Sport In Brief

Table Tennis For All

Marlborough Table Tennis will be holding its opening night for the 2023 season tonight, March 28, at 6.30pm at the Blenheim Sports Centre in Battys Road. Past, present and new members are welcome. Entry is a gold coin donation. A raffle will be run on the night and the gold coin will give you a ticket in the draw. Light supper provided and bats supplied.

Javelin Star On Move

Former Marlborough athlete Abbey Moody has been awarded an athletics scholarship with Stanford University in San Francisco. Abbey is the current NZ under-20 women’s javelin champion and is ranked second in the senior women’s age group.

Back On Top

International dressage duo Melissa Galloway and her mount Windermere J’Obei W, pictured below, are back in business. A serious leg injury had sidelined Melissa for several months, but she and ‘Joey’ returned to action at the Taupo CDI 3*, their first competition back on NZ soil after a stint in Europe. They came away with two new personal best scores in both the Grand Prix (72.19%) and the Grand Prix Special (73.19%), ending up with three wins and champion Grand Prix title.

Rod Thompson

Antony Clark

Paul O’Donnell

Peter Jones

Richie Marsden

Greg Somerville

Jayden MacDonald

Brad Taylor

Matt Ryan

Terry Duff

Glenn Kirby

Simon Muir

Hockey Honours

Marlborough hockey players Jo Jones and Natasha Veltman were recently named in the New Zealand over-45 women’s team to take on their Australian counterparts in a three-test trans-Tasman Masters series in May. Fellow Marlborough player Andrew Nation was included in the men’s over-40 squad after the national Masters tournament in Tauranga.

Rally Victory For Kennard

Marlborough-based rally stalwart John Kennard continues to enjoy success at the top level. The vastly-experienced co-driver and driver Hayden Paddon won the recent FIA European Rally Championship round at Rally Serras de Fafe in Portugal. He beat Mikko Heikkilä to the title in his Hyundai, a first for the car manufacturer.

Junior Tennis Champions

The Pita Pit Junior Residential Tennis Tournament was played at the Forrest Winery Marlborough Tennis Club on March 11-12. Winners were: Singles - Boys 8 Monty Muir; B 10 Alex Watmough-Smith; B 12 Max Sowman; B 14 Josh Harris; B 18 Dan Clarke. Girls 10 Amy Watmough-Smith; G12 Mia Harris; G14 Issy O’Brien. Mixed doubles – Dan Clarke/ Jemima O’Donnell. Doubles –B10 Ned Bell/Finnbar Duncan; B12 Zihan Hong/Rob Keown; B14 Josh Harris/Max Sowman. G10 Amy Watmough-Smith/Joy Xu; G12 Sadie Eradus/Mia Harris; G14 Emily Preece/Josephine Walkenhorst.

David Sutherland

Michael Winkler

Jamie Norton

Warren Cairns

Rob Hellstrom

Terry Renner

Susan Barron

Chris Goodyer

Mike Newman