Shaun White proved a star turn on his way to winning the halfpipe at the New Zealand Burton Open, producing a history-making run in the final at Cardrona Alpine Resort on Saturday.
US rider Shaun White has become one of snowsport's most-recognised figures, famed for his fearless approach and fluid style. Matthew Haggart talked to the Flying Tomato.
United States rider Jamie Anderson won her second New Zealand Burton Open women's slopestyle event at Cardrona Alpine Resort yesterday, clinching the title with her second run in the finals.
International sports have their dominant figures - men and women who are so good that they change the face of their respective sporting landscape.
Snowboarder Ben Stewart, of Whangamata, was the only New Zealander qualifier for the semifinals of the Burton Open halfpipe competition, at Cardrona Alpine Resort, yesterday.
Snowboarding star Shaun White has announced he will line up for the final day of halfpipe competition at the New Zealand Burton Open, at Cardrona Alpine Resort tomorrow.
It's one super pipe the world's best snowboarders and freeskiers love to smoke when they're down under.
The New Zealand Freeski Open's big mountain qualification session was shut down by a snowstorm which hit the Remarkables skifield yesterday morning.
International snowboarders dominated the field of 10 male riders who qualified yesterday for the next round of the New Zealand Burton Open slopestyle competition at the Cardrona Alpine Resort.
A "Special Olympics" ski and snowboarding programme has attracted 28 athletes with intellectual disabilities from around New Zealand to a training camp at Cardrona Alpine Resort.
Shelly Gottlieb, New Zealand's best-performed female snowboarder during the past year, will be one to watch at the Winter Games later this month.
Many Hawea Flat residents are adamant they do not want a 31-lot rural lifestyle subdivision in their community, as developers eye up a 22ha site for residential sections.
Two Australians were arrested at Cardrona Alpine Resort yesterday for allegedly using other people's season lift passes to access skifield runs.
An elderly Waimate man injured in a car crash near Wanaka yesterday could face driving charges in relation to the incident.
New Zealand alpine ski racer Allie McGlinn scored her second FIS triumph at Treble Cone on Saturday to card back-to-back slalom victories during the Wanaka tech racing series last week.
Curlers and ice hockey fans will be able to watch broadcasts of the Winter Games New Zealand courtesy of a sponsorship deal between the two sporting disciplines and the SBS Bank.
The bands Fat Freddy's Drop and the Black Seeds will headline the Rippon Festival in Wanaka next summer.
Tiki Taane is taking his sound back to his "underground" days with two key gigs, in Dunedin and Wanaka, next week. Matthew Haggart talks to one of New Zealand music's most talented musicians.
Freeskiing specialist Mitchey Greig (20) outpaced some of New Zealand's best female alpine skiers to win the giant slalom at the second race in the Wanaka FIS tech racing series yesterday.
Supporting the development of riverside walking and cycling trails is one of the key initiatives the newly formed Upper Clutha River Guardians will pursue as part of their opposition to dams on the Clutha River.
