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Poland’s Olympic hammer throw champions Wlodarczyk and Nowicki triumph in Bydgoszcz

  • Athletics

The Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz produced the expected thunderous hammer-throwing action tonight as three-times Olympic women’s champion Anita Wlodarczyk maintained her unbeaten run and Olympic men’s champion Wojciech Nowicki narrowly beat compatriot and four-times world champion Pawel Fajdek.

off him in the following round with a throw of 80.19m.Meanwhile in the men’s shot put, Tom Walsh of New

Zealand, the 2017 world champion, won the battle of the giants with the athlete who took that title


FIG publishes new Code of Conduct outlining expected standards of behaviour

  • Gymnastics

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has published its new Code of Conduct, outlining standards

treatment.Scandals have also hit the sport in countries such as Australia, Britain, Greece, The Netherlands, New

Zealand and Switzerland.FIG President Morinari Watanabe said the Code of Conduct served to remind "everyone

While in some parts of the world, new generations of practitioners, coaches and executives developed



Wlodarczyk returns for more hammer-throw glory at Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz

  • Athletics

Poland’s National Treasure, three-times Olympic women’s hammer champion Anita Włodarczyk, is set to offer home fans another performance to remember at the Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz tomorrow.

include international teammate and Olympic bronze medallist Malwina Kopron, Finland’s Krista Tervo and New

Kovacs of the United States and double Olympic bronze medallist and 2017 world champion Tom Walsh of New

Zealand."


New Zealand missing Pacific Mini Games to focus on Birmingham 2022, official claims

  • Birmingham 2022

New Zealand is not attending this month's Pacific Mini Games in Saipan because the country is focussing

New Zealand is not coming in their three invited sports because they are committed to the Commonwealth

said.Marco Peter, the chair of the Pacific Mini Games Organising Committee, said he was "disappointed" that New

of Australia and New Zealand has long been a topic of debate for the Pacific Games.The presence of New

presence could help raise standards, especially if they are restricted to invited sports.Australia and New

Vanuatu.The athletes both teams have sent have often been developmental.insidethegames has approached the New



Wie determined to savour penultimate US Open, Ko starts as favourite

  • Golf

Michelle Wie West’s announcement that she will play only two more tournaments has guaranteed that she will attract the attention when she tees off in the US Women's Open at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in her penultimate major.

 World number three Lydia Ko of New Zealand has not finished outside the top 25 so far this season



Bol shatters 300m hurdles world best at Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava

  • Athletics

Olympic 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist Femke Bol of The Netherlands shattered the world best time for the rarely-run 300m hurdles by more than a second as she clocked 36.86 seconds at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.

United States won the men’s shot put with 22.25 metres, ahead of former world champion Tom Walsh of New

Zealand, who had a best of 21.68m.Aminatou Seyni of Nigeria won the women’s 200m in a national record


Coll and King selected for New Zealand Commonwealth Games squash team

  • Squash

Men's world number one Paul Coll and women's world number seven Joelle King are to headline New Zealand's

Landers-Murphy in pursuit of the women's doubles gold ©Getty ImagesLwamba and Temwa Chilese are guaranteed New

Wilson is to coach the team, with Paul Hornsby acting as the assistant.This latest announcement takes New


Biggest World Rugby Sevens Series yet planned for 2023 including two Hong Kong stops

  • Rugby Sevens

Next season's World Rugby Sevens Series calendar features a record number of events, with Paris 2024 qualification due to be up for grabs as the circuit returns to pre-pandemic levels.

men's - for what was Fiji's first-ever Olympic medal.Fiji defended the men's crown at Tokyo 2020, while New

Zealand won the women's gold medal.Australia have already won this season's women's World Rugby Sevens

event remaining.COVID-19 has impacted the participation of several countries this season - especially New

Zealand, Fiji and Samoa - but a full slate of teams is anticipated to play in the 2022-2023 campaign.As


Fergus Jenkins

  • Elite Amateur Athletes

Fergus Jenkins won the men's middleweight world title for New Zealand at the 2021 IMMAF World Championships

decision against Iusup Magomedov of the RMMAU.Before the final, he was honoured with a haka performed by New

Zealand staff.


Rangooni appointed as Paralympics New Zealand chair for another four years

  • Paralympics

Jana Rangooni has been reappointed as the chair of Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) Board for another four-year

in October 2015 and became chair in May 2021.In that period she has overseen the introduction of the new

the Radio Broadcasters Association and has over 30 years of experience in broadcasting and media in New

Zealand and the United Kingdom, across all organisational areas including broadcasting, news, marketing

Zealand.Mark Elliott, formerly of Cycling New Zealand, has joined the PNZ Board ©Getty ImagesElliott

Zealand at the Olympic Games.Elliott has also plied his trade as a sports physiotherapist too and has