4th March 2022 Events / Sports
The New Zealand SUP Nationals is underway at Mt Maunganui, with more than 100 athletes taking part.
Wellington will host in April an Enduro World Series mountain bike qualifying round race for the first time, which is expected to attract 500 competitors.
New Zealand’s first gold medal at the Winter Olympics may prove a welcome boon for the country’s struggling ski resorts.
Queenstown will play host to six international women’s cricket fixtures at John Davies Oval this February.
Taupō Equifest festival is expected to attract thousand of visitors and provide a boost to the region’s tourism operators.
Christchurch and Auckland will host the new high-tech global sailing competition Sail Grand Prix after New Zealand secured a four-year deal with the event.
Tony Quinn will settle his $9.8m acquisition of the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park Taupo on 17 December, two weeks earlier than expected.
Auckland and Wellington will host nine games each for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup hosted by New Zealand and Australia.
Taupo Motorsport Park joins Quinn’s Hampton Downs and Highlands attractions.
The new multi-use arena in Christchurch is now scheduled for completion at the end of the second quarter of 2025.
The Queenstown Marathon has been postponed to 19 March 2022, due to ongoing travel restrictions and social distancing rules under level 2.
The New Zealand Sail Grand Prix Christchurch event in early 2022 has been cancelled after managed isolation and quarantine spots could not be secured for teams and staff.
Tennis Auckland now hopes to serve up tournament in 2023.
Sports, stage shows and a smorgasbord of food festivals in New Zealand’s largest city.
The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 tournament games in New Zealand will be held in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Dunedin.
The government has injected $950,000 in support of the 8th World Conference of the International Working Group on Women in Sport in Auckland in 2022.
The 2021 Women’s Rugby World Cup appears likely to be postponed until next year due to the ongoing pandemic.
West Indies will play two matches against a New Zealand A side at John Davies Oval, Queenstown, in late November.
Soccer fans from around the world will be heading to NZ, which will co-host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Eden Park is expecting to welcome 50,000 fans when the Super Rugby competition resumes this weekend following months of cancelled events and deserted stands.
Queenstown’s winter multisport event, the 44km David Reid Homes Peak to Peak, opened entries yesterday.
The event was expected to generate $20m for the host city and region.
Recreation Aotearoa and the New Zealand Alpine Club are supporting calls from the tourism sector to reduce restrictions around non-essential domestic travel during alert level 2.
The WBSC Men’s Softball World Cup scheduled for Auckland’s ELE Stadium in February 2021 has been postponed with a new date yet to be set.
The schedule for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021 has been released, with the first game to take place on Waitangi Day at Eden Park in Auckland.
Close to 4,000 participants from around New Zealand and 19 countries will take part in Macpac Motatapu near Wanaka this weekend.
The ASB Classic has been named as the best event in the world for its tier at the annual WTA Awards
Almost 3000 spectators and participants attended Rotorua’s Winter Forest Festival on Saturday.
Red Bull Defiance is returning to Wanaka next year with the two-day adventure race being held on the 28th and 29th of March.
Five tests over two weekends in June and November are expected to inject more than $1.2m into Auckland.