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Royle and Maara crowned golf champs

The official Rarotonga Golf Club Season has now ended with Royle Brogan and Maara Kenning emerging as senior mens and ladies club champions for 2011. The battle to become club champion is always a tough one because, basically, players have to hold their form for the seven weeks of the competition first of all in […]

Final day fun in the sun

Vaka Eiva paddlers were treated to a double traditional turou welcome lots of sunshine and loads of fun at Muri yesterday when they gathered for the final oe vaka action in the sprint events. More than 500 paddlers gathered at the western end of Muri beach to be welcomed by a band of warriors from […]

Man of passion with a mission

Junior paddlers have been coming to Vaka Eiva from Australias Sunshine Coast since the competition opened up to young paddlers about 2006. Their numbers have been on the rise ever since for the most part and this year, with 43 junior paddlers coming from the Queensland area, its the largest group to have ever made […]

A great exchange

In a great exchange of donations and delight, Cook Islands schools and visiting Vaka Eiva paddling teams have come together throughout the festival as part of an adopt a school initiative. The visiting paddlers brought with them sporting goods, art supplies, pencils, books and many other items for their adopted schools. In exchange, the adoptive […]

Courting titles

Its a case of cool, calm experience versus a tenacious youth in todays mens singles tennis final at the National Tennis Centre. Soko Teinakirahi will face-off with Lillian Maui in the mens open division final today in a day of national senior championship finals. The day kicks off at midday and organisers are predicting a […]

Tahirihiri te reva o te Kuki Airani

Ko te anau teia a te Kuki Airani tei rave maroiroi atu i te angaanga akavaanga i te tuatau paanga poro ua mokora tei karanga ia e ko te Preident Cup tei raveia ki Melbourne i teia epetoma i topa ake nei. Kua rave maroiroi te anau Kuki Airani i ta ratou tuanga, mate mataku […]

Full Pacific Cup Round Raro V6 results

Junior paddlers tackle Cooks challenge

Vaka Eivas junior paddlers were out of the water yesterday and racing in a few Cook Islands favourites. There were stilt races, coconut shot-putting, husking races and a variety of relay races involving coconuts and awkward positions for the junior paddlers. Local and visitors aged from 10 to 19 took part in the events, dropping […]

Pa enua handiwork on display for paddlers

Traders from across the Cooks gathered in town yesterday for the first of two days of special markets held in conjunction with the Vaka Eiva festivities taking over Rarotonga. The best of the rest made the bulk of the day, with people of the pa enua making a particular effort to bring a slice of […]

Sprints and Paddles Up at Muri today

Vaka Eiva 2011 comes to an end today with the Muri sprints, Steinlager Muri mingler party and of course the Paddles Up closing ceremony and party. Paddlers will gather at the Ngatangiia sports ground at 8 oclock this morning for the traditional turou along Muri beach before sprint races start at 8.30am. This years oe […]

Maki loved life on the ocean

Aitutaki paddler Alan Maki has been remembered by friends as a hardworking yet down to earth man who loved life on the ocean. Maki was laid to rest yesterday afternoon in a service held at his family home in Amuri, Aitutaki. Vaka Eiva competitors at Rarotonga also held a minutes silence and said a prayer […]

Araura Enua blitzes 15km

Araura Enua under 19 womens oe vaka crew blitzed their age groups 15km open ocean race yesterday to win for their home island. The ladies finished over 2 minutes head of their opponents from the Sunshine Coast. The Aitutaki women won the race in 1:39:45 followed by the Sunshine Coast team in 1:41:32. Third place […]

Royal Family takes Worthington trophy

The combined strength and talent of Australian Crown Beach Kings and Belles oe vaka crew was just too hot to handle, and the crew took out yesterdays Bob Worthington Memorial Trophy for the mixed Round Raro Relay in a time of 2:54:52. The crew who paddled under the fitting name of the Crown Beach Royal […]

Turangi and Creeps inch closer to finals

The Muri Creeps and Turangi have pushed ahead in the latest round of the Computer Man Top 4 cricket competition. Turangi made light work of the newly promoted Titikaveka Titans side winning by 31 runs. Batting first Turangi scored just 169 through the superb efforts of captain Vane Tangimetua who stroked 71 runs. Things went […]

Late goal denies CI win

A goal scored deep into injury time has handed the Cook Islands national mens soccer team a crushing defeat to Samoa in the first day of Oceania qualifying for 2014 Brazil World Cup. The Cook Islands lost to the host team 3-2 in the match, which was only decided three minutes into injury time during […]

Clarkie enjoys paddling off the river

Rod Clarkie Clark of Echuca is taking on Vaka Eiva for the first time this year. A leading senior constable of the Victorian Police, he has been on the force since 1979 but the start of his paddling career predates the year he became a policeman. Clarkie says he has been canoeing since he started […]

Round Raro Relay results

The men’s Pacific Cup results (below) are only the top three teams in each of the race divisions. The full men’s results were not readily available last night due to the tragic death of Cook Islands paddler Alan Maki during yesterday’s race.

20 crews in mixed race

Around 20 mixed crews will race around Rarotonga today in hot pursuit of the Bob Worthington trophy. Judging by their performance this week, the Crown Beach mixed crew an amalgamation of yesterdays winning mens crew Crown Beach Kings and winning womens crew Crown Beach Belles have a good shot at the top spot. Two other […]

Lisa Townsend wins Boiler swim

The winner of Tuesday evenings Trader Jacks charity swim, Lisa Townsend, was not wearing a cow costume as a caption in yesterdays CINews indicated. She finished first in a time of 10:02 but was not pictured.

Crown Beach Kings reigned

Kings squad. “/> What they say about self-fulfilling prophecies must be true. Even before arriving in Rarotonga, Australias Crown Beach Kings were named the top contenders in yesterdays open mens Round Raro Race and as predicted, they finished six minutes ahead of the Cook Islands national squad to claim the coveted Pacific Cup. With a […]