It was a historic 18th race.
Chantel Knox learnt training discipline from the late Duncan Laing and it helped her to win the women's two-day Coast to Coast title on Saturday.
Andrew Moore has the potential to beat the chimes and break the record in the Timebuster sprint around the Octagon at 10am today.
Justin Leov, of Christchurch, is expected to dominate the men's elite downhill race at the fifth round of the New Zealand Mountain Bike Cup competition at Coronet Peak today.
The odds are against former Dunedin physical education student Dougal Allan, but he could be the surprise winner of the Longest Day event in the 27th annual Coast to Coast multisport event this weekend.
OSCA coach Gennadiy Labara is a hard task master, but the approach brought results at the Otago championships with his two best swimmers, Katie Kenneally and Nick Tyrrell, dominating the open events at Moana Pool at the weekend.
Cameron Cole (Christchurch) has a cool head.
Lil Clearwater broke a 27-year-old Otago swimming record at the weekend.
Andrew Lonie (Leith) flew with the strong southerly wind behind him to win the running section of the third annual 23km Otago Peninsula Challenge yesterday.
It was a tale of two errors in the Otago Peninsula Challenge mountain bike race yesterday.
Southern softball has been starved of success for a long time but the region's top women are celebrating after reaching the finals of the national league.
Serious injuries threatened to end Tom Davie's sporting ambitions but instead they changed his approach to life.
Queestown swimmer McGregor Fea completed a treble when he won the Otago championship open men's 50m butterfly title at Moana Pool last night.
The early-morning starts have paid dividends for Waves swimmer Stef Gillespie, who broke the only provincial record on the first night of the Otago championships at Moana Pool last night.
The experienced Outram pair of Anne Gawn and Cindi Ewart are back.
Three Otago representatives - Tom Davie, Chris Donaldson and Willie Trew - have been named in the New Zealand bobsleigh team for the world championships in the United States next month.
The resurfacing of the Caledonian Ground track is expected to be completed in time for the first day of the Otago athletics championships, February 22.
The battle between Scarlett Hagen (Queenstown) and Emmeline Ragot (France) will be the feature of the first round of the South Island downhill mountain bike series in Dunedin on Saturday.
Marc Ryan (Timaru) proved he is a true Olympian when he dominated the elite men's events at the New Zealand Cup on Wheels in Dunedin at the weekend.
Tom Scully works for Glen Thomson in Invercargill and has been imbued with the tough approach that the former Commonwealth Games champion used in his competitive days.