The Star: September 21, 2017
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42 Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Sport<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
CHRISTCHURCH’S Fiona Crombie won<br />
gold in her category at the ITU world<br />
triathlon championships in Rotterdam,<br />
Netherlands.<br />
Crombie competed in the 35-39 age<br />
group on Sunday and cruised to victory<br />
by more than 2min over United States<br />
athlete Kirsten Sass, completing the<br />
gruelling race in a time of 2hr 10min<br />
14sec. Sass is a four-time world triathlon<br />
champion and three-time duathlon world<br />
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Crombie takes out triathlon gold in Netherlands<br />
champion in the 35-39 age group.<br />
Crombie completed the 1500m swim<br />
in 20min 26sec, 40km cycle in<br />
1hr 7min and 10km run in 36min<br />
48sec.<br />
Fellow Christchurch athlete<br />
Samantha Owles competed in the<br />
same age group and came 12th<br />
with a time of 2hr 17min 14sec.<br />
She posted on her Facebook page that she<br />
was happy with how she had competed.<br />
In the junior women’s section, Ari Graham<br />
was 14th with a time of 1hr 3min<br />
37sec in her first international outing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> junior women had a 750m<br />
swim, 19km cycle, and 5km run.<br />
<strong>The</strong> event was held from last<br />
Thursday to Sunday.<br />
TRIATHLETES: Fiona Crombie<br />
(left) took out gold in her<br />
category at the ITU world triathlon<br />
championships, while Ari Graham<br />
(right) competed in the junior section.<br />
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Boyd back with Blackjacks<br />
team after becoming mum<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
MANDY BOYD will return to the<br />
Blackjacks for the Trans-Tasman series<br />
after taking time off to look after her<br />
newborn daughter.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2014 Commonwealth Games<br />
bronze medallist withdrew from the<br />
2016-17 squad to have her first child,<br />
Maycie.<br />
Boyd, 22, who bowls for Burnside,<br />
will be joined in the series against<br />
Australia by clubmate Tayla Bruce, and<br />
Katelyn Inch, 22, of the Oxford club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> series will be a rehearsal for the 2018<br />
Commonwealth Games which will also<br />
be played on the Gold Coast.<br />
Another Burnside bowler, Cait Bassett,<br />
has been selected in the New Zealand<br />
development team, which will also<br />
compete at the Trans-Tasman series.<br />
Boyd said it was great to be back<br />
playing the sport she loves at such a high<br />
level.<br />
“I have been focusing on being a<br />
mum for the past seven months, which<br />
has been awesome. But I am glad to<br />
have another opportunity to compete<br />
for my country and try to make that<br />
Commonwealth Games team for 2018,”<br />
she said.<br />
Boyd’s partner Lance Pascoe and their<br />
daughter will be on the Gold Coast to<br />
support her.<br />
“Maycie will definitely be dressed up in<br />
black and white,” Boyd said.<br />
Bruce said although she has been<br />
selected in the Blackjacks a number of<br />
times, getting the call is still special.<br />
“I love getting that call. Being able to<br />
represent my country in a sport I love is<br />
amazing,” she said.<br />
“I also get to play with one of my best<br />
friends, Mandy Boyd, so that will be<br />
really cool. I just met her daughter . . . she<br />
is so cute.”<br />
A para-sport team will also compete<br />
with Burnside’s Bruce Wakefield selected<br />
to play in the B6/7/8 triples competition.<br />
•Additional reporting NZ Herald<br />
Blackjacks<br />
Men: Shannon McIlroy, Ali Forsyth<br />
(both Nelson), Mike Kernaghan<br />
(Dunedin), Paul Girdler (Dunedin), Tony<br />
Grantham (North Harbour)<br />
TALENTED: Tayla<br />
Bruce (left) and<br />
Mandy Boyd have<br />
been selected in<br />
the New Zealand<br />
women’s bowls<br />
team along with<br />
Katelyn Inch<br />
(below).<br />
Women: Mandy Boyd, Katelyn Inch,<br />
Tayla Bruce (Christchurch), Jo Edwards,<br />
Val Smith (Nelson)<br />
Development men: Rory Soden (North<br />
Harbour), Bradley Down (Wellington),<br />
Taylor Horn, Aiden Takarua, Seamus<br />
Curtin (Auckland)<br />
Development women: Cait Bassett<br />
(Christchurch), Natasha Russell, Nicole<br />
Toomey (Wellington), Paris Baker (North<br />
Harbour), Ashleigh Jeffcoat (Waikato),<br />
Kimberley Hemingway (Wellington)<br />
Para-Sport teams<br />
B6/7/8 triples: Mark Noble, Barry<br />
Winks, Bruce Wakefield<br />
B2/3 pair: David Stallard, Peter Blick<br />
(director)<br />
• Sue Curran, Ann Muir (director)
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