Sport Press Releases

The classic children’s game of tag is now a professional sport – World Chase Tag, played often by parkour athletes. Parkour NZ, New Zealand’s national sport organisation for parkour is launching a crowdfunding campaign to unlock the opportunity to run World Chase Tag affiliated events around the country. 

The lovechild of two Kiwi riders, eager to create better MTB lighting solutions, Gloworm lights have grown into an internationally recognized brand. Now, 10 years after they first illuminated trails for riders around the world, Gloworm are launching their second generation of MTB lights the G2.0 range.

PURE Movement are a Lower Hutt gym studio specialising in getting people to move functionally and effectively. They have just expanded to a new location and have an upcoming Open Day to showcase their new services.

Uprising grand opening in Christchurch this weekend (2nd August 2019):
One of the largest bouldering facilities in the Southern Hemisphere, complete with yoga studio, fitness gym, cafe, bar and pizzeria.

Three New Zealand Super Rugby teams have signed up to use STATSports’ World Rugby-approved sports monitoring technology. The Blues, Hurricanes and Chiefs will benefit from the most accurate GPS tracking technology currently available through STATSports’ APEX system.

The Uniform Centre supplies bespoke branded uniforms nationwide to many New Zealand schools supporting their teams in their extracurricular activities. With apparel available for all sports popular in schools, teams are spoilt for choice in design and style.

With around 170 days left to get ready for New Zealand’s largest cycle event, the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge 2017, it’s time for Aucklanders to get on their bikes.

Sport and Recreation Minister Jonathan Coleman and Disability Issues Minister Nicky Wagner say the New Zealand Special Olympics team should be extremely proud of its outstanding results at the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games held in Graz, Austria.

Northland children are set to benefit from a new partnership between Sport Northland and Sanitarium, one of the country’s largest health food manufacturers, who will bring a new sporting event to the region.

Radio Hauraki and Radio Sport are proud to present New Zealand’s premier domestic darts competition, SKYCITY Super League Darts which begins on 10 July. Eight of New Zealand’s best players will compete against each other in a tournament unrivalled in New Zealand.

Globally, 3% of the population suffers from a Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylitis) inflammation. A highly successful experimental device has been recently tested in Germany using a very densed acoustic pressure which loosens both inflammation and scar tissue in only 24 hours. An exclusive clinical trial will be conducted at the Dunedin School of Medicine. For this clinical trial we need both patients who have suffered more than 12 months as well as funding.

Auckland based LED sign company Signopsys Electronic Signs Ltd (Signopsys), a 25 year supplier of Cricket scoring systems and LED screen hardware to ICC Cricket World Cups internationally, has been contracted by Korean IT giant Ssangyong Information and Communications Corporation (SICC) to provide the world’s first Olympic Games Cricket Scoring software system for the Incheon Asian Games beginning next week in Korea.

More than a thousand people will run from the clutches of flesh-hungry zombies in the upcoming 5km obstacle race- Run for your Freak’n Life at Spookers Haunted Attraction Theme Park.

Media Titles Group Ltd has sold the iconic title Rugby News, along with its other print and digital consumer rugby publications, to Auckland based publisher Mark Calverley.

The YMCA Ellerslie Recreation Centre welcomes local residents and communities to join us in their open day on Saturday 1st of February. It will be a fun day filled with activities for the entire family including Zumba, Spin, kids gymnastics, bouncy castle and animal balloons.

Gold Standard Whey, available at SportsFuel Supplements, continues to be recognised as a leading supplement in the world of professional bodybuilding.

Registrations are open for the 5th annual Frog Rock mountain bike challenge on Saturday 9 November, 2013.

I am very excited to announce that on September 27th this year, Dodgeball New Zealand will be hosting the 2nd annual World Dodgeball Federation Invitational at the Queenstown Events Centre.

Seventhwave Wetsuits moves to reassure customers of former fellow Kiwi wetsuit manufacturer Bodyline that it will be able to look after their wetsuit needs following the sudden closure of the long-running Tauranga-based company.

To help the Ice Fernz make New Zealand history we’ve asked a number of well known people to take a photo of themselves, wearing our scarf, to show their support for the team.