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CASTLEPOINT RACING CLUB (INC) Treasurer / Secretary

The Castlepoint Races are an iconic Wairarapa event spanning over 150 years and we are on the search for a super star to join our team. If you have administration and financial experience, love maintaining relationships and are organised then we would love to hear from you. This is a part time role where the hours vary throughout the year with the busiest time in the lead up to race day. You get an honorarium payment and accommodation on the weekend of the races. If you would like to know more or to apply please send your CV and covering letter to lorinah@hotmail.com by 11th December.

HOWARE YOUGETTING HOME TONIGHT?

If you’re out and having afew drinks, make sure you’ve got asober driver to get you home safely.

Employment

FARM WORK

Person required to shift long lateral irrigation sprinklers using a quad. Hours 7am to 9.30am and 2.30pm - 5pm approximately. Txt or Phone Joe 027 292 3457

To Place Your Notice

06 370 6033

Employment

PERMANENT CLEANER/LAUNDRY ASSISTANT

Carter Court requires a permanent part-time Cleaner/Laundry Assistant. Experience is not essential as full training will be given. These shifts are perfect for school hours. For further details please contact the Nurse Manager, Lynley Batson on (06) 379 8075 during usual business hours. Please email your CV and covering letter to: nursemanager@cartercourt.co.nz

Public Notices

GREYTOWN COMMUNITY BOARD BY-ELECTION NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN

A by-election is required to fill an extraordinary vacancy on the Greytown Community Board due to insufficient nominations during the 2022 elections. Nominations for this vacancy is now open. If you have a passion for local democracy in action and wish to make a difference to this Ward, then consider standing for the Greytown Community Board. You must be 18 or older, hold NZ citizenship, be registered to vote, and be nominated by two people who are on the Greytown Ward electoral roll. Nominations close at 12 noon on the 22nd of December. Copies of the nomination form and a by-election information sheet can be requested from the South Wairarapa District Council office, 19 Kitchener St, Martinborough, the Greytown Library, Main Street, Greytown or downloaded from www.swdc.govt.nz/ council/elections.

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Ski show kicks a winning touch

WATER SKIING CHRIS COGDALE

chris.cogdale@age.co.nz

Sarah Linton is crediting her combat sports training for improving her performance in barefoot water skiing.

The 29-year-old recently returned from the 2022 Oceania Water ski championships in Mulwala, New South Wales, with a gold medal as the fi rst women’s ultimate skiier champion, two silver medals, and three bronze medals.

Linton competed in her specialist barefoot division and came away with a silver medal in the jump and the team’s event and bronze medals in tricks, slalom and the overall championship before being selected to represent the New Zealand barefoot team in the Ultimate Skiier Championships.

The new event consisted of skiers competing in disciplines outside their comfort zone. They had to complete a fi ve-minute ski show, complete a slalom course on a ski, perform tricks on a wakeboard, and ski two passes of barefoot slalom.

Linton was nominated by the New Zealand barefoot team and put together a humorous ski show combining her kickboxing skills, in which she “fought and knocked out” the biggest member of the barefoot team and then proceeded to barefoot ski backwards around a very small lake, for a second placing.

She fi nished a credible third in the water ski on a slalom ski – an apparatus she is unaccustomed to – and was second in the wakeboard and fi rst in barefoot. The accumulated points earned Linton fi rst overall, and she was crowned women’s ultimate skier champion.

New Zealand assistant team manager and Linton’s father, Ross, said the Oceania championships produced some exceptional results for the New Zealand team, which included 10 skiers who had never competed in an international event, with most of them achieving personal bests, in an ideal build-up for the World Barefoot Championship to be held at Mulwala in February.

Linton believes much of her success is down to her training for Muay Thai kickboxing and boxing at Featherton’s Smac gym, under the guidance of Victoria and Quentin Parr.

“I hadn’t done a whole lot of training for water skiing, and I just sort of started again a few weeks ago. But I am so much stronger and fi tter on the water and light now, and that makes it easier,” she said.

Before returning to Australia, Linton’s focus will switch to the boxing ring and her fi rst professional fi ght against the experienced Holly McMath next Friday.

The 52kg [fl yweight] bout is the main professional event on the card at the Night of Mayhem at the Auckland Boxing Association Stadium, and the two boxers go in with contrasting records.

Linton said McMath has been fi ghting for a few years and won national titles, whereas she has had four Muay Thai kickboxing fi ghts for four wins and four losses and one boxing bout for a win. She was happy to go in as the outsider.

“I’m defi nitely coming in as the underdog, but there’s a lot of pressure on her [McMath], so we’re just going to come in and have fun and do what we can.”

Linton, an early childhood teacher, hopes to continue to juggle her busy schedule with both combat sports and barefoot waterskiing.

The latter she took up as a six-year-old, and started competing at 14, culminating in her representing New Zealand at the barefoot world championships in Canada in 2018.

Sarah Linton in the barefoot competition at the Oceania Waterski Championships.

Harpham’s aiming high Harpham’s aiming high

Scott Harpham [above and below] in the Cairns Ironman. PHOTOS/SUPPLIED

A top 10 world ranking and challenging for world championships are the long-term goals for recently turned professional Carterton triathlete, Scott Harpham.

The talented 30-year-old received his professional endorsement after fi nishing second in the 30-34 age group and 10th overall in the Cairns Ironman in Queensland in June. However, it took some convincing from Harpham before Triathlon NZ agreed to issue a professional license.

His time of eight hours, 51 minutes, 11 seconds was outside the 10 per cent time frame from the winner Australian Max Neumann, who ran a course record of 7hr 52:53, with Kiwi Braden Currie second about two minutes behind, and Australian Sam Appleton third in 8:05:53.

“I sent a message to Triathlon NZ and said these two guys have just come off a world champs where Braden was third overall, and I’m outside that 10 per cent, but the third place getter is ranked in the top 20 in the world and I’m within the 10 per cent of him,” Harpham said

“They accepted it and said it was a great time and were happy to support the professional endorsement.”

Turning professional has been the culmination of more than 18 months of training for Harpham, who gave up work in February 2021 to concentrate on his goal of being a top-line triathlete.

“I wanted to commit fulltime, and you don’t become the best in the world by doing anything half-assed, and I made the call then to quit work and commit fulltime to training, and I’ve done that since.”

Harpham, who is self-coached, works on a training regime of 25 to 30 hours a week swimming, cycling, and running as well as gym work, physiotherapy, saunas and the like.

Now that Harpham has done the groundwork, he just wants to get out and race and put in some good performances.

Harpham’s fi rst professional race will be the 70.3 Ironman in Taupo next month, followed in January by Tauranga half Ironman, featuring former world champion Javier Gomez from Spain. He will then contest the Challenge Wanaka half ironman in February before tackling Ironman NZ in March in Taupo.

Harpham’s short-term goals are to establish himself as a top New Zealand professional triathlete this summer.

“I would love to be ranked in the top 10 in the world and be right up there competing for a world championship.”

Sport

WHANGANUI CEMETERY CIRCUIT 26DEC

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW

GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

Come and see the team at Fagan’s

In January we’ll take to the skies to understand Wairarapa aquifers better

You might see a helicopter carrying a large hoop over the Ruamāhanga Valley from late-January. This equipment will be used to safely scan the valley’s aquifers* over two months.

* An aquifer is a layer of gravel or sand that holds or transports water below ground.

Better data, better decisions

The data we collect will be used to build a 3D map of the valley’s aquifers. This picture will help us all make better decisions about water in the future. This information is important as studies predict that climate change will increase average temperatures and drought in the Wairarapa over the coming decades. Find out more