Alistair McMurran

Ricky Gutsell (Gore) made no mistakes and comfortably won the prestige 10km road race at the New Zealand Masters Games last night.

They had fun four years ago and have come back. Harry and Grace Coulson, the husband and wife team from Canberra, are playing bowls in their second New Zealand Masters Games in Dunedin.

Barry van Gorp will leave the New Zealand Masters Games scene on a high note with football the top of the pops this year.

Jackie Padman was the inspirational captain who led a dominant Immortalz women's team to a gold medal at Ellis Park yesterday.

Kathryn Cherry needs to step up to another level when she plays in a New Zealand Croquet invitation event in Palmerston North later this week.

Graham Grange grew up in England and started cue sports as a 13-year-old in the church billiard league.

Allison Howlett (nee Reid) broke three New Zealand records in her first outing in indoor rowing yesterday.

Wanganui Athletic Cosmos 2, Melchester Rovers 1.

Dunedin dental student Dave Richards was inspired by the sight of his girlfriend on the bank, when he won the stand-up paddleboard gold medal yesterday.

Charlotte Cox is an independent thinker and bucks the trends. She likes doing things her own way.

Julie Pyle grew up in the hotbed of New Zealand women's hockey in the Maniototo, but she had never scored a hat trick of goals in a game before.

Jiri Pokorny thought he was playing a joke on his wife, Milana, but it backfired and led him back into the ice dance arena.

The rough water did not stop Port Chalmers rower Faye Forgie. She is used to pacing cruise ships on Otago Harbour.

It was his first powerlifting competition but this did not worry Russell Miller because he had lifted weights all his life.

The shoes made the difference and helped Dunedin's Erika Wolf win the discus and shot put double at the Caledonian Ground yesterday.

The shifting of the headquarters to Forsyth Barr Stadium has brought a new dimension to this year's New Zealand Masters Games in Dunedin.

Mary Gray has been impressed by the elite names she has read each day on the Otago Girls' High School sport honours board and it inspired her to retain her national mountain bike title.

A month training under the watchful eye of New Zealand rowing guru Fred Strachan helped Anna McAslan (North End) win the women's club single sculls at Lake Ruataniwha on Sunday.