The 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games (PPMG) has again proved its worth to the city and state continuing an upward trajectory in terms of participation and economic impact.
The 2024 Pan Pacific Masters Games has beaten five other major Gold Coast events including one from its own stable to take out the 2024 Gold Coast Sporting Event of the Year award.
Sunshine Coast Cotton Tree Masters Swimming Club patriarch China Johnson has a simple strategy to beating the opposition.
“I just outlive them,” he laughs, and which on face value seems a reasonable strategy for a 95-year-old turning 96 next month.
At six-and-a-half feet tall and weighing in at 160 kilograms, 48-year-old Patrick Muagututia is an undeniable presence on the rugby field.
As the leader of Auckland’s Richmond Bulldogs Masters Rugby League team, the man mountain commands respect each time he steps over the sideline.
He’s been coming to Pan Pacs since the early 2000s and has taken home a swag of medals with the Hunter Hawks softball team and that’s made him pretty happy.
Kristy Willson has lived with the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) for 18 years but when she walks on stage to perform in a calisthenics competition you wouldn’t know it.
It’s common to see recreational stand-up paddle boarders (SUP) testing their balance and skills in creeks, rivers and on tranquil seas around the country these days.
But there’s an increasing competitive side to the sport being showcased at the Pan Pacific Masters Games with the largest number of SUPs ever entered in this year’s competition.
The Nightsticks Hockey Club tackle a whole lot more than emergencies on the hockey field when the team of first responders from around Australia come together for mateship and sport at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (PPMG).
Just imagine. One day you are scraping ice off your dragon boat before training on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra and just days later you’re wiping the sweat from your brow in 30 plus degree temperatures as you power towards a world championship in Thailand.
Inspired by a flash mob in Sydney, and done to Uptown Funk, Chris wanted something to make their own at netball. “What better way at promoting women’s mental health than by playing sports, releasing all those endorphins and keeping yourself active,” Chris said.
