Vaughn Jefferis is a New Zealand horseman who won a Bronze medal at the Olympic Games. Initially competing in showjumping, Jefferis switched to Eventing in 1990 and had immediate success, being part of the Gold…

Trevor Discombe was a motorcycle racer.  Between 1965 and 1981 Trevor earned an impressive record on the Australasian and Asian motorcycling stage, including 24 New Zealand titles and a number of Asian title victories: 1966,…

Tracey Fear played in two Netball World Cups– 1983 and 1987 (which the Silver Ferns won) – and was part of a dominant Silver Ferns era which included winning the 1985 World Games title. As…

Sonia Waddell is a New Zealand athlete mostly known for her rowing career, but she excelled in other sports. She represented New Zealand in the 400m hurdles at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics…

Sheila Laxon was the first female thoroughbred horse trainer to win the Australian cups double, the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup, with her mare Ethereal in 2001.  Her efforts were recognised when she took out…

Sarah Walker is an Olympic BMX rider.  In the 2008 season Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Rounds, Walker won seven races, came second in one race and didn’t race two races.  She was ranked number one…

Sarah Ulmer is the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling gold medal, which she won in the 3km individual pursuit at the 2004 Athens Olympics setting a world record. After the 2004 Olympics,…

Robert played over 50 games for the Tall Blacks.  Internationally he competed in the men’s tournament at the 2000 Olympic Games and in the 2002 FIBA world cup where New Zealand came fourth.

In 1998 at the age of 23 Rob Waddell became the Single Sculls World Champion, retaining his title the following year before claiming a gold medal in the same discipline at the Sydney Olympics in…

Richard Tonks was a rower and champion coach.  In 1970 he rowed for Otago in Dunedin and was able to earn a place on the national team in 1971.  By 1972 he was stroking the…

Richard George Myers was a 1970s rugby player and All Black.  A loose forward, Myers played for Leamington RFC in Cambridge and is the only All Black to have played for the club. He represented…

Pam Buckingham was a 1970s squash player.  She was one of New Zealand’s most accomplished female players.  She won a national junior title and then, as Pam Buckingham and later Pam Guy, won five national…

Nicola started her international rowing career in the women’s eight, but her first international medal was in the coxless four at the Munich World Rowing Cup in 2001. Nicola paired with Juliette Haigh in the…

Nathan Twaddle is a World Champion and Olympic rower.  He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, in the coxless pair rowing with his partner George Bridgewater and won a bronze medal. He rowed…

Sir Mark Todd is among New Zealand’s most celebrated sportsmen with two Olympic gold (Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988) and three bronze medals (Seoul 1988, Sydney 2000 and London 2012), and every other major…

Margaret Forsyth is a New Zealand netball coach and former international netball player.  She was selected for the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns, in 1979 at the age of 17.  During the…

Mahé Drysdale was an Olympic and World Champion Single Sculls rower.  He began rowing at the age of 18 and won his first World Champion title eight years later in 2005 in Japan.  Mahé held…

Not only was Linda Jones New Zealand’s first female jockey legally allowed to race against males – she was also one of New Zealand’s top jockeys during her short stint in the saddle. Jones first…

For 20 years Kym Kearns was at the top of New Zealand Roller Hockey until her retirement in 2000. She was first selected for the New Zealand team as a 17 year old.  She played…

Kevin Herlihy was a World Champion softball player from 1966-1984.  He was one of the best right-handed pitchers in softball history.  With Carl Mossman he was a vital member of the successful Cambridge Blue Streaks…

Ken Browne was an outstanding jockey and trainer of jumps racing. What stood Browne apart from most other horsemen in the world of jumps racing was that he did much of the physical work himself. …

Keith Arnold was a 1940s rugby player and All Black.  He played all of his club rugby for Hautapu with the exception of 1941 when he played for Matamata.  He represented North Island Army in…

Ken Peake was a Champion polo player from the 1930s.  He was Captain and wearer of the number 3 vest winning the Savile Cup, the oldest New Zealand sporting trophy, in 1936, 1937 and 1938,…

Juliette Haigh was a World Champion and Olympic rower.  Haigh (now Drysdale) was in the New Zealand Women’s Pairs from 2004 to 2008 with Nicky Coles, then returned to the event after a year out…

Joelle King is a Commonwealth Games Champion squash player.  She is one of New Zealand’s most decorated Commonwealth Games athletes having won an impressive six medals. She won her first Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tour…

Jim Watson’s polo career, like that of Ken Peake, began at the age of 12.  He went on to become one of the outstanding players in New Zealand polo. Ken Peake was Jim’s polo idol…

Bob Nolan was a New Zealand polo player.  Nolan, along with Ken Peake, played in what was regarded as one of the great Savile Cup teams.  In 1938 they were the first polo wearers of…

Hamish Bond was a World and Olympic Champion rower.  He was a member of the New Zealand gold medal-winning coxless four at the 2007 World Rowing Championships.  The coxless four won Team of the Year at…

Greg Johnston was a World Champion and Olympic rower.  He joined the Waikato Rowing Club and from 1978 onwards, won a total of 26 national rowing titles: ten titles in the eight, nine titles in…

George MacDonald was a rugby league player.  His short but outstanding rugby league career in the 1950s is an achievement befitting his recognition in the Cambridge Sports Walk of Fame. Born in Scotland in 1934,…

George Bridgewater was a World Champion and Olympic rower  He formed a successful pair with Nathan Twaddle.  They finished fourth in the pairs final at the Athens Olympics.  They won a gold medal at the…

Murray first went to the Maadi Cup, New Zealand’s premier school rowing regatta, in 1997, but did not achieve anything at Lake Karapiro.  In 1998, when the regatta was held at Lake Ruataniwha, he came…

Doug Mienie has officially represented New Zealand in three sports, Judo, Body-building and Powerlifting. He placed 2nd in wrestling in 1980 and has won two gold medals at the Masters Games in swimming 2009.

David is a 1970s and 1980s Olympic rower. He won a bronze medal in the 1976 Montreal games as part of the Eight. Rodger was part of the team when New Zealand won the coxless…

Charles Hunter was a 1960s and 1970s harness driver and trainer.  He remains one of the most successful trainers to have competed in harness racing. He won his first Inter Dominion Final in 1971 when…

The Evers-Swindell sisters were Olympic champion rowers. The identical twin sisters competed in the double sculls.  In November 2005 they were named Rowing Female Crew of the Year by the International Rowing Federation (FISA), and…

Carl Mossman was a 1970s softball captain and World Series winner.  He was a vital member of the successful Cambridge Blue Streaks and Waikato softball teams in the 1970s.  He and legendary former New Zealand…

Amigene Metcalfe was a touch rugby and netball player. Metcalfe was a member of the New Zealand Touch Team between 1994 and 2003.  During that time she played in three World Cups, two as Captain,…

Allan Wallace was a world champion competitive ploughman and NZPA executive. Wallace started competitive ploughing in 1961 in events run by the Young Farmers Clubs.  At that stage he had only done a little ploughing…

A K Holmes was a 1960s harness racing driver and trainer.  He was a magician both in the sulky and in the training yard. He won the New Zealand Derby at Addington Raceway in 1968.…