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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“I can’t believe it … it’s a lovely surprise. This is my first open water race. I only bought my wetsuit before Christmas and tried it out on New Year’s Day. I’ve been out in it two or three times since.” Nagle, one of two swimmers to start off the front mark–go–for the 3.6km race, […]
Open water swimming rookie blitzed the field in the annual Flannagan Cup swim at New Plymouth’s Ngamotu Beach. But the celebrations were shortlived. The 53-year-old was stripped of the title after a protest, with second placegetter Adam Fraser, of New Plymouth, promoted to first in the 3.6km harbour swim. “There was no way he should […]
TOUGH RACE: Craig Dent takes a breather after winning the 2010 Flannagan Cup. […]