Hamish Bond (North End), the iron man of New Zealand rowing, is expected to add two more red coats to his collection at Lake Ruataniwha this week.
Lucy Strack (North End) stepped on to the world stage in style last year.
Visiting German pupil Davina Hamaan (Hill City) won a silver medal in the women's aged 16 heptathlon at Tauranga yesterday.
Chris Henderson emulated his more illustrious brother by winning the New Zealand Cup on Wheels on Saturday night.
Sports enthusiast Matt Bixley (Hill City) has added his name to the list of noted athletes who have won the Ness Cup.
Back markers Simon van Vethooven (West Coast North Island) and Nathan Seddon (Dunedin) will be on the back mark for the New Zealand Cup on Wheels cycle race in Mosgiel tonight.
The last steep hill proved decisive for Brent Miller (Christchurch) when he won the Otago Peninsula Challenge mountain bike title yesterday.
It was a gripping final. Daniel Balchin (Caversham) won the Otago 3000m title with a ferocious sprint down the front straight.
Dunedin doctor Dougal Thorburn (Ariki) will be challenged by German mountain runner Helmut Schiessl in the Otago Peninsula Challenge mountain race tomorrow.
Tony Dodds (Wanaka) will be defending his triathlon title in Taupo tomorrow in a race that doubles as the Oceania sprint championships.
The Otago University Club will defend the Middlesex Cup on its home ground at the University Oval at the end of the month.
Peter Fahey (90) and Jonty Horwell (12) have proved that bowls is a game that spans the generation gap.
Oamaru's Peter and Rosalae Armstrong will be glued to their television set when former North Otago loose forward Tom Wood makes his international debut tomorrow morning.
Otago secondary schools have bucked the national trend and increased participation in school sports over the past four years.
Shaun Scott was on his tractor, ploughing farmland, at Northburn Station, near Cromwell, when he received a telephone call from national selection convener Dave Edwards.
Peter Wilson more than compensated for missing the Kaikorai Bowling Club's centennial celebrations at the weekend by winning his first game in the Welsh Grand Prix in Swansea yesterday.
Braden Doyle (Waves) lifted his swimming to a new level when he won the three prestige senior men's sprint titles at Moana Pool at the weekend.
Dunedin doctor Dougal Thorburn (Ariki) warmed up for next weekend's Otago Peninsula Challenge by running from the front in the 3000m at the Caledonian Ground on Saturday.
It was third time lucky for Ben Jowsey (Hill City) when he won the Time Buster race around Dunedin's Octagon on Saturday morning.
Kate Godfrey (Neptune) broke the Otago senior women's record and emerged as the new female star of Otago swimming at Moana Pool last night.