New Zealand’s premier celebration of rural sports athletes – the Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards – is now accepting nominations. There are five prestigious award categories: The Norwood New Zealand Rural Sportsman of the Year The Skellerup New Zealand […]
New Zealand’s premier real estate company, Property Brokers, has secured naming rights’ sponsorship of the iconic Running of Wools for three years. Running of the Wools is a free event for the wider rural community and visitors to Manawatū. Around […]
PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand (16 June, 2017) The eggceptional team at Williment Travel has joined the Hilux New Zealand Rural Games as a sponsor and is sending the New Zealand 2017 Two Egg Throw & Catch Champions off to the […]
PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand (12th March, 2017) – The final day of the third annual Hilux New Zealand Rural Games in Palmerston North saw national champions decided in ‘sports that built the nation’ including speed shearing, coal shovelling and tree […]
PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand (11th March, 2017) – The third annual Hilux New Zealand Rural Games began on The Square, Palmerston North today with Olympians Dame Valerie Adams and Mahé Drysdale making guest appearances in an unfamiliar sport. The double […]
PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand (February 28, 2017) – Dame Valerie Adams, twice Olympic shot put champion and ‘golden girl’ of New Zealand athletics, will chance her arm at some very different sports next month at the Hilux New Zealand Rural […]
PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand (14 February, 2017) – National and world champions in traditional sports like shearing, wood chopping, fencing, tree climbing and gumboot throwing feature among the finalists for the inaugural Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards taking place […]
Organisers of the Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards have announced Olympic rowing gold medallist Mahé Drysdale as guest speaker for the inaugural event that takes place at Awapuni Racecourse, Palmerston North on Friday 10th March 2017. Launched to celebrate […]
PALMERSTON NORTH (2 September, 2016) – Brand new awards celebrating sporting excellence among New Zealand’s rural athletes were launched today with organisers positioning the event as the ‘Halbergs for the rural sector’. Rural sports associations are invited to nominate athletes […]
After two years in Queenstown the Hilux New Zealand Rural Games is relocating to Palmerston North next year the weekend before the start of New Zealand Agri Investment Week 2017. The third annual Games – a free two-day event hosting […]
A great family weekend of traditional sports, entertainment and heaps of opportunities to have a go.
