The event started at Kairakau Beach with the first section taking the teams up and over the imposing cliffs behind the Village via the high point and back to the Transition at the Race HQ,
Braden Currie Ironman NZ 21 win "This year, on my fifth attempt to get that monkey off my back, I pulled off the race I’d been hoping for all those years"
18 year old Kiwi snowboarder Cool Wakushima (Queenstown) has finished in 7th place at the final FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup of the season held at Corvatsch Park in Silvaplana, Switzerland overnight.
New Zealand freeskiers Finn Bilous and Margaux Hackett (both Wanaka) have finished in 7th and 8th place respectively at the FIS Freeski Slopestyle World Cup