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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gold Coast cycling identity Sara Carrigan says she is excited about the return of Road Cycling to the Pan Pacific Masters Games (4-13 November) sport program in 2022 after an eight-year hiatus.
