New Zealand's Rhys Thornbury has announced his retirement from skeleton.

three World Championships in all, finishing 11th at Königssee in a total time of 3 min 27.22sec.New Zealand

Pyeongchang.A total of 50 athletes from 24 nations competed in the skeleton events, where Thornbury was New

Egypt's world number ones are through to the semi-finals at the Professional Squash Association (PSA) US Open held at Drexel University's Daskalaskis Athletic Center.

Open champion is looking to add a third title to his name but he will have to overcome Paul Coll of New

Zealand in the last four.Coll beat Egypt's Tarek Momen in the quarter-finals in five games to book his

Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) will mark its 50th anniversary by celebrating the achievements of all 209

Zealand's Paralympians over the next two years in the run up to Tokyo 2020.New Zealand has now competed

 A photograph of the New Zealand Paralympic team who competed at the 1968 Tel Aviv Games ©PNZ"It's

Next month will mark exactly 50 years since the first team represented New Zealand at Tel Aviv 1968.

Sixteen Paralympians representing New Zealand travelled to the Tel Aviv Games in 1968, winning a gold

 At the Rio 2016 Paralympics, New Zealand won 21 medals in total, with nine gold. 

New Zealand has chosen weightlifter Kanah Andrews-Nahu to be its flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony

Zealand Team."

It’s my absolute pleasure to present Kanah with the New Zealand flag and name her as the flagbearer.

 "She’s the perfect person to lead the New Zealand team into the Opening Ceremony."

Zealand National Championships, the teenager broke eight national records in the under-75 kilogram category

Zealand at these Games."

Three women have today been added to the World Baseball Softball Confederation's (WBSC) Athletes' Commission.

WBSC welcomes and congratulates these new athlete representatives and leaders," said WBSC President Riccardo

Australia and Maria Soto of Venezuela currently co-chair the Athletes' Commisison.Nathan Nukunuku of New

Zealand is also a member.All members must have been a part of their country's top national side and

Considering that he was not hit, Aston Villa's manager Steve Bruce seemed awfully affronted that someone in the crowd during his side's home game against Preston North End on Tuesday (October 2) threw a cabbage at him.

of what or who it did reach.A year after that motorcycle madness, a 2002 World Cup warm-up between New

Zealand and Chile in Auckland was interrupted when one supporter threw a car door onto the pitch, prompting

wheelbarrows onto the pitch.When Real Madrid's former Barcelona midfielder Luis Figo returned to play for his new

Sobotka collects an octopus during a time-out at the last NHL game at Joe Louis Arena, between the New

The full line-up has been confirmed for the 2019 Men's Under-19 World Floorball Championships in Halifax in Canada, with all qualification tournaments now completed.

Germany, Slovenia, Russia, Japan and New Zealand have all qualified from the European and Asia, Oceania

Norway.Division B features Poland, Germany, Canada, the United States, Slovenia, Russia, Japan and New

Zealand.

David Gerrard has been appointed as President of Swimming New Zealand (SNZ).

The Commonwealth Games gold medallist is also a former New Zealand team Chef de Mission as well as chair

Zealand team doctor from 1982 to 1986.He was the team health leader at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games,

before being appointed as New Zealand's Chef de Mission for the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games and

Zealand President and I look forward to working with the SNZ board and staff," Gerrard said.David Gerrard

has served Swimming New Zealand in a variety of roles since retiring from competitive swimming ©SNZ/

Poland's Marcin Pochwala and Aleksandra Stach, winners of a solitary bronze medal during the Canoe Slalom World Cup season, became the C2 mixed world champions in Rio de Janeiro.

104.18, with Ursa Kragelj from Slovenia second on 105.45 and Rio 2016 silver medallist, Luuka Jones of New

Zealand, third fastest on 105.87.Defending champion Jessica Fox of Australia qualified sixth fastest.Savsek

London 2012 Paralympic champion Vasyl Kovalchuk from Ukraine won gold at the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup in Chateauroux in France.

finishing with a score of 253.2 points.It was enough to beat his nearest rival, Michael Johnson from New

Zealand, by exactly one point.The Kiwi, who won Paralympic gold in the same event at Athens 2004, was

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) has released an updated set of world ultimate rankings, following the results of three recent major championships. 

The new rankings see the United States continue to hold the top spot after several impressive recent

 New Zealand are now tied for ninth with Switzerland completing the top ten."

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani claims growing the number of women playing the sport in the country will be an important priority during his tenure.

teams play series of three one-day internationals on a home or away basis.The top three teams will join New

Zealand at the 2021 World Cup, while remaining teams will have to play in a qualifying event.

The new flagship initiative of the Harvey Norman Para Sport National Development Programme, the Paralympics

New Zealand Pathway to Podium camp, has been successfully launched in the country.

emerging Para athletes attended the event, some of whom are involved in the High Performance Sport New

Zealand Pathway to Podium programme.Others are World Championship level Para athletes working towards

included a series of development workshops focused on educating the participants on the Paralympics in New

Zealand and around the world.The athletes also learnt how to build their profiles, maximise personal

ZealandThe participants also got to try out a new Para sport when the Parafed Auckland Shooting Club

It was 4.30am when the phone rang in my room at the media village in Seoul on September 27, 1988. "Get your backside down to the press centre, there’s a massive story breaking," urged my good friend John  Goodbody, of The Times. "Ben Johnson’s been done for doping!”

butts.When the result was announced pandemonium broke out in the arena and referee Keith Walker of New

Zealand was attacked by members of the Korean coaching team.

exist as such before the next Olympic Games in Barcelona as the Iron Curtain lifted to reveal a brave new

Australia completed the clean sweep as they overcame New Zealand 60-55 to clinch the Quad Series title

solid defensive display to record their third straight success at the Quad Series.The triumph over New

Zealand came after victories against South Africa and England, who beat them in the final of April's

Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.Australia proved too strong for New Zealand as they claimed their third