North Canterbury News: May 06, 2021
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NEWS<br />
The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>May</strong> 6, <strong>2021</strong><br />
37<br />
Wrestlers<br />
put up a<br />
good fight<br />
Overall winner ... Stuart Allan’s champion image, Islands of Mohua.<br />
Island image wins landscape contest<br />
Stuart Allan won the champion<br />
overall image at the Rangiora<br />
Photographic Society’s<br />
landscape competition.<br />
His image, Islands of Mohua,<br />
also won the Agrade section<br />
and gained honours.<br />
Daniel Wong was the judge.<br />
Runners pour into<br />
Hanmer for races<br />
More than1140 competitors<br />
took part in Saturday’s three<br />
racesstaged as part of the<br />
Hanmer 4Square Half<br />
Marathon.<br />
Competitors were mainly<br />
from Christchurch, with20<br />
percent from the <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> area,and similar<br />
numbers fromthe <strong>North</strong><br />
Island, including Auckland,<br />
Rotorua and Wellington.<br />
The events, which<br />
comprised the halfmarathon<br />
plus a10km race and a5km<br />
race,were heldbyHanmer<br />
Events as partofthe Hanmer<br />
Springs CommunityTrust to<br />
raisefunds for the Hanmer<br />
community.<br />
Eventdirector Jessica<br />
Hildage was pleased with the<br />
support the event received.<br />
‘‘We had afantastic turnout<br />
and it was greattosee so many<br />
people in Hanmersupporting<br />
Results<br />
Champion image overall:<br />
Islands of Mohua,byStuart<br />
Allan.<br />
Best in grades:<br />
AGrade: Islands of Mohua.<br />
BGrade: West Coast Evening,<br />
by Alan Dunscombe.<br />
the event and the village,’’ she<br />
said.<br />
It was adelayed 40th<br />
anniversaryevent, withlast<br />
year’s halfmarathoncancelled<br />
because of Covid19.<br />
Hanmer Springs turned on a<br />
clear and crisp day for the<br />
racing.Jessica said every<br />
participant completed their<br />
race.<br />
Results<br />
Halfmarathon, men:Blair<br />
McWhirter–1hr 17min.<br />
Halfmarathon, women:<br />
Hannah Oldroyd –1hr 24min.<br />
10km, men:Dave Cox –<br />
41min 32 sec.<br />
10km, women: Katherine<br />
Camp, 39min 18sec.<br />
5km,men: Scott Ferguson,<br />
19min <strong>06</strong>sec<br />
5km,women:EllenBurch,<br />
23min 26sec.<br />
CGrade: Kaikoura Ranges<br />
Mirrored in Miniature,byStuart<br />
Taylor.<br />
Honours: Grade, Fiordland<br />
Waterfall, by Cathy Price;<br />
Pegasus Sunrise,bySarah<br />
Perrins; Stoney Face,byLisa<br />
Carter; Light Breaks Through by<br />
Rosie Coster; Islands of Mohua,<br />
by Stuart Allan.<br />
BGrade: West Coast Evening,<br />
by Alan Dunscombe.<br />
CGrade: New Brighton Pier,<br />
by Nathan Green; Kaikoura<br />
Ranges Mirrored in Miniature,<br />
by Stuart Taylor.<br />
Job well done ... Lisa Jones, from Christchurch, finishes the 10km race in<br />
Hanmer Springs last Saturday.<br />
PHOTO: SUPPLIED<br />
Unified Championship<br />
Wrestling’s Rise To The<br />
Top fight night was held at<br />
the Kaiapoi Club recently.<br />
Rhys Gibson and Kai<br />
Solomon defeated Nick<br />
Silver and Tripp Hazard.<br />
John Reginald (senior<br />
referee) defeated Damian<br />
Knight, ‘‘to retain his<br />
referee contract’’.<br />
Grace Lightning<br />
defeated Shay in the first<br />
Unified women’s fight.<br />
Stuart the Druid<br />
defeated Jitters<br />
C.O.T. to qualify for the<br />
light heavyweight ladder<br />
match.<br />
Luka The Tootoo Train<br />
defeated Robbo ‘‘The<br />
Aussie Dreamboat’’, while<br />
Southern Wrecking Crew<br />
defeated In The Zone.<br />
Jay Marshal defeated<br />
Lance Havoc to become<br />
Aftershock champion.<br />
Kawa Kupa defeated<br />
Bryant and William<br />
Cutting to become twotime<br />
Unified heavyweight<br />
champion.<br />
John Henry defeated<br />
Hu$tla, James Shaw the<br />
Divine Saviour and Stuart<br />
the Druid to become the<br />
new Unified light<br />
heavyweight champion.<br />
The next Unified event,<br />
Livin’ The Dream,will take<br />
place on June 19.<br />
LOST AND FOUND<br />
The followingproperty has<br />
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leatherwallet withteal<br />
edges, aMazda keywith a<br />
green Vbottle opener,two<br />
keyswith black on them/<br />
securitysystem fob/red tag,<br />
agold Seiko men’s watch.<br />
The followingproperty is<br />
waitingtobeclaimed:A<br />
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(Kaiapoi).<br />
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