Dec 18 (Reuters) - High Performance Sport New Zealand on Wednesday announced NZ$162.8 million ($93.69 million) in government funding for Olympic and Paralympic sports in the run-up to the 2028 Summer ...

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Alice Robinson are set to return to the Olympic stage, with the pair among the first eight athletes conditionally selected to represent New Zealand in Italy. The selections ...

The Canada coach banned for her role in a drone spying scandal at the Paris Olympics has been hired as head coach of New Zealand’s only professional women’s team. Bev Priestman, who recently finished ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — American-born Chinese skier and Olympic freestyle gold medalist Eileen Gu has suffered an injury while training in New Zealand, the latest in several setbacks for the 2022 ...

For the Becker family, curling isn’t just a sport — it’s a way of life. Between them, three members of the current generation ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Laurel Hubbard hefted 628 pounds (185 kilograms) in two lifts on the way to qualifying in the women's super-heavyweight division for the Tokyo Olympics. That's heavy. But ...

MINTURN — Rakai Tait was born in California, lived in Switzerland when he was 7 years old and learned to snowboard there, lived in his father’s home country of New Zealand for a few years after that ...

(Reuters) - Famed New Zealand Olympic middle distance runner Peter Snell has died in Dallas at age 80, the New Zealand Herald reported on Saturday. The newspaper reported sports historian and friend ...