Weather brings players from afar

Travelling from far and wide, tennis players at the Pan Pacific Masters Games all agree that the Seniors Tennis Club in Miami on the beautiful Gold Coast is the reason they keep coming back. South Australian Anne Crouch, who is …


Debuting Darwin team starstruck in opener

Imagine stepping onto the beach volleyball court to play your first ever competitive match and staring at you through the net is a five-time Olympian. That was the shock for Darwin team Pen & Shazz today at the Pan Pacific …


Aussie team bolts to masters relay world record

The 14-year-old world masters record for the men’s 80+ 4x400m relay was obliterated this afternoon (Monday) at the Pan Pacific Masters Games athletics competition on the Gold Coast. Richard Hughes from Pennant Hills in Sydney, 80, Western Australia’s David Carr, …


Outrigger canoe win makes Mayes’ day

Olympian Gayle Mayes helped steer Mooloolaba to their first Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) gold medal in outrigger canoeing in what was a dominant paddling display at The Spit on the Gold Coast today (Saturday). Gayle represented …


Golden Glynis does it again despite injury scares

1984 Olympic heptathlon champion Glynis Nunn-Cearns has turned in a golden performance on the opening day of the 2012 Pan Pacific Masters Games athletics competition. Twenty eight years after her Los Angeles success, she blitzed the field in the final …


Oceans 9 take water polo gold over plucky Guppies

Even the ear bleeding urgings of Australia’s master motivator Laurie Lawrence weren’t enough for the Guppies to “get the chocolates” over arch rivals Oceans 9 in their women’s water polo final at the Southport Olympic Pool today  (Sunday). With seven …


Pan Pacs the new Olympics says Bruynius

Every athlete’s goal is to go to the Olympics, but when that just isn’t an option anymore, the 2012 Pan Pacific Masters Games could well become the ultimate field of play. Or so says veteran Sunshine Coast volleyball player, former …


The Gold Coast Jewels are all shine on the volleyball court

The Gold Coast Jewels are shining brightly on the volleyball court at this year’s Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) as they continued their undefeated streak in the women’s competition at St Hilda’s School today. Boasting a strong …


New Zealand golden girls show Aussies how it’s done

Opting to fly rather than row across the Tasman Sea to compete in rowing at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) was one of the best decisions made by one New Zealand pair who dominated the field …


Winning gold on the Gold Coast

Gold Coaster Karen Smith may have had home course advantage in the Pan Pacific Masters Games rowing competition on Sunday, but her four-year winning streak proves that she’s always ready to blow the competition out of the water. The Coomera …