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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
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• By Gordon Findlater<br />
THE WINNER of the<br />
country’s first ever Winter<br />
Olympic medal has proven<br />
to be just as talented with<br />
the surf after winning<br />
two titles in her first<br />
competition.<br />
Annalise Coberger<br />
– who became the first<br />
southern hemisphere athlete<br />
to win a medal at the<br />
Winter Olympics when she<br />
won silver in the slalom<br />
at the 1992 games – won<br />
both the over 40 women’s<br />
longboard division and the<br />
women’s logger division<br />
at the Duke Festival of<br />
Surfing in New Brighton<br />
WITH ST Kentigern<br />
College’s scholarship<br />
scheme dividing opinion<br />
this week it only seems<br />
fitting our metro rugby<br />
competition is about to<br />
kick-off and display the<br />
effect of its own onesided<br />
affair caused by<br />
scholarships.<br />
Lincoln University will<br />
go for their fifth straight<br />
premier metro title when<br />
the competition kicks off on<br />
Saturday. So, the question<br />
begs, can anyone stop them?<br />
Probably not.<br />
<strong>The</strong> scary thought for<br />
any opposition is that if<br />
the Crusaders elect to<br />
send some of their fringe<br />
backline players to club<br />
rugby then Lincoln has<br />
the look of a Super Rugby<br />
backline with the likes of<br />
Eri Enari, Brett Cameron,<br />
Caleb Makene and Ngani<br />
Punivai.<br />
While the top talent<br />
coming out of secondary<br />
school this year appears to<br />
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recently.<br />
Coberger, 47, only<br />
began surfing four years<br />
ago when her husband<br />
convinced her the family<br />
should give it a go.<br />
“I’m just doing it for<br />
fun,” said Coberger.<br />
“I didn’t even really want<br />
to go in the comp, but my<br />
friends made me.”<br />
In the over 40 women’s<br />
longboard Coberger scored<br />
an 11.8 to win ahead of<br />
multiple time senior age<br />
group national champion<br />
Donna Henderson. In<br />
the women’s logger event<br />
Coberger scored a 10.8<br />
to pip Auckland’s Sasha<br />
Brownlie who scored 10.1.<br />
be spread more throughout<br />
other Christchurch clubs<br />
this year there’s a good<br />
chance it’s a one-off.<br />
Christ’s College come<br />
St Kents College player<br />
Isiah Punivai and fellow<br />
former St Kents prop<br />
Tamaiti Williams have<br />
joined Burnside. However,<br />
if a club takes on a Crusaders<br />
academy player who is<br />
attending Canterbury University<br />
rather than Lincoln<br />
University the club has to<br />
pay a contribution towards<br />
the player’s scholarship fee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other side of the<br />
argument much like St<br />
Kents if the opportunity<br />
it creates for players. You<br />
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SURF AND<br />
SNOW:<br />
Olympic silver<br />
medalist<br />
Annelise<br />
Coberger won<br />
the women’s<br />
logger division<br />
and over 40<br />
women’s<br />
division.<br />
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surferswall.<br />
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Winter<br />
Olympian<br />
at home on the water<br />
For 25 years Coberger<br />
remained the only New<br />
Zealander to win a Winter<br />
Olympic medal after her<br />
effort at the 1992 games in<br />
Albertville, France.<br />
She became the first New<br />
Zealander to win a Europa<br />
Cup event and was the slalom<br />
champion in 1991 and<br />
1992. Coberger also briefly<br />
headed the world rankings<br />
in 1992-93.<br />
She narrowly missed a<br />
medal at the 1993 world<br />
championships in Japan<br />
when she was ruled to have<br />
missed a gate.<br />
At the 1994 Lillehammer<br />
Olympics she crashed on<br />
her first run.<br />
Two sides to the arguments<br />
over rugby scholarships<br />
One-eyed Cantab<br />
Gordon Findlater<br />
gordon.findlater@starmedia.kiwi<br />
scholarship coinciding<br />
with an era of dominance<br />
by Canterbury (nine titles<br />
in 11 years) and the Crusaders<br />
(back to back Super<br />
Rugby titles).<br />
<strong>The</strong> only question that<br />
remains is if the cost to an<br />
intriguing club competition<br />
is worth the pay-off at<br />
the elite level.<br />
It’s hard to argue against<br />
something that is clearly<br />
benefiting rugby at the<br />
top level in Canterbury.<br />
However, I’d really love<br />
just for once to be looking<br />
ahead to the club season<br />
and genuinely wonder<br />
who might take it out this<br />
season.<br />
•More metro premier<br />
rugby, page 45
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