Sport

It’s a big rugby weekend for Taupō with hundreds of younger players in town for the annual Heartland Under 16’s Carnival and the King Country Rams playing their only Taupō game of the Bunnings Heartland Rugby Championship.

People have just over two weeks to get their nominations in for the Taupō District Sports Awards.

In the last decade the Taupō Golf Club has thrown off the doldrums of the early 2000s when declining membership, a global financial crisis and a $1 million spend on fairway irrigation put its future in jeopardy.

The Taupō District Council has provided figures showing the impact of the ITM Taupō Super 440 leg of the Repco Supercars Championship in April this year.

The journey of Amelia Twiss (13) and George Fisher (12) to draw attention to what homeschoolers see as unsporting treatment has resulted in a very public lesson in politics and geography.

The sport of Triathlon must “thrive to survive” says World Triathlon President Antonio Fernández Arimany.

When people think of Taupō netball, Julia Panoa’s name is usually not far away.

Connor Halligan may be a drifter, but he’s got a clear idea of the line to take to get ahead in his chosen sport.

Despite the wind and the rain, 200 people were up bright and early on Saturday morning pounding the pavement between Two Mile Bay and Wharewaka.

There is only a slight parallel between the 1993 film Cool Runnings which depicts the Jamaican bobsleigh team’s efforts to get to the 1988 Winter Olympics and a team of college girls from Taupō heading to Hong Kong to play sevens.

Basketball coach Darryl (Daz) Karipa may not be sure how far his 2025 Lake Taupō Basketball Under 16 boys’ team will get in their basketball journey but he’s hoping they will have developed assured, confident personalities along the way.

A group of determined individuals from Tūwharetoa has returned from the Great Wall of China with medals, life-changing memories, and a renewed sense of what’s possible through teamwork, preparation, and community support.

A brand new endurance event takes place on Saturday with Two Mile Bay Sailing Club hosting the Pillar to Pou.

Winter is arriving on cue with snow forecast for next week and skifields opening for business.

Emerging New Zealand mountain bike star, Sammie Maxwell, produced a brilliant performance to emerge from the pack to claim runner-up in the third round of the Whoop UCI MTB Cross-country World Series in the Czech Republic.

The Taupō leg of the Supercars Championship has been extended by two years and another New Zealand event added to the schedule.

Whakapapa Holdings Ltd has plans to “regrow” the popularity of snow sports after finally obtaining a concession to operate the ski field on Mt Ruapehu.

Footage of Taupō woman Louisa Redward’s spectacular, unplanned dismount from a rope swing, that saw her land 50 metres down a bank has gone viral on social media.

A free licence, a lasting memento, and bragging rights: all of this is on the table for contenders in this year’s Taupō Fishery photo competition.

Tri-Sport Taupō Junior Development Team has had a summer of success, capped off with outstanding results at the recent Secondary School Triathlon Nationals.

It was the result everyone wanted on the weekend, with sunny weather, good crowds and a Kiwi win in the Taupō leg of the Supercars Championship.

It was the result Kiwis wanted with New Zealand hero Matt Payne taking out the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy, cantering to victory in a crushing performance at the ITM Taupō Super 440.

Taupō is rumbling with the sound of big V8 engines today as a procession of Mustangs and Camaros make their way through town to herald the arrival of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship.

Mountain biker Sammie Maxwell has created history, becoming the first New Zealand female to win a UCI MTB Cross-country World Cup.

The entire field of 24 supercars, spare parts and other equipment worth $40 million has sailed across the Tasman Sea and arrived in Taupō.

While he admits to not being too much into statistics, Generation Homes Lake Taupō Cricket Club (LTCC) batsman Archie Harrison managed to rack up plenty of runs for the club’s premier team this season.

A major boxing event planned for Taupō has been cancelled.

The New Zealand Show Jumping Season comes to an end this weekend with the final rounds of the National Series competition taking place in Taupō at the National Equestrian Centre from Thursday. 

It may not be essential to becoming national youth ranch horse champions to live just down the road from the only arena in the country that stages monthly events, but it probably helps.

Tūrangi Karate Club members Lisa Bell, daughter Emily Bell and Kataraina Mareikura-Fremlin, have returned from the TSKF/ISKF Australian Championships with medals.