News & Media
New initiatives for female coaches and leaders in HP sport
High Performance Sport NZ (HPSNZ) has today launched the two main pillars of its $2.7 million Women in High Performance Sport pilot project which seeks to create the right environment and opportunities for far greater representation of women in high performance leadership and coaching positions.
Annette Purvis joins High Performance Sport NZ board
Annette Purvis has been appointed to the High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) Board of Directors as the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) nominee. She will take up her role this week.
2032 High Performance System Strategy
The 2032 HP System Strategy is a living roadmap that sets out what the High Performance Sport System as a whole in New Zealand needs to achieve between now and 2032 and how it will go about this. It provides a whole of system view and contains 12 workstreams that span the breadth of the New Zealand High Performance system.
Two new directors appointed to board of High Performance Sport NZ
Hetty Van Hale and Rowan Simpson have been appointed to the High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) Board of Directors. Their appointments were confirmed in April and both take up their roles from today.
Statements of Intent
Sport NZ Group Statements of Intent and Statement of Performance Expectations
New Zealand’s Olympic Athletes Support Games Postponement
New Zealand Olympic and Paralympic Athletes have said they support a postponement of the Olympic Games, an approach backed jointly by the New Zealand Olympic Committee, HPSNZ and Paralympics New Zealand.
High Performance Sport NZ endorses youth sport campaign
New research shows most NZ pre-HP athletes play multiple sports “Specialising later is not going to reduce New Zealand’s chances of winning on the world stage”
High Performance Sport NZ core investment for 2020
High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) has today confirmed a $36.8 million core investment programme for 2020, with some notable wins for women’s sport.
Complaints service to be rolled out across all High Performance programmes
High Performance Sport NZ (HPSNZ) and Sport NZ have today launched an interim independent complaints service for all sports that have high performance carded athletes.
In the media
- Stedman and Grimaldi win medals at Para Athletics World Champs
- World record and second gold for Aitchison at Para Athletics World Champs
- NZ Team name first eight for Milano Cortina
- Silver for Holly Robinson at Para Athletics World Championships
- Danielle Aitchison wins gold at World Para Athletics Championships
- Lisa Adams wins shot put gold at World Para Athletics Championships
- Cycling: Fisher-Black claims silver at UCI Road World Championships
- New Zealand Mixed Eight makes history at World Rowing Championships
- Second Silver for Leslie at World Para Swimming Championships
- Men's Pair claim gold at World Rowing Championships