Athlete Update- Hannah Blackwood, September 2018
September 24, 2018
Dear Perago Trust,
I have just returned home from my pinnacle event, competing in the 2018 FINA World Junior Open Water 10km Championships in Eilat, Israel.
As New Zealand’s sole qualifier and representative, my coach Carl Gordon and I left Auckland on 31 August. It took 4...
Athlete Update- Beckie Leigh, September 2018
September 9, 2018
Rower Beckie Leigh provides an update on her training and competition:
I just wanted to say a big thank you for the funding that you granted to me for the New Zealand Junior Rowing campaign and our trip to the Junior World Rowing Champs in Racice, Czech Republic. ...
Greenough scores Australian title
August 21, 2018
One Cambridge’s top BMX riders has returned home from the Australian National Series with good reason to smile. Bennett Greenough competed in three rounds of the event with enough race wins to claim the overall title in his age group.
Unfortunately, due to the Cambridge BM...
Athlete Update - Will Thompson
August 21, 2018
2018 grant recipient Will Thompson gives an update on his training and competition:The junior rowing campaign has come to an end for 2018. I am currently emailing from Prague airport as we await our flight to come home.
Build up to racing:
We arrived in Prague on the 3...
Athlete Update - Ellesse Andrews
August 6, 2018
Ellesse Andrews | New Zealand Track Cyclist
Keep up to date with my journey to win Olympic gold
EUROPE TRAINING CAMP
Seven weeks into my European training/racing adventure, and I’m absolutely loving it. Our New Zealand team is based out of a small town called ...
Athlete Update - William Thompson
July 26, 2018
2018 Perago Trust grant recipient William Thompson provides an update on his training and competition goals heading into the World Junior Rowing Championships:
Dear Perago,
I am writing today to update you on how my training and preparation for World Junior Rowing Championsh...
Athlete Update- Bennett Greenough
July 9, 2018
Hi Perago,
The 2018 BMX World Champs last month had lots of ups and downs for me this year. My qualifiers went really well, picking up a 1st, 3rd, then another 1st, followed by another first in my 1/8 final.In my quarter final, an incident involving another rider caused me t...
Athlete Update- Beckie Leigh
June 12, 2018
An update from 2018 Perago Trust recipient Beckie Leigh:
We went into our Junior Camp in early June, with everyone flying / driving to the Rob Waddell Lodge at Lake Karapiro, and then moving to Podium Lodge in Cambridge after 2 weeks. I have been training hard over the last ...
Kiwi mountain biker Sam Gaze has produced a stunning display to become the first New Zealander to win an elite UCI Mountain Bike World Cup title.The 22-year-old from Cambridge claimed victory in the cross country event in the first round of the new season in Stellenbosc...
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