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Wanganui is known as the sports centre of New Zealand having a reputation internationally as one of the finest sports training regions in the world.
Visit www.sportwanganui.org.nz for a comprehensive list of sports organisations in the Wanganui region.
Featured Sporting Facilities
| Splash Centre |
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Wanganui’s indoor swimming pool consisting of an 8-lane 25 metre
recreation and lap pool and a learners pool for the under 8’s. We have
been open since March 1989 and offer lap swimming, recreation swimming,
aquarobics, learn to swim lessons and indoor rowing facilities.
Springvale Park
Tel: (06) 349 0113
More info
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| New Zealand Master Games
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Held bi-annually in February
Since its inception in 1989, the
NZ Masters Games has grown
from 1500 entrants competing
across 29 sports to over 8,000
entrants and 67 sports, making
it the biggest Masters Games
event in New Zealand by far. The
games is a 9 day event with 67
different sports and over 580
individual events. One of the
notable aspects of the games
in Wanganui is the intimacy
of the city. The Games Village
at Springvale Park is within 10
minutes of the main street. Most
venues are within 10 minutes
drive of the village. You will
find the sports venues to be
top quality and the weather is
guaranteed to be perfect.
www.nzmastersgames.com
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| YMCA Raukawa Adventure Centre |
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Parapara Highway (60kms North of Wanganui)
Tel: (06) 349 0197 - Office
or (06) 342 8510 - Camp
Email:
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www.ymca.org.nz
More info
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Cooks Gardens
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One of New Zealand’s leading
outdoor sporting venues, and
famous as the home of New
Zealand’s first sub 4-minute
mile when Peter Snell claimed
the record here in 1962. Cooks
Gardens features a 250-metre
wooden cycling Velodrome and
the Westpac Stadium with a
synthetic athletic track.
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Golf
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Wanganui boasts 2 major
championship golf courses.
Wanganui Golf Club is the
home of Belmont links, an 18
hole Championship course and
Castlecliff Golf Club a par 72 links
course. There is also the 9-hole
Tawhero Public Golf Complex
and Driving Range.
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Mountain Biking
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Recreational mountain bike
tracks are a feature of Hylton
Park, 4 km from the city centre.
The course is made up of a
series of benched single tracks
winding through pine and gum
trees and linked by 4WD vehicle
roads. There is open access to
this wilderness at all times. To
get there, head north along
Somme Parade and turn left into
Brunswick Road.
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Springvale Park
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An 11-hectare complex
equipped with modern multi-use
facilities for a wide range of
sports which includes the Splash
Centre with a 25-metre indoor
heated swimming pool offering a
range of recreational swimming
and water activities. Springvale Park is the North
Island base for the New Zealand
Masters Games, the largest multisport
event in New Zealand.
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