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Special Olympics NZ Grows Young Athletes
Sunday, 17 June 2007, 9:16 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Special Olympics NZ helps intellectually disabled kids through sport and their annual soccer tournament is to be held on Tuesday 19th June at Waikaraka Park in Auckland, from 10am to 2pm. More >>
1200 Athletes Compete In Largest Multi-Sport Event
Monday, 28 November 2005, 6:07 pm | Special Olympics NZ
More than 1200 athletes, 450 coaches and some 600 volunteers will come to Christchurch this week for New Zealand’s largest multi sport event – the 2005 Special Olympics New Zealand National and Asia Pacific Invitation Games. More >>
David Rutherford Appted to Special Olympics Board
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 12:05 am | Special Olympics NZ
5 July - The trustees of Special Olympics New Zealand (SONZ) announced today that David Rutherford had joined the board as a trustee. More >>
Special Olympics and ING NZ join forces
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 12:39 am | Special Olympics NZ
Special Olympics New Zealand (SONZ), the organisation that promotes sporting opportunities to people with an intellectual disability, and international financial services company ING (NZ) Limited, announced today that they have reached agreement for ING to support ... More >>
Special Olympics Ambassador Returning To NZ
Monday, 21 March 2005, 3:15 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Special Olympics New Zealand (SONZ), the organisation that promotes sporting opportunities to people with an intellectual disability, announced today that Special Olympics, in association with SKYCITY Auckland Community Trust, is again hosting Special Olympics ... More >>
Lomu To Spearhead Fundraiser For Special Olympics
Monday, 21 March 2005, 11:22 am | Special Olympics NZ
Jonah Lomu (recently announced Ambassador for Special Olympics New Zealand) and Loretta Claibourne (International Ambassador and internationally-renowned Olympics athlete), will be speaking at a Special Olympics fundraising lunch this month. The high-profile ... More >>
Special Olympics Team Returns Triumphant
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:33 pm | Special Olympics NZ
New Zealand's Special Olympics team, which is returning from Nagano, Japan, tomorrow, will be weighed down with medals after their hugely successful trip to compete in the 2005 Special Olympics World Winter Games. More >>
Special Olympics World Winter Games
Monday, 28 February 2005, 3:31 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Tomorrow (26 February) the New Zealand Special Olympics team will march into Nagano's M-Wave Arena alongside some 2,500 athletes from 80 countries as a part of the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Winter Games. More >>
Dreams Come True For Special Olympians
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 9:52 am | Special Olympics NZ
Next week a team of 11 Special Olympics New Zealand athletes, coaches and officials are leaving the heat to travel to Japan and compete in the 2005 Nagano Special Olympics World Winter Games in Nagano. More >>
A Year To Go Til Big Games
Monday, 29 November 2004, 5:56 pm | Special Olympics NZ
30 November is an important date in the life of Special Olympics New Zealand, the charitable organisation promoting sporting opportunities to people with intellectual disabilities throughout the country. More >>
Special Olympian Gets A Head Start
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 4:06 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Local Special Olympian Paul Spencer (Tamaki) has been given a head start to his international skiing career. Thanks to Auckland ski and snowboard equipment provider 'Snow Centre' Paul has just been donated a brand new set of skis to use when he competes at the ... More >>
Special Olympics Figuring Large
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 5:00 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Special Olympics New Zealand Ice Figure Skaters are really going places. Thanks to the addition of Special Olympics categories, four Special Olympics athletes are competing for the first time in this week's New Zealand National Ice Figure Skating Championship, ... More >>
Special Olympics Winter Games At Cardrona
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 12:57 am | Special Olympics NZ
Athletes from around the country converged on Cardrona Alpine Resort this week for the third New Zealand Special Olympics Winter Games. More >>
Special Olympians Reach For The Pinnacle
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 12:44 am | Special Olympics NZ
This weekend sees some top Special Olympics athletes head to the slopes of Cardrona Ski Field in Wanaka to test their skills at the 2004 Special Olympics New Zealand National Winter Games. More >>
Celebrity Set To Inspire Young Athletes
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 12:59 am | Special Olympics NZ
Thursday 17 June sees over 240 Auckland Secondary and Special Schools students join a very special guest from the United States - internationally renowned Special Olympics athlete and Ambassador Loretta Claiborne More >>
Lomu Leads Special Olympics Celebrity Cast
Friday, 11 June 2004, 5:51 pm | Special Olympics NZ
All Black great Jonah Lomu is the headline act for the 21st anniversary celebrations of Special Olympics New Zealand, culminating in a gala dinner at the new SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre on 18 June 2004. More >>
Team Returns Home Victorious
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 9:09 am | Special Olympics NZ
The Special Olympics New Zealand team of four athletes and three coaches returned home this morning after a successful trip to Japan, netting one gold and one bronze medal in ice-skating and skiing respectively. More >>
Four Special Olympics Athletes Go To Japan
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 4:31 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Four Special Olympics Athletes Go To Japan For Winter Games On Tuesday, 17th February, a team of four Special Olympics athletes and three coaches will be flying away from New Zealand’s scorching heat to touch down in the middle of Japan’s icy winter to ... More >>
Heart Warming Home Coming For NZ Special Olympians
Monday, 7 July 2003, 5:33 pm | Special Olympics NZ
New Zealand’s highly successful Special Olympics team arrived home safely today to a welcome home brigade of some two hundred family and friends. More >>
Special Olympics - World Summer Games Come To End
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 5:56 pm | Special Olympics NZ
The New Zealand team saw the end of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games draw to a highly emotional and spectacular conclusion yesterday in Dublin's Croke Park stadium, Ireland. More >>
