completion to eforea: spa at Hilton.

Oasis sunscreen manufactured in Christchurch, New Zealand has found itself being used in the most extreme environments including atop the world’s highest mountains.