By all accounts, Contact Epic 2019 was a phenomenal success and lived up to its name. “Brilliant weather, brilliant volunteers and brilliant riders,” according to race director Danielle Nicholson. The 2019 Contact Epic had every element...... Read More

Local Paralympic gold medallist Adam Hall reigned supreme during an awards ceremony in Cromwell last Friday to recognise outstanding achievements in the 2018 sporting year. The Wanaka-based alpine skier received the Supreme Sports Award and Bruce Grant...... Read More

The third season of the ANZ Premiership has taken off, and as the community netball season kicks off, ANZ is asking Wanaka netballers what their netball dreams look like. All successful teams have an x-factor, an element that gives them the edge. It...... Read More

Wanaka AFC picked up their second win of the season with goals either side of halftime to Barry Grehan and Danillo Santana allowing the Wanaka men to make a perfect home debut. The 2-1 win over Northern AFC, at the Wanaka Recreation Centre, has WAFC...... Read More

  In a highly anticipated, hotly contested local derby Wanaka AFC lost to Queenstown AFC 4-1, in a match where experience and the clinical finishing of Queenstown attacking duo Jan Kumar and Carlos Herrmann would prove to be the difference....... Read More

  More than 1000 people chose pedal-power to make their way to and from Wanaka on the last day of 2018. Active Transport Wanaka (ATW), a collective of local organisations committed to developing a safe and connected biking and walking network...... Read More

  With a balanced team, anything is possible. Team Perpetual Guardian set that benchmark last week by being the first equal-gendered team to nab the GODZone adventure race champion trophy. Wanaka-based Simone Maier, Emily Wilson and Marcel...... Read More

  This year the three Wanaka men’s teams officially joined the Wanaka Associated Football Club. The merger of junior and senior teams into one club will give a pathway for all members of the club to one day play for the club’s top...... Read More

On Friday, March 8, Mount Aspiring College teams took out three titles at the 2019 Otago Secondary School Futsal Championships. MAC took five teams to this year’s tournament: Junior Girls, Junior Boys, Senior Girls B, Senior Girls A and Senior...... Read More

    A silver medal at the FIS Freeski Halfpipe World Cup in Calgary on February 16 has put Wanaka’s Nico Porteous to the top of the World Cup Tour leaderboard. Porteous went into the competition just 10 points behind Canada’s...... Read More