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PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 7<br />
From canoeing at Kerrs Reach<br />
to representing NZ in Bulgaria<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
PARKLANDS’ PIETA Luthi<br />
will be the youngest member<br />
of the New Zealand team at a<br />
world championship canoeing<br />
event in July.<br />
The 16-year-old will compete<br />
in the International Canoe<br />
Federation canoe sprint<br />
junior and under-23 world<br />
championships in Bulgaria.<br />
Pieta will join the New<br />
Zealand under-18 team and<br />
travel to<br />
Europe for<br />
the event.<br />
In spite of<br />
only being<br />
involved<br />
with canoe<br />
racing<br />
for three<br />
seasons,<br />
Pieta Luthi<br />
this will<br />
be Pieta’s<br />
second time<br />
representing New Zealand,<br />
In February, she represented<br />
her country at the canoe sprint<br />
Oceania championships and<br />
Grand Prix 2 in Sydney.<br />
Her success continued later<br />
that month when she competed<br />
at the NZCT New Zealand<br />
canoe sprint championships<br />
on Lake Karapiro, Cambridge,<br />
and took home 10 medals. Pieta<br />
said it was her most successful<br />
regatta to date, winning medals<br />
for both individual and crew<br />
events in two separate age<br />
groups – under-16 and under-18.<br />
She raced under her club colours<br />
for the Arawa Canoe Club,<br />
which trains at Kerrs Reach.<br />
It will be Pieta’s first time<br />
SPORTS<br />
IN ACTION: Pieta Luthi will travel to Bulgaria in July as the<br />
youngest athlete in the New Zealand under-18 canoeing<br />
team.<br />
travelling to Bulgaria and she is<br />
excited to have family travelling<br />
from Switzerland to support her.<br />
“I’m a little bit nervous, I’m<br />
not really too sure what to<br />
expect . . . it will be cool to be on<br />
a bigger world stage,” she said.<br />
STOKED: Johnny Tuivasa-Sheck, brother to Warriors captain<br />
Roger, helped inspire Linwood Avenue School to win the<br />
Canterbury year 5 and 6 rugby league tournament.<br />
Tuivasa-Sheck brother<br />
inspires Linwood Ave<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
A TUIVASA-SHECK helped<br />
inspire Linwood Avenue School to<br />
win the Canterbury year 5 and 6<br />
rugby league tournament.<br />
But it wasn’t Warriors captain<br />
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.<br />
His younger brother Johnny,<br />
who has a fan engagement role<br />
with the NRL franchise, was at<br />
the tournament and helped power<br />
Linwood to victory in a tight final.<br />
Linwood defeated Te Waka<br />
Unua School 16-12 in the decider.<br />
The one-day competition, held<br />
annually at South Hagley Park,<br />
was organised by Primary Sports<br />
Canterbury and Canterbury<br />
Rugby League.<br />
The team spent five weeks<br />
training twice a week, said coach<br />
Colin Hill.<br />
He said the boys were “stoked”<br />
to get a photo with Tuivasa-Sheck,<br />
who was at the tournament to<br />
promote the upcoming Warriors<br />
v Manly Sea Eagles game in<br />
Christchurch on June 9.<br />
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