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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…