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Black Ferns start their season with a free match against the Black Ferns XV in Upper Hutt
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- The busiest part of the Black Ferns year starts on Friday afternoon at a suburban sports ground in Upper Hutt, in front of a crowd that will not pay anything to get through the gate. New Zealand Rugby has put the national side up against the Black Ferns XV, its own development team, at Maidstone […]
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All Blacks shut out the Sharks 54-0 in the Durban rain
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- Eight tries in the wet at Kings Park gave the All Blacks a 54-0 win over the Sharks and a second victory on their South Africa tour.
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Ana Noovao, the 15th Silver Ferns captain, has died aged 58
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- Netball New Zealand says the former Silver Ferns captain and Cook Islands coach died on Sunday in Rockhampton after a long illness.
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Scott Robertson offered a four year contract to coach Christchurch’s NRL bid team
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- Southern Orcas chairman Sir Graham Lowe says the Christchurch bid for the NRL's twentieth licence has made the former All Blacks coach a four year offer.
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Canterbury win the Ranfurly Shield back from Otago for a record 18th time
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- Canterbury have taken the Ranfurly Shield back to Christchurch, beating holders Otago 19-15 at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin on Sunday afternoon to claim the trophy for a record eighteenth time. The challenge was the second round match of the 2026 Hilux NPC and a replay of last season’s final, which Canterbury won. It was […]
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Southland Sharks and Wellington Saints play for the NBL title in Invercargill today
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- The national basketball league grand final returns to Invercargill this afternoon for the first time in a decade, with the Southland Sharks hosting the defending champion Wellington Saints at ILT Stadium Southland. The game is scheduled to tip off at 3.09pm, and it is a rematch of last year’s decider, which the Saints won. Southland […]
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Tysha Ikenasio hat-trick lifts the Warriors women past the Knights in Hamilton
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- Tysha Ikenasio scored three tries as the Warriors women beat the Newcastle Knights 22-14 in Hamilton on Saturday night.
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Ma’a Nonu named on the Sharks bench to face the All Blacks in Durban
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- Ma’a Nonu will run out against the All Blacks on Wednesday morning New Zealand time, eleven years after he last pulled on the jersey himself. The Durban-based Sharks have named the 44-year-old on the bench in the number 23 jersey for the second fixture of New Zealand’s tour of South Africa, at Kings Park on […]
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Chelsea play at Eden Park today in the first visit by a Women’s Super League club to New Zealand
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- The reigning English Women’s Super League champions will run out at Eden Park at 4pm today, and it will be the first time a club from that competition has played a match in New Zealand. Chelsea F.C. Women face an Auckland FC Women’s Invitational XI, a side assembled specially for the fixture, in the second […]
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Angus Ta’avao reaches 300 first-class games as Auckland host Wellington at Western Springs
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- Auckland prop Angus Ta'avao plays his 300th first-class game against Wellington today, 16 years after a nervous debut off the bench at Eden Park.
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Luke Metcalf scores two tries as the Warriors beat competition leaders Penrith
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- The Warriors beat the Penrith Panthers 28 to 12 at Go Media Stadium on Friday night, beating the competition leaders at home for the first time in seven years and lifting the Auckland side into the thick of the race for the minor premiership. Halfback Luke Metcalf was the difference. He scored two tries and […]
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All Blacks open their eight game South Africa tour against the Stormers in Cape Town
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- The All Blacks begin the most unusual assignment of their modern era early on Saturday morning New Zealand time, walking out at DHL Stadium in Cape Town to face the Stormers in the opening match of an eight game tour of South Africa. Kick off is 7.10pm Friday local time, which is 5.10am Saturday back […]
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Netball New Zealand is talking to a private investor about running a new league from 2028
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- Netball New Zealand has held talks with at least one private investor about setting up a new franchise league in 2028, a move that would hand the running of the country’s top domestic competition to outside owners for the first time. RNZ reported this week that a source with knowledge of the discussions described the […]
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David Nyika fights Floyd Masson in Auckland on Saturday with a world title shot waiting for the winner
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- David Nyika climbs through the ropes at Auckland’s Eventfinda Stadium on Saturday night one fight away from the biggest opportunity of his professional career. The Hamilton-raised cruiserweight meets Floyd Masson over 12 rounds in an International Boxing Federation final eliminator, and whoever has his hand raised on the North Shore leaves with the governing body’s […]
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Joseph Parker says he will be back in the ring after his suspension is lifted
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- Joseph Parker is going to fight again. The former world heavyweight champion said on Wednesday that the provisional suspension keeping him out of the ring since November has been lifted, ending more than nine months of limbo for the most successful boxer New Zealand has produced. “I’m pleased to confirm my provisional suspension is lifted […]
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Suzie Bates signs with Otago for the first time in 20 years
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- New Zealand’s most decorated cricketer has gone back to where she started. Suzie Bates has signed a domestic contract with Otago Cricket for the first time since 2006, and will play her 23rd domestic season for the Otago Sparks this summer. Otago Cricket named the first 11 contracted players in its 2026/27 women’s squad this […]
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Jackson Ford re-signs with the Warriors through to the end of 2029
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- The Warriors have extended front-rower Jackson Ford by two years to the end of 2029, a vote of confidence in a player sidelined since June with a torn pectoral muscle.
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New Zealand Football wants Oceania united on the future of FIFA boss Gianni Infantino
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- New Zealand Football chief executive Andrew Pragnell says the collapsed plan to sell a stake in the World Cup has shaken confidence across the game, and he wants Oceania to move as one.
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Hamish Kerr returns to competition in Poland after a season lost to burnout
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- Olympic high jump champion Hamish Kerr will return to competition later this month, drawing a line under a season he spent away from the runway while he recovered from burnout. RNZ reported on Wednesday morning that the Cantabrian will jump at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia, Poland, on 23 August. It will be his […]
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Sophie Woods runs 2000km across the Alps in 29 days to break the Via Alpina record
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- Christchurch-born ultrarunner Sophie Woods has crossed eight countries in 29 days to take the outright Via Alpina record, six days faster than the previous best.
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New Zealand finishes sixth in Glasgow with 36 medals from its smallest team since 1982
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- New Zealand closed the Glasgow Commonwealth Games sixth on the medal table with 36 medals from 114 athletes, beating its target and posting its best return per athlete in decades.
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All Blacks begin their first full tour of South Africa since 1996
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- The All Blacks begin their first full tour of South Africa since 1996 this weekend, an eight match trip that runs for six weeks, takes in four tests against the Springboks and finishes, oddly enough, in Baltimore. The tour opens against the Stormers at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, kicking off at 5am on Saturday […]
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Silver Ferns beat Jamaica to win Commonwealth Games netball gold after 16 years
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- New Zealand beat Jamaica 56-48 in Glasgow to win Commonwealth Games netball gold for the first time since 2010, finishing the tournament unbeaten.
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Sydnee Andrews wins New Zealand’s first Commonwealth judo gold in 36 years
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- The 23-year-old from Gisborne won all three of her Glasgow bouts by ippon to become the first New Zealand woman to win Commonwealth Games judo gold.
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Warriors thump Titans 42-6 to keep a home final in play
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- Eight tries to one on the Gold Coast lifts the Warriors to a 13th win and keeps a top-two finish and a home September final within reach.
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Silver Ferns play for Commonwealth Games netball gold after Jamaica knock Australia out
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- Jamaica's one goal upset of Australia has opened the door for the Silver Ferns, who beat England 61-54 to reach their first Commonwealth Games final since 2014.
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Richie Mo’unga scores the winning try on his NPC return as Canterbury edge Auckland 38-31
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- Richie Mo'unga came off the bench in his first NPC match since 2020 and scored the winning try in the 78th minute as Canterbury beat Auckland 38-31 at One New Zealand Stadium in Christchurch.
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Devon Briggs wins Commonwealth Games gold in record time as Ellesse Andrews exits the sprint
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- Para-cyclist Devon Briggs set a Commonwealth Games record to win the 1000m time trial in Glasgow, while Sami Donnelly took a second silver and Olympic champion Ellesse Andrews went out in the sprint quarter-finals.
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Eliza McCartney wins Commonwealth Games pole vault gold in Glasgow, with Imogen Ayris taking bronze
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- Eliza McCartney has won the Commonwealth Games pole vault title at Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow, holding off defending champion Nina Kennedy of Australia and taking New Zealand’s second athletics gold of the Games. McCartney cleared 4.65m in a final held on Friday evening in Scotland, which was early on Saturday morning back home. Kennedy matched […]
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Tom Walsh loses Commonwealth shot put gold by four centimetres in Glasgow
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- Tom Walsh led the Commonwealth Games shot put final in Glasgow for four rounds, and then lost it by four centimetres. The Timaru thrower opened with 21.03 metres on his first attempt at Scotstoun Stadium, a distance that held up through the middle of the competition and looked for a long time like it would […]
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