Sports History NZ

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Jesse Mulligan talks to athletes, administrators and journalists about major moments in New Zealand sport.... more

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May 29, 2025 Adrian Blincoe
For today's sporting history, Perlina Lau talks to Adrian Blincoe who was a distance runner who represented New Zealand at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He also held the New Zealand record for the 5000m for 15 years.
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May 15, 2025 Allison Roe
For today's sporting history we're going back to the 1981, where a New Zealander took the running world by storm.
24-year-old Allison Roe, a long-distance runner from the Auckland's north shore, won both the prestigious Boston & New York marathons in the same year. She broke both course records and smashed the world record in New York. Only to have it controversially stripped weeks later. Allison became a global star overnight and became the first female to win the Halberg New Zealand Sportsperson of the Year award.
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May 08, 2025 Tall Fern legend Jody Cameron
This week we're joined by former Tall Fern legend Jody Cameron.
Jody competed at the Athens games with the Black Ferns in 2004 and now co-owns the all-female-owned basketball team the Northern Kahu. She also leads High Performance Sport New Zealand's initiative to help women pursue a career in high performance coaching.
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April 17, 2025 Katherine Oberlin-Brown
This week for sporting history I'm joined by Katherine Oberlin-Brown
At just 19 she was the women's two-time Motorcross World champion...
The first time anyone had held the title back-to-back.
Katherine had a glittering career in front of her. She might still be riding today... If it weren't for one fateful moment.
A training crash that left her with just a 50% chance of ever walking again.
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April 10, 2025 Tuariki Delamere
For today's sporting history we're going back to 1974. A fleeting moment - less than 11 seconds - when track & field bumped into gymnastics.
A splash of magic happened and a boy from Papakura came inches away from revolutionising the long jump. That boy was Tuariki Delamere. And that magic... The Delamere flip.
A short lived - and quickly banned - long jump technique. It involved doing a summersault mid jump.
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March 27, 2025 Noel Harris
The sport of horse racing has been Noel Harris' whole life. His father Jock was a Manawatū jockey and horse trainer, who won more than 350 races.
Following in his father's footsteps, Noel rode his first winner at Foxton on 16 May 1970 and by the time he retired from racing in 2015, had ridden over two-thousand winners in New Zealand.
He also won the jockeys' premiership in both New Zealand and Singapore.
In 2018, Harris was inducted into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame...and earlier this year was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the thoroughbred racing industry.
These days, Harris lives in Mount Maunganui and is a mentor for apprentice jockeys.
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March 13, 2025 Finn Butcher
In this segment we often go way back in time, but today we are focusing on somebody whose time is right here - right now.
Finn Butcher won the gold medal in the inaugural Olympic kayak cross event at the Paris Olympic Games last year.
That moment in time - on the water last year - catapulted 'The Butcher' from small town Alexandra into the nation's consciousness.
Then, last month, after a public vote, he was awarded the Favourite Sporting Moment award at 2025 Halberg Awards for the emotional post-race embrace he enjoyed with his father.
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28min
February 27, 2025 Hamish Kerr
In this segment we often go way back in time, but today we are doing something rare and focusing on the now.
It takes a special kind of athlete to get this treatment, but current Olympic high jump champion Hamish Kerr fits the bill
You might remember he won that gold medal after a jump off with American Shelby McEwen.
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28min
February 20, 2025 Billy Stead
Today we're focusing on the career of rugby union legend Billy Stead.
Billy Stead has been called "one of the most influential players in the early years of All Blacks rugby".
He was the first All Blacks test captain when they played Britain's touring team in 1904, and vice captain to the 1905-to-06 original All Blacks squad.
Lynn McConnell is an historian, sports journalist, and prolific author and he's just published 'Billy Stead's Rugby World'.
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25min
February 13, 2025 Mere Baker
She was once the captain of the Aotearoa Māori Sevens team and was with them through five victories at the Hong Kong Women's Sevens tournament.
In 2003 she was part of the Kiwi Ferns squad that took out the Rugby League World Cup.
She's continued to play a crucial role in the game - both here and abroad - since transitioning into coaching in 2012.
Mere Baker discussed her remarkable career with Emile Donovan.
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FAQs about Sports History NZ:

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The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.