News from WCC
Senior officials from football’s world governing body, FIFA, have given Wellington the seal of approval as it prepares to host FIFA’s second largest global tournament – the U-20 World Cup in 2015. Read more »

Press Release – Sport Wellington
Wellington Phoenix stars Paul Ifill and Louis Fenton will join other big names in New Zealand sport to pass on their experience to primary school children at this year’s annual Pelorus Trust Stadium Sports Festival, held next Tuesday at Westpac Stadium. Read more »

Press Release – PNP – Port Nicholson Poneke Cycling Club
Miramar’s Nick Warren established a new Wellington Velodrome record for ‘The Hour’, one of the classic benchmarks in cycling, riding 41.135km in the allotted 60 minutes. Read more »

Press Release – Ignite Sport
Youth development trust Ignite Sport will be representing Wellington at the Trustpower National Community Awards. Read more »

Press Release – Triathlon New Zealand
The final round of the .kiwi Tri Series took place in Wellington today, with the highlight being national championship events for Elite U19 triathletes and Paratriathletes. Read more »

Press Release – Upper Hutt City Council
An impressive number of Upper Hutt young people turned out for the freestyle scooter competition held at Maidstone Max today. Activation and Youthtown Upper Hutt joined forces to deliver a fantastic scooter competition for Upper Hutt’s young people at Maidstone Max. The competition was part of Activation’s Parks and Places programme and over 150 spectators enjoyed seeing flips, tricks, and flares. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
Plans for more big spending are being thrown around by our elected representatives this morning. Read more »

Press Release – Positively Wellington Tourism
High-flying, hard-hitting and straight shooting; elite players of all kinds will be converging on Wellington for a series of massive multi-code sporting clashes over the coming months. Read more »

Press Release – Melanoma Foundation
Jet ski and adrenalin junkies will once again take to our waters this March with one mission in mind: to raise awareness of melanoma in New Zealand. Read more »

Press Release – Sport Wellington
Big names in New Zealand sports will pass on their experience to primary school children at Wellington’s Westpac Stadium, at the annual Pelorus Trust Stadium Sports Festival on Tuesday 18 March. Read more »

Press Release – Triathlon New Zealand
Racing will be competitive on many different levels at the final round of the .kiwi Tri Series in Wellington this weekend, from the social participants aiming simply to finish to the serious age groupers aiming at a personal best or participants looking to get one up on rival clubs in the .kiwi Interclub Challenge. Read more »

Press Release – NZ Institute of Sport
NZIS is hosting the Westmont College RFC (USA) men’s team as part of their New Zealand tour 2014 tour. Read more »

Press Release – Veritas Communications Ltd
Local racers are aiming to get a strong start to their championship year as the New Zealand Offroad Racing Championship roars into action at Feilding on March 9. Read more »

News from Cycle Wire
Wellington’s National Championships Team members were on fine form at the Burkes Cycles Speed League Round 13 today in Hataitai. Louis Higgison (Petone) won three races in the A Category while George Jackson (Island Bay) and Ione Johnson (Karori) lit up the B Category. Read more »

Press Release – Karapoti Classic
Pre-race favourites didn’t disappoint at the 2014 Scott Karapoti Classic today. But in a race full of former champions, they needed race records to take the top spots in New Zealand’s premier mountain bike event. Read more »

Press Release – NZ Open
It has been more than a decade since a New Zealander held aloft the Brodie Breeze Trophy and there are no less than seven contenders within striking distance of glory at the New Zealand Open in Arrowtown. Read more »

Press Release – MDJ Media
A who’s-who of New Zealand mountain biking will go head to head in Upper Hutt on Saturday as more than 700 riders from eight countries line up for the Scott Karapoti Classic. Read more »

Press Release – BDO Wellington to Auckland Cycle Challenge