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GYMNASTICS
Times photos Wayne Martin
HPPA Schools Gymnastics comp fi nally goes ahead
Nearly 500 gymnasts descended on Howick for the HPPA [Howick Pakuranga Principals Association] Schools Gymnastics Competition which ended earlier this month.
Howick Gymnastic Club centre manager Monique Gapes said they have not been able to run this event since 2019, with last year’s event being cancelled due to the August lockdown – a week before they were due to compete. “Although not as large as previous years due to Covid restraints, this year we had almost 500 gymnasts from year 3-6 from 16 different schools compete over the three days of competition,” said Gapes.
“The teachers and students have been working hard to perfect their gymnastics routines since term 2. Our judges were very impressed with the talent of students competing this year with a number of students receiving perfect 10s on some apparatus.”
Girls competed in three events – the beam, vault and fl oor while the boys competed on the vault, bar and fl oor.
RESULTS:
FRIDAY Year 3 girls
Miané Nel – Shelley Park, 1; Melody Mclnosh – Shelley Park, 2; Nadine Jooste – Elim, 3. Year 3 boys Jason Dykgraaf – Elim, 1; Daniel Mansell – Elim, 2; Daniel Harris – Shelley Park, 3.
Year 4 girls
Zarah McLaren – Wakaraanga, 1; Skyla Hunt – Shelley Park, 2; Ava Armstrong – Wakaaranga, 3.
Year 4 boys
Joshua Daniel – Maraetai Beach, 1; Tristen McCamish – Shelley Park, 2; Fletcher Terry – Maraetai Beach, 3.
Year 5 girls
Ella Chapman – Owairoa, 1; Sacha White – Owairoa, 2; Danika Henderson – Maraetai Beach, 3.
Year 5 boys
Cooper Clarke – Maraetai Beach, 1; Divan Meiring – Macleans, 2; Jacob Aye – Macleans, 3.
Year 6 girls
Tamsin McCamish – Shelley Park, 1; Hayley Gibson – Shelley Park, 2; Alabama Church – Owairoa, 3.
Year 6 boys
Fletcher du Toit – Shelley Park, 1; Bevan Wade – Shelley Park, 2; James Tinson – Shelley Park, 3.
THURSDAY Year 3 girls
Lydia Ruan – Sunnyhills, 1; Sharva Tomar – Point View, 2; Amelia Jack – Botany Downs, 3. Year 3 boys Reed Chen – Point View, 1; Oliver Yang – Point View, 2; Oscar Fisher – Cockle Bay, 3.
Year 4 girls
Charlotte Chang – Cockle Bay, 1; Yasmin Leef – Sunnyhills, 2; Ella Waterman – Cockle Bay, 3.
Year 4 boys
Aleksei Zaplatkin – Point View, 1; Aston Dean – Sunnyhills, 2; Ethan Sihamu – Cockle Bay, 3.
Year 5 girls
Scarlett Leach – Cockle Bay, 1st=; Charlize Chang – Cockle Bay , 1st=; Celestine Zhang – Point View, 3.
Year 5 boys
Sam Chan – Cockle Bay, 1; Cooper Green – Sunnyhills, 2; Ashton Morris – Sunnyhills, 3.
Year 6 girls
Anabelle Warner – Cockle Bay, 1; Willow Carnegie – Willowbank, 2; Ava Dinneen – Cockle Bay, 3.
Year 6 boys
Ben O’Hanlon – Cockle Bay, 1; Lucas Zhao – Cockle Bay, 2; Carlos Harvey – Sunnyhills, 3.
WEDNESDAY Year 3 girls
Ellie Jia – Pigeon Mountain, 1; Natalie Middlemiss – Mellons Bay, 2; Marwa Jacob – Baverstock Oaks, 3.
Year 3 boys
Sam Le – Baverstock Oaks, 1; Hamish Sang – Mellons Bay, 2; Noah King – Mellons Bay, 3.
Year 4 girls
Ella Campbell – Pigeon Mountain, 1; Maddy Rodgers – Star of the Sea, 2; Emma Lam – Baverstock Oaks, 3.
Year 4 boys
Ethan Vorster – Star of the Sea, 1; Oliver Hey – Mellons Bay, 2; Kailin Yang – Mellons Bay, 3.
Year 5 girls
Lilly Punnet – Baverstock Oaks, 1; Tiffany Guan – Mellons Bay, 2; Cassidy Cho – Mellons Bay, 3.
Year 5 boys
Teddy Lightfoot – Mellons Bay, 1.
Year 6 girls
Eden Tan – Mellons Bay, 1; Diané Gerber – Bucklands Beach, 2; Katya Middlemiss – Mellons Bay, 3.
Year 6 boys
Leon Fisk – Mellons Bay, 1; Rylan Girven – Bucklands Beach, 2; Arden Arama – Bucklands Beach, 3.
Russo-Nance heads to US
Saint Kentigern College’s Dontae Russo-Nance, 17, has left for the United States where he has accepted a basketball scholarship at the prestigious Oak Hill Academy.
Russo-Nance, who has dominated for St Kents in the premier competition this year, has also played the last two seasons in the NBL as a guard for the Auckland Huskies last year and Auckland Tuatara and was named the league’s youth player of the year.
MOTORSPORT Rally stars ready to rock and roll
Some of the biggest names in international motorsport will soon descend on rural east Auckland for an event staged as part of the 2022 Repco Rally New Zealand.
The fi nal day’s competition is at ‘Jacks Ridge Haunui’, on the Whitford property of former national rally champion Andrew Hawkeswood, which is named after his son, successful rally driver Jack Hawkeswood.
It’s the fi rst time Rally NZ is back in Auckland for more than a decade with events running from September 29 to October 2 as round 11 of the FIA World Rally Championship.
Organisers say the purposebuilt 7km stage Jacks Ridge stage will be run twice on October 2, including as the ‘Wolf Power Stage’ which ends the event and offers extra championship points that may crown the 2022 World Rally Champion.
The Whitford farm of former national rally champion Andrew Hawkeswood is set to play host to the final stage of this year’s Repco Rally New Zealand.
Times le photo Wayne Martin time winner of the World Rally Drivers’ Championship.
He’s set to face off against numerous other overseas drivers as well as Kiwi motorsport stars including Hayden Paddon and Shane van Gisbergen.
Rally NZ chief executive Michael Goldstein says: “Motorsport fans are buzzing to have the World Rally Championship back in this country.
“We are going to celebrate the greatest show on dirt across Auckland with the world’s best drivers on show.
“Thanks to the Hawkeswood family we have an incredible stadium-like stage right here on the edge of the city.
“Jacks Ridge will be a gamechanger for the sport both with the viewing on offer and the spectacular action, and for that we owe an incredible debt to Andrew Hawkeswood.
“We’re lucky he’s had the vision to turn this landfi ll into something special for the sport.”
The action at the Whitford property on October 2 will feature a full day of entertainment including a showcase of historic rally cars and other iconic vehicles driven by cross-code motorsport stars in a special event over the course.
Among those set to take part are international speedway star Michael Pickens, Kiwi drifting legend ‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett piloting his stadium truck, and quadbike driver Ian Ffi tch.
It will also feature Ari Prettigrew driving Hayden Paddon’s Hyundai Kona electric rally car, Shane van Gisbergen’s father Robert van Gisbergen in his historic Ford Escort, and Alister McRae, a member of the world-famous McRae rallying family, driving his Subaru Impreza. For more information and to
