Race Walking New Zealand promotes and develops Race Walking in New Zealand and schedules RWNZ Championships in conjunction with local Race Walking clubs. It is organised under a nationally elected Management Committee, supported by relevant sub-committees such as -

• Development
• Coaching
• Competition Program 
• Finance
• etc.

Your Local Area Representative is available to give support and advice, why not contact them today. Click here to find your Representative.

RWNZ also produces a newsletter - "CONTACT" which is sent to Members on a regular basis. These are archived onto this website 6 months after production. Please go to our Contact Newsletter page. Take your time browsing through the articles.

Upcoming Events

RWNZ, Athletics NZ and International Events        

• 4th Feb - International Track Meet - Christchurch.
• 5th - 12th Feb - Oceania Masters Championships - Tauranga. Details gradually posted on Masters website.
• 11th Feb - Porritt Classic - Hamilton
• 2nd - 4th Mar - NZ Masters Track & Field Championships - Auckland.
• 3rd Mar - Australian Olympic Track & Field Trials - Melbourne. 
• 23rd - 25th Mar - Athletics New Zealand Track & Field Champs plus Olympic Trials - Waitakere, Auckland.
• 31st Mar - 1st Apr - North Island Secondary Schools Champs - Tauranga
• 31st Mar - 1st Apr - South Island Secondary Schools Champs - Nelson
• 13th Apr - 15th Apr - Australian Open T&F Champs - Melbourne
• 20th May - Ekiden relay incorporating the RWNZ relay championships, Trentham - details to come.
• 9th June - TRWC Open Walk in New Plymouth incorporating the 15km RWNZ Championships. 

        Walker friendly events

• 12th February - The Front Runner half marathon and 10km along the New Plymouth Coastal walkway, held in conjunction with the Wells half Ironman. $200 for 1st male and female in both walks, also $100 for 2nd places in all categories.
• 4th March - Mountain to Surf Marathon - Scrutineers supplied by Taranaki Race Walkers. See official website.
• 15th April - Run/Walk Hawkes Bay half marathon from Havelock North - walker friendly.

          Latest Updates

• 25th Jan - See the Results page for Capital Classic 3,000 metres. 
• 15th Jan - Updated race walking results from the South Island Colgate Games, see Results page. 
• 11th Jan - Updated race walking results from North Island Colgate Games, see results. 
• 4th Jan 2012 - Happy New year everybody. Results posted from events in Tauranga from 1st and 3rd Jan. Also added Contact mag - September issue. 
• 12th Dec - Follow this link for a video clip from the NZSS Track and Field Champs. This is the finish of the girl's 2,000m race (except they missed Courtney), still 3,000m to come yet. 
• 12th Dec - Some very impressive results by the Australians in their 50km Olympic trials on Sunday in Melbourne. Six  Australians managed qualifying times. Follow the link to read more. 
• 12th Dec - see the results page for the New Zealand Secondary Schools Track and Field Champs, walk results. 
• 1st Nov - Congratulations to Graeme Jones on taking out the 50km title at the Long Distance Championships in Palmerston North. Well done to Rosie who retained her Senior Women's title and also went on to do a PB in the 20km in a sub 1 hour 50 minutes. See the Results page for all the details. 
• 24th Oct - Invitation to 2 events in Tauranga in the new year - 3,000m walk on the 1st January and 10,000 metres on th 3rd January. See the attached invitation. 
• 24th Oct - new home for web pages for RaceWalking Auckland, update your links to -   http://www.sportsground.co.nz/racewalkingauckland  
• 24th Oct - see Results page for RaceWalking Auckland's 5,000m Championship held on 23rd Oct. 
• 24th Oct - see the results page for 3 New Zealand Age Group records in the 10,000m, set at the South Island Masters Champs in Nelson.
• 3rd Oct - entries now open for the walker friendly Napier City PAKnSAVE half marathon on 6th Nov. 
• 3rd Oct - results for Daily News Half marathon and Sri Chinmoy 12 & 24 hour event added to Results Page. 
• 27th Sept - Added 50km Championship results from 1956 onwards - taken from Centurions website and brought up to date - thank you Gary Little for giving me the link. 
• 26th Sept - Entry forms and details of Long Distance walks now on the Athletics NZ website. 
• 25th Sept - Dudley Harris 1926 - 2011; RaceWalking Auckland Life Member. 
• 25th Sept - Latest result from TRWC season. 
• 19th Sept - Guidelines and Policy statement for Trans Tasman Selection in Hobart 2012. 
• 19th Sept - Advance Notice for AGM. 
• 19th Sept - see results page for latest results from Auckland and Taranaki. 
• 17th Sept - see results page for RWNZ 35km Championship event. 
• 11th September - Peter Zwart and Manawatu Striders are putting a lot of effort into the organisation of the Long Distance Champs in Palmerston North on the 30th October. All walkers are catered for whether you want to go for the Championship Races (50km Men, 15km Senior Women, 20km Masters Women or even the 20km Oceania trial race); or the Non Championship events - make your own choice for distance. Please get the date of 30th October in your diary now. Also the RWNZ AGM is on the 29th. Various documents follow - Venue map; Non-Championship entry form; General details for the event. Return soon for more info on the Championship events and also the Oceania trial.
• 11th September - renewal of your membership to RWNZ is now due. This is only $25 for an individual or $30 for a Family. Your membership helps towards the development of our sport, you can access the membership renewal here. If you are not currently a member and would like to join then you can access the new member form here.
• 3rd September - Quentin Rew has managed 24th place in the 50km World Championships in Daegu today. This was a race that once again demonstrated current Russian dominance of Race Walking. See Results page for more details. 
• 31st Aug - see the results page for the 20km Women's IAAF World Champs from Daegu. 
• 29th Aug - Many of you I am sure subscribe to the Athletics in Action publication. If you don't, you should! Here is a link to the latest with a fantastic article on Quentin Rew - some very good reading. 
• 29th Aug - Mike Parker is still aspiring to become the Most Ancient of NZ Athletic Champions! Mike was 58 years and 121 days when he won his Road Walk Championship in Wellington on 20th August! Peter Baillie still remains the most ancient having won the 50km title in 2006 at the age of 58 years 194 days - well done Peter.
• 29th Aug - see the Results page for the IAAF World Champs Men's 20km result. 
• 29th August - latest result from Auckland and National Road Champs Judges Summary sheet. 
• 29th August - 5 gold standards achieved in the one hour event - see results page. 
• 21st Aug - All the results from the Athletics New Zealand Road Walk Championships raced on the waterfront in Wellington. 
• 15th August - Don't miss 1 Hour track event at Massey in Palmerston North on 28th August. See how far you can go in 60 minutes - A grade event starts at 11:00 and B grade at 12:20. A time to catch up with your fellow walkers in a more relaxed atmosphere. See the attached flyer. 
• 11th August - official results now in for BOP/Waikato Road Champs - see Results Page.
• 10th August - Road Champs results are now in for Nelson, Canterbury and Otago, with a snippet from BOP/Waikato.
• 10th August - see the News page for latest circular from David Lonsdale. 
• 10th August - now official results for Taranaki Road Champs updated. 
• 7th August - results added for Wellington and Taranaki Road Champs. 
• 1st August - the latest results updated. 
• 18th July - very interesting new concept - see news page for the Pit lane! 
• 17th July - results from Taranaki, Wellington and Auckland can be found on the results page. 
• 17th July - Our Golden Girl completes her gold collection in Sacramento today. Yet more amazing results for New Zealand Walkers. See the Results page. 
• 13th July - Excellent results for New Zealand Athletes in the World Masters in Sacramento today. Go to results page. 
• 9th July - Go to Nyle's blogs for excellent reports on the WMA - experience with her as she wins gold, follow other links from there to read how others view walking. Go to Nyle's blog here. 
• 9th July - even more success for New Zealand today in the 5,000 metres walk in Sacramento with another Bronze medal. See the Results Page for more info.
• 8th July - 1 Gold and 2 Bronzes for New Zealand Athletes at the World Masters on first day of walking in Sacramento, see Results page for more details. Good luck to Mike Parker and Peter Fox tomorrow. 
• 27th June - Quentin Rew and Graeme Jones in dead heat for the 15km RWNZ championship in New Plymouth. Alana Barber takes gold in the Women's 15km championship. For all the results and info on a very successful weekend go to the results page. 
• 20th June - Congratulations to Quentin Rew - he has been selected for the 50km World Champs - read more ... 
• 20th June - Entry to the Taranaki Open walk this weekend just became an even more valuable commodity with the confirmed selection of Quentin for the World champs later this year. Now for your entry and meal money, you not only get to race Quentin, but you get to hear him talk on Saturday evening. Get those entries in now - details are here, entry forms are here. 
• 7th June - 1 hour track walk announced for Massey track in Palmerston North - see events.
• 7th June - Racewalking Auckland retain Harry Kerr trophy. See results page.
• 7th June - Taranaki Open walk details and entry form posted - see events info above. 
• 24th May - see the results of the Wellington Scottish Ekiden Relays (incorporating the RWNZ Relay Championships) on the Results page. Note - I have serious problems with my Computer at the moment, report will follow ASAP.
• 10th May - latest result from Wellington - see results page. 
• 9th May - latest results from Taranaki and Auckland - see results page. 
• 3rd May - see the splits from Taicang on the results page. 
• 28th April - Well done to Quentin Rew who has taken 18 minutes off his 50km PB finishing 14th at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Taicang, full story in Results. 
• 25th April - Some great photos of the NZ Track and Field Championships in Dunedin - thank you Alan McDonald, Macspeedfoto. 
• 19th April - results of 20,000 metres Auckland Centre Championships. 
• 19th April - Commonwealth Youth Games announced - see News. 
• 19th April - see latest news circular from David Lonsdale. 
• 13th April - added lots of photos from 2010 combined Road and LD Championships, thank you M. Holcroft. 
• 5th April - added the 1 hour track walk result from Newtown Park, 19th March see results page. 
• 5th April - North and South Island Secondary Schools Track and Field Championship results added.
• 29th March - results from the National track and field championships in Dunedin.
• 29th March - Final Grand Prix Table 
• 14th March - added photos of the Capital Classic. 
• 14th March - further details posted on 1 hour track walk this Saturday (19th March) in Wellington. 
• 14th March - Matthew Holcroft - 2PBs in 48 hours at the Australian Junior Championships at Olympic Park in Sydney - read more ... 
• 14th March - Normal entries for the Track and Field Championships in Dunedin have closed, see the attached list of walkers in the 3,000, 10,000 and 20,000 metres championships. Further entries can be made for an additional $50 up to midnight Tuesday 15th March. See the attached link for complete list of entries in all disciplines on the Athletics NZ website. 
• 14th March - Check out the Grand Prix table, final adjustments made before the Track and Field Championships. 
• 7th March - Wellington Centre Championship - 20km result. 
• 7th March - All member circular No.1 2011. 
• 29th January - Capital Classic result posted in round 5 of the Grand Prix Series. 
• 26th January - latest Grand Prix result from the Cooks Classic 
• 23rd January - 2 new interesting links, USA High School Race walking and World Masters times, go to links page. 
• 23rd January - latest Grand Prix result from Sylvia Potts. 
• 17th January - latest Grand Prix results added. 
• 16th January - well done to Jonathon Lord, exceptional performance at the Colgate Games in Dunedin today, 16th January. Andrew Jackson (Auckland) won the North Island 2000 metres (B14) and also entered the South Island Colgate Games; normally you would expect that 5:35 per K would take 1st place, but not when Jonathon scorched home at around 4:45 per K to win in a time of 9:37.19. An extract of all the walks results can be viewed here.
• 10th January - North Island Colgate Games Walks results - 8th and 9th January 2011. There are some stand out performances by the Murrihys from Taumaranui (soon to be Wellington) and the Morattis of Inglewood in the girls results. The best male result is from Andrew Jackson (Race Walking Auckland). I have extracted the walks results which are just a click away. 
• 10th January - new page added for Grand Prix series  - Click here.
• 10th January - Two new events by Scottish Walkers for their Summer series have been announced, these are a 20km road race at Trentham on 27th February and a one hour track walk on the 19th March. All welcome both A and B grades. See calendar above for more details.
• 10th January - first announcement for the Ekiden relay championships confirming the date of 22nd May. Also details a couple of changes which relate to place of residency of club members and also allowing for 5 walkers instead of 6 if club is scratching to have 6 walkers. See the note from David Lonsdale here.
• 20th December - Daniel Lord and Rosie Robinson are the Otago 10km Road Walk Champions for 2010. Daniel did the 10km in 52m17s and Rosie did 52m23s. This was raced over the course to be used for Track and Field Champs at the end of March in Dunedin. For further results follow the link. 
• 20th December -  New Grand Prix Race Walking series for RWNZ members. Prize money up for grabs for the 1st 3 men and women overall in the Series. This is your chance to race against your fellow Race walkers in a Series of 8 events that extends from Auckland to Dunedin. For all the details, click here.
• 12th December - Courtney Ruske was first Female home in the NZ Secondary Schools Championships 2000 metre walk today in a very smart time of 9m52.69s. Second was Lucinda Shaw and third was Maggie Bradley. Matthew Holcroft is the 3000 metre Secondary Schools Champion winning by over 2 minutes from Jonathon Lord and a further minute back to Ben Meikle. Matthew's winning time was 13m18.43s. Full results of walks can be found here.
• 6th December - Extract of Race Walking results from South Island Masters Track and Field Champs - 3rd to 5th December 2010 - Invercargill. For the results of all events, follow this link.
• 29th Nov - Racewalking Auckland 10,000metre track championships 2010 Yvette Williams track Pakuranga 28 November 2010. - Racing for the first time on Pakuranga’s new all weather surface at Lloyd Ellsmore Park, Racewalking Auckland members perservered  for 25 laps, with Mike Parker leading all the way to win by an almost 4 minute margin. In second place was David Sim, with the elder of the two Jackson brothers, Paul, finishing in third. The women’s championship was taken out by Shirley Barber. A tight tactical contest between Shirley and Andrew Jackson, saw Shirley lead to the 8km before Andrew pulled away over the final 5 laps. Full results here. Individual lap times can be accessed here.
• 25th Nov - Results from Race Walking Auckland's Creamer-Wilson One mile - Auckland Domain 21st Nov 2010.
• 23rd Nov - Extract of the Race Walking results from the North Island Masters Track and Field Championships from Inglewood - held on the 19th to 21st Nov. Many thanks to the walkers who made the effort to come from Wellington, Manawatu and Waikato. 16 walkers in the 3,000 metres and 11 in the 10K road walk (2 Wellington and 9 Taranaki). In the 3,000 metres there were 4DQs and 1 DNF. The 10K had 2 Dqs and 1 DNF. Judging was very consistent, but with strict IAAF rules there will always prove to be lots of DQs in the 60 plus age group, many are no longer able to lock. A question, if you are a Judge and a walker trips when walking past you, do you red card them? Love to know your opinions - within rule 230 it is definitely a red card, would you put in a red card (you can't do a baton, they are not in danger of infringing, they have infringed). E-mail me.
• 22nd Nov - Please ensure you fill in the survey on the attached circular and get your preferred options on distances for Championships known to David Lonsdale. Don't delay - we need to know by 3rd December. 
• 22nd Nov -  

  Desk top publishing skills

  When the late Jack Tregurtha wrote his booklet Race Walking in New Zealand he produced a very interesting resource and valuable aid to walkers and officials.  The Committee would like to revise it and publish it in loose leaf format in a ring binder, with a copy for every member.We have done some work on up-dating the text and will be looking for new photos.  Our biggest problem is that we need someone with desk top publishing skills to work with us on this project.  Can you help or do you have a friend who might help? If we can not get help from our membership putting the job out to a professional could put the whole project out of our price range.  So I hope someone can get in touch with David Lonsdale to offer some help. Phone 04 9778990

• 22nd Nov - Children as young as 10 (finally you all say) are able to walk at the Colgate Games in Hastings and/or Dunedin in January (Thanks to Sandra Moratti and the Taranaki Centre). Please try to get as many children as possible competing at these games. See Colgate Games.
• 22nd Nov - Congratulations Geoff Annear and Peter Wrigley who have both been confirmed  as IAAF Race Walking Judges on the IAAF Panel 2010 to 2014. Geoff Annear will be officiating at the Daegu World T&F Champs; Peter will be officiating at the Olympic Games in London. Most of you are aware of Peter and have met him regularly on the Walking circuit. Many of you (in the North Island at least) will not be aware of Geoff. He has a long history as an Official in Athletics and Race Walking. He lives in the Canterbury region. Geoff's appointment really strengthens the Race Walking judging panel in New Zealand.
• 22nd Nov - Minutes from 2010 AGM. 
• 19th Nov - Simon Baker talks Race Walking efficiency. This is a very interesting extract from the Victorian Racewalking "heel and Toe" newletter. 
• 19th Nov - Vision exposed - extracted from Contact Magazine. There is much more to seeing than meets the eye. 
• 19th Nov - IAAF Guide to Race Walk Judging and setup of events. 

Norm Read 2011, D. Moratti, M. White, S. Coombes, D. Wackrow, courtesy Taranaki Daily News.