News of New Zealanders via Global Media

One Point Closer to Hall of Fame for Lydia Ko

One Point Closer to Hall of Fame for Lydia Ko

New Zealander Lydia Ko has started her new season in style with victory at Florida’s Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions on the LPGA Tour, Mike Hall reports for the UK publication, Golf Monthly. Ko,…

Joe Schmidt New Wallabies Coach

Joe Schmidt New Wallabies Coach

Former Ireland coach New Zealander Joe Schmidt has vowed to “get Australia up and running” after being named as the new Wallabies boss, replacing Eddie Jones, AFP reports in a story published online at…

Finn Allen Slams Record-Equalling 16 Sixes

Finn Allen Slams Record-Equalling 16 Sixes

Finn Allen blasted a world-record-equalling 16 sixes in an innings of 137 from 62 balls as New Zealand beat Pakistan by 45 runs in the third Twenty20 international to take a winning 3-0 lead…

Warren Gatland Embodies a Great Coach

Warren Gatland Embodies a Great Coach

What makes Warren Gatland arguably one of rugby’s greatest coaches of all time – and, to many, the greatest? Most pundits and observers, professional or armchair, will give their reasons, but if we are…

Kim Cadzow’s Rapid Rise Through Pro Peloton

Kim Cadzow’s Rapid Rise Through Pro Peloton

Every pathway into professional cycling is different, but few are as unique and as varied as New Zealander Kim Cadzow’s, who until just a few years ago was a swimmer-turned-triathlete with a string of…

Mixed Win in Florida for Lydia Ko

Mixed Win in Florida for Lydia Ko

New Zealander Lydia Ko and Australia’s Jason Day have won the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational in Florida, the ABC News reports. Ko, 26, and Day, 36, posted their second-straight round of 6-under-par 66 to finish…

Sevens Coach Andrew Douglas Has Big Plans

Sevens Coach Andrew Douglas Has Big Plans

Hong Kong Sevens head coach New Zealander Andrew Douglas has said that two recent matches against Germany represented the first step towards “re-establishing Hong Kong in international rugby”, South China Morning Post journalist Paul…

Runner Garth Barfoot the Oldest in NY Marathon

Runner Garth Barfoot the Oldest in NY Marathon

Eighty-seven-year-old Aucklander Garth Barfoot was the oldest participant at this year’s New York City Marathon. Barfoot, who has run dozens of marathons, including last year’s London Marathon, said this was his first time running New…

Coronet Peak Star Natalie Urbani Skis a Title

Coronet Peak Star Natalie Urbani Skis a Title

Queenstown’s Natalie Urbani wrapped up the 2023 season with a “whopping 109 days on the mountains, 1,282,575 vertical metres and a total of 3574 runs”, essentially skiing down Mt Everest approximately 145 times, a…

New Zealand Curling Team Finds a Home

New Zealand Curling Team Finds a Home

New Zealander Ben Smith never could have imagined spending the winter at a retirement home in Calgary, Alberta, sipping Caesar cocktails with three of his best friends – Anton Hood (pictured), Brett Sargon and…

Glasgow’s Tom Jordan Looks Ahead to Scottish Side

Glasgow’s Tom Jordan Looks Ahead to Scottish Side

After a breakthrough season with Glasgow Warriors, New Zealander Tom Jordan, 25, now has his sights set on international honours for his adopted country, Graham Bean writes for The Scotsman. The Auckland-born stand-off will become…

New Zealand Concede Cup in Epic Contest

New Zealand Concede Cup in Epic Contest

“It was always going to be thunderous. These two fiercely proud nations have been playing rugby union against each other for 102 years but some games are bigger than others. You could see it…

Will Young Carves Place in New Zealand Team

Will Young Carves Place in New Zealand Team

“Will Young was playing senior team cricket at 19 but it is only at 30 that he’s carved his place in the national team. In all that time, he’s never given up,” Alagappan Muthu…

Tilt at a Record Fourth World Cup Crown

Tilt at a Record Fourth World Cup Crown

“To think New Zealand had entered this tournament with questions about their ability to assert themselves up front; this was a frightening display of forward strength, leaving Argentina’s Rugby World Cup dreams buried beneath…

Mitchell Santner Exemplifies Black Caps’ Class

Mitchell Santner Exemplifies Black Caps’ Class

“Whatever side they put on the park, the Black Caps are ruthlessly professional. Their batters are disciplined yet brutal, their bowlers feisty yet frighteningly accurate,” Welsh cricketer Ffion Wynne writes for BBC Sport. “They rarely…

New Zealand Hold off Ireland in Titanic Battle

New Zealand Hold off Ireland in Titanic Battle

“The agony goes on. Ireland must wonder what they have to do to break this quarter-final curse, how long to spend as No 1 in the world, how many grand slams to win, how…

Mourning the Passing Of Lumberjack Icon Jason Wynyard

Mourning the Passing Of Lumberjack Icon Jason Wynyard

The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series mourns the untimely passing of Jason Wynyard, nine-time Individual World Champion and Series “titan. Jason was much more than a world champion, he was a true legend, an inspiring and…

Formula One Trailblazer Liam Lawson Impresses

Formula One Trailblazer Liam Lawson Impresses

The emergence of Pukekohe-raised Liam Lawson has been one of the most surprising, feel good stories of Formula One in 2023, Luke Smith writes for The Athletic. Drafted in for the Dutch Grand Prix at…

Flying Under the Radar the Black Caps Cup-Set

Flying Under the Radar the Black Caps Cup-Set

Despite reaching the finals at the last two 50-overs World Cups, some fans and critics still view New Zealand as the underdogs. For stand-in captain Tom Latham, 31, that is not a cause for…

Aaron Smith Hat-Trick Inspires Italy Demo Job

Aaron Smith Hat-Trick Inspires Italy Demo Job

“There had been pre-match speculation that Italy might prove more than just a speed bump to All Black ambitions. So much for that cosy theory,” The Guardian’s Robert Kitson reports from OL Stadium in…

Bayleigh Teepa-Tarau Wins Out of the Blue

Bayleigh Teepa-Tarau Wins Out of the Blue

There are stellar debut performances, and then there is what Bayleigh Teepa-Tarau, 12, did in the golf tournament at New Zealand’s largest national youth sports competition, Sports Illustrated correspondent Patrick Andres writes. Teepa-Tarau, who is…

Motocross Star Courtney Duncan Wins Fourth Title

Motocross Star Courtney Duncan Wins Fourth Title

Fresh from her fourth FIM World Women’s Motocross Championship (WMX) victory, New Zealander Courtney Duncan, 27, is already contemplating where she can be better in 2024, Mat Kermeen writes for Stuff. Duncan iced her moment…

US Open Doubles Win for Erin Routliffe

US Open Doubles Win for Erin Routliffe

New Zealander Erin Routliffe, 28, (pictured left) and Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski, 31, beat former champions Laura Siegemund of Germany and Russia’s Vera Zvonareva 7-6(9) 6-3 to win the US Open women’s doubles final, Reuters…

Ryan Fox Rallies to Win European Tour’s Top Event

Ryan Fox Rallies to Win European Tour’s Top Event

Aucklander Ryan Fox, 36, overcame a 3-shot deficit and a triple bogey early in the final round at Wentworth in Surrey with six birdies on the back nine – the last one from 6…

Another Indy 500 Win for Scott Dixon

Another Indy 500 Win for Scott Dixon

Chaos reigned in the IndyCar season finale on the new, hot and dark asphalt of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna, James Raia writes for the Monterey Herald. But after two days of constant banter about the…

Black Caps Beat England in T20 to Tie Series

Black Caps Beat England in T20 to Tie Series

“Two games into this series England were rampant and New Zealand, in the words of their own captain, Tim Southee, were ‘rotten’. But on a balmy evening at Trent Bridge in which Jonny Bairstow’s…

Bruce McLaren’s Spirit Lives On

Bruce McLaren’s Spirit Lives On

“From dirt floor to state of the art: McLaren celebrate 60 years in F1”, The Guardian headline reads, with all thanks to its founder New Zealander Bruce McLaren. “What is perhaps most striking about this anniversary…

New Zealand Trying to Shake Off Losses

New Zealand Trying to Shake Off Losses

In recent weeks, a mood of cautious optimism swept through rugby fans and sports analysts in New Zealand. After a year of dismal performances, the All Blacks seem at times to have regained the…

Swimmer Cameron Leslie Wins Gold in Manchester

Swimmer Cameron Leslie Wins Gold in Manchester

Three-time Paralympic gold medallist swimmer Cameron Leslie, 33, produced a big finish to claim gold in the 50m backstroke S4 final at the Para Swimming World Championships in Manchester, Stuff reports. A thrilled Leslie said:…

Hall of Fame Induction for Burt Munro

Hall of Fame Induction for Burt Munro

Forty-five years after his death, Burt Munro continues to burn brightly in the minds of motorcyclists around the globe. The famed Indian-mounted Bonneville Speed Trials racer from New Zealand has been inducted into North…

F1 Legend Gets Drift Tips from Mike Whiddett

F1 Legend Gets Drift Tips from Mike Whiddett

In the world of motorsports, Formula 1 stands as the epitome of precision and breakneck speed. On the other hand, drifting is like an asphalt pirouette, where drivers deliberately make their cars slide on…

Iceman Scott Dixon Now IndyCar’s Ironman

Iceman Scott Dixon Now IndyCar’s Ironman

Scott Dixon grew up in Auckland until his racing dreams took him to Australia at age 16. And then two years later, accidentally, all the way to America. It is in the United States…

Football Fever Took Hold of New Zealand

Football Fever Took Hold of New Zealand

It was a fairy-tale beginning. In front of a noisy crowd of more than 40,000 fans at Eden Park in Auckland, the Football Ferns – the lowest-ranked team to host a Women’s World Cup…

First Football Ferns Fighting to Tell Their Story

First Football Ferns Fighting to Tell Their Story

While much has changed since New Zealand won the Women’s Asian Cup in 1975, their triumph remains largely unrecognised, Jeff Kassouf writes in a story published by The Guardian. Isobel Kennedy can still remember arriving…

Wallabies Thrashed by Clinical All Blacks

Wallabies Thrashed by Clinical All Blacks

“For a hot half-hour the Wallabies were golden. After two dismal defeats, they had rolled the dice in the biggest game of the year,” The Guardian’s Angus Fontaine reports from Melbourne. “This Bledisloe clash…

FIFA’s Sarai Bareman Readies for Women’s Cup

FIFA’s Sarai Bareman Readies for Women’s Cup

Ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Sarai Bareman, the association’s chief women’s football officer, was recently interviewed by The Weekend Australian Magazine. Bareman discusses which team she supports and how she sees…

Formula E Driver Nick Cassidy Wins Portland Leg

Formula E Driver Nick Cassidy Wins Portland Leg

A field of 22 drivers quietly zipped 32 laps, measuring some 100km, in June’s Southwire Portland E-Prix. From 10th on the grid, Nick Cassidy, 28, a New Zealander driving for Envision Racing, held off…

New Zealand Opens Stadiums to FIFA

New Zealand Opens Stadiums to FIFA

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 is being staged in ten stadiums in nine cities in New Zealand and Australia. A total of nine games will be played at Wellington’s Sky Stadium. The tournament…

Hugh McCutcheon joins the FIVB as a Senior Advisor

Hugh McCutcheon joins the FIVB as a Senior Advisor

The Olympic champion coach turned sports administrator will bring his knowledge and expertise to the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball’s strategic planning Renowned volleyball coach and sports administrator, Hugh McCutcheon, is joining the FIVB as a…

Touring McLaren’s High-Tech Woking Hide-Out

Touring McLaren’s High-Tech Woking Hide-Out

“Hidden away among woods and heathland on the edge of is the headquarters of the Formula 1 team McLaren. Seen from the air, the McLaren Technology Centre resembles a yin-yang, one side…

Formula E’s Evans and Cassidy Taking Top Spots

Formula E’s Evans and Cassidy Taking Top Spots

Formula E drivers and friends Mitch Evans, 28, and Nick Cassidy, 28, have spoken of their pride in flying the New Zealand flag high following their respective victories in the Berlin E-Prix double header…

Wisden Names Tom Blundell Cricketer of the Year

Wisden Names Tom Blundell Cricketer of the Year

“The Five Cricketers of the Year represent a tradition that dates back in Wisden to 1889, making this the oldest individual award in cricket. In 2023, Tom Blundell, 32, was one of the…

Arctic Ultra Fourth for Tim Hamlin

Arctic Ultra Fourth for Tim Hamlin

Originally from Gore, Melbourne-based Tim Hamlin completed the 6633 Arctic Ultra marathon in March, a self-supported race that sees athletes travel 617km through the Canadian Arctic in just nine days. It was Hamlin’s second…

ABs Set for Drastic Overhaul under Scott Robertson

ABs Set for Drastic Overhaul under Scott Robertson

“Sea change in the form of Scott Robertson’s eccentric new era will soon envelope the All Blacks. Just as the pre-World Cup timing of his national head coaching anointment shatters long-standing New Zealand rugby…

Tiger’s Caddie Steve Williams Looks Back on Tenure

Tiger’s Caddie Steve Williams Looks Back on Tenure

Working alongside Tiger Woods does not afford time to look up and smell the flowers. Woods won 13 of his 15 major titles with Steve Williams as caddie, a run the New Zealander quickly…

Scott Robertson to Succeed Ian Foster

Scott Robertson to Succeed Ian Foster

Crusaders coach Scott Robertson will succeed Ian Foster as head coach of the All Blacks after this year’s World Cup, the BBC reports. Robertson has been appointed on a four-year deal which will run to…

Endurance Racing Helps Will Hayward Beat Stress

Endurance Racing Helps Will Hayward Beat Stress

By day, New Zealander Will Hayward is dean of social sciences at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Outside its corridors, Hayward is running obsessed, a passion he developed in his mid-30s. Kate Whitehead interviews…

Career Shift for Hamilton’s Physio Angela Cullen

Career Shift for Hamilton’s Physio Angela Cullen

New Zealand-born performance coach Angela Cullen, 48, who joined the Formula 1 Mercedes team as physiotherapist for British driver Lewis Hamilton in 2016, has announced she is leaving the role for “a new adventure”,…

Hugh McCutcheon Spikes With New Book ‘Championship Behaviors’

Hugh McCutcheon Spikes With New Book ‘Championship Behaviors’

“Humility, clear expectations, and alignment on principles are essential components of all successful teams,” says Hugh McCutcheon, US Olympic gold medal volleyball coach. Talking on the Organizational Health Advantage podcast to…

Neil Wagner Strikes Gold in Famous Win

Neil Wagner Strikes Gold in Famous Win

“New Zealand became the fourth team in the game’s history to win after being asked to follow-on. They beat England by a single run, making them only the second to win by what is…

Brendon McCullum Embraces Rugby Roots

Brendon McCullum Embraces Rugby Roots

Brendon McCullum’s former rugby coach and mentor at Kings High School, Darryl Paterson, reveals the ‘incredible self-belief’ the England cricket coach showed as a six-hitting, hard-partying youngster, Ali Martin reports for The Guardian. From a…

Ali Riley Optimistic About Women’s Football

Ali Riley Optimistic About Women’s Football

While Ali Riley is certainly grateful for everything soccer has provided her on and off the field, the Angel City FC and New Zealand women’s national team captain is even more excited about what…

Bazball Revolution Could Change Test Cricket

Bazball Revolution Could Change Test Cricket

The England cricket team’s recent “fast and fearless”, and “wonderful”, approach to the game has been dubbed “Bazball”, after a nickname for England’s new coach, New Zealander Brendon McCullum who was appointed in May,…

UFC’s Israel Adesanya Fights on His Terms

UFC’s Israel Adesanya Fights on His Terms

New Zealander Israel Adesanya has cleared out most of his challengers and has faced criticism for some fights lacking flashy knockouts. “It’s a high-level game we play, but not everyone who watches is high-level,”…

Wales Rugby Welcomes Back Warren Gatland

Wales Rugby Welcomes Back Warren Gatland

New Zealander Warren Gatland made a sensational comeback as Wales head coach replacing fellow New Zealander Wayne Pivac after a disappointing year, Ben Coles reports for The Telegraph. “The very nature of a change-over at…

Shane van Gisbergen Wins Bathurst 1000

Shane van Gisbergen Wins Bathurst 1000

Aucklander Shane van Gisbergen, 33, (pictured right) now has more Supercars wins in one season than anybody else, after he and Australian Garth Tander, 45, surged to their second Bathurst 1000 title in three…