Sydney boxer brings his own cheer squad for his PPMG debut.

With encouragement from fellow team members Sydney’s Phil Clarke decided to break the seven-year hiatus from competitive boxing and make his comeback at the 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games.


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.


International Olympic shooter Chiara Costa to take both barrels to the Pan Pacific Masters Games

Italian/Senegalese Olympic shooter Chiara Costa (49) may have one of the most captivating backstories among the 16,000 participants expected at the Pan Pacific Masters Games, on the Gold Coast from November 1-10.


100-day countdown to 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games

In just 100 days more than 16,000 athletes will be on their marks and set to GO when the biggest multisport competition in the southern hemisphere kicks off on Queensland’s Gold Coast.


Pan Pacific Masters Games to remain a biennial event

Following extensive consideration of feedback from loyal Pan Pacific Masters Games (PPMG) sports, participants and stakeholders the decision has been made not to proceed with an annual event and resume a biennial delivery of the largest and most successful masters multisport event in the world. Planning has commenced to deliver a bigger, reinvigorated and even more exciting Pan Pacific Masters Games experience from 01 – 10 November 2024.


Dual transplant recipient leaps into her first Pan Pacs

Victorian Calisthenics exponent Sonia Chapple is headed to her first Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast (4-13 November 2022) thankful she’s not the founding member of a very exclusive club. “I had a liver transplant 10 years ago, a pancreas transplant six and a half years ago and there was talk at one stage that I might need a kidney transplant,” Sonia said.


Diving champ swimming for gold in the ocean and the pool at the 2022 Pan Pacific Masters Games

Queensland’s Damon Kendrick (63) is a former springboard diving champion, a one-time trapeze artist and these days a competitive swimmer. He’s also been a poster boy for blood donation for the past half century after having his right leg below the knee surgically amputated following a shark attack just south of Durban, South Africa in the summer of 1974.