Pan Pacific Masters Games participants arrive for fierce and friendly competition

A mass influx of Pan Pacific Masters Games participants headed to the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre today to pick up their accreditations for the 13th edition of the biennial event.


Equestrian Dressage attracts record field in a celebration of sport for all ages

What better way to celebrate your 76th birthday than to saddle up ‘Prince of Thieves’ and trot it out in the Pan Pacific Masters Games (PPMG) Equestrian Dressage competition. Spritely septuagenarian Wendy Pailthorpe can normally be found on the arena sidelines coaching her granddaughter, but the tables turned today with Ryder Wilkie offering her ‘GG’ some last-minute tips before her dressage test this morning.


Steve to take huge leap of faith at the 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games

For Steve Logan, diving from a 10-metre platform is nothing compared to the challenges life has thrown at him. The Liverpool-born former Great Britain national diving representative will return to competition at the 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games, despite not …


Mick’s on a mission to fulfill lifelong dream and compete in five sports at the Pan Pacific Masters Games

Runaway Bay’s Mick Schuddinh is on a mission to fulfill a lifelong dream at November’s 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast. The 71-year-old former South African military paratrooper, university graduate, teacher, certified financial planner, and qualified and …



Boxing competition in expert gloves for 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games

A former Australian light heavyweight champion, Thompson’s career has spanned decades, during which he has played pivotal roles as a trainer, manager, referee, and technical official on the world stage.