Jenny Laird thought her world had turned upside down when she suffered a stroke three years ago. An avid ocean swimmer, the 65-year-old New Plymouth gardener wanted to waste no time getting her life back together. “I was told by a close friend “you have a week to feel sorry for yourself, then you have […]
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Tokyo Olympic Games swimmer Zac Reid ticked off another milestone to become the first person to win four Flannagan Cup races in the event’s 105-year history. Swimming without a wetsuit, the 21-year-old swimmer, who has been selected to represent New Zealand in the 800m freestyle at this year’s Olympic Games, easily won the Open 3.6km […]
Taranaki’s top swimmer, Zac Reid, has made a late entry into this year’s Flannagan Cup. The open water swim off Ngāmotu Beach, New Plymouth, is usually held on Waitangi Day, and the Olympic qualifier will be away on that date. But this year the 3.6km competition, which was first held in 1916, is taking place […]
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Taranaki’s iconic ocean swimming race has served up some sibling success this year. Zac Reid, 17, and his younger sister Sasha Reid placed first and third respectively at this year’s Flannagan Cup, an open water swim off New Plymouth’s Ngāmotu Beach. Zac out swum 58 others who participated in the 3.6 kilometre race to claim […]
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One of the country’s oldest swimming events is in jeopardy of being cancelled because there’s no one around to run it. After a “mass start” for the centenary event of New Plymouth’s Flannagan Cup in 2016, a “mass exodus” of the cup’s committee members occurred. Sonia O’Connell of Swimming Taranaki, along with other volunteers, stepped […]
Brett Rogers from New Plymouth will go down in Flannagan Cup history as the last winner of the time–honoured open Water swimming race in its current form. Even though two swimmers crossed the line ahead of him, Brett Took the major honours in the 3.6 km race, finishing in a time of 1hr 27 min […]
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John Hardie Boys showed his sons how it’s done when winning the Flannagan Cup open water swimming race off Port Taranaki yesterday. The 54-year-old New Plymouth doctor was competing in the annual 3.6km ocean swim run under handicap conditions for the first time. Hardie Boys clearly sneaked under the handicappers’ radar, blitzing his rivals in […]
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New Plymouth’s Keith Allum has the jump on most in the Flannagan Cup open water swim. And rightly so. As the oldest competitor in the 3.6km swim, the 73-year-old will start near the front of the 67-strong field at New Plymouth’s Ngamotu Beach this morning. “I just plod along near the front. My standard 2.5km […]
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For the second year in a row but just the third time in 97 years, a woman has won the Flannagan Cup open water swim. New Plymouth’s Alice Doig followed the lead of last year’s winner Dee Nagle when taking line honours in the gruelling 3.6km handicap swim. Swimming Taranaki operations manager and event co-ordinator […]