Emma Foy and pilot Jessie Hodges blitzed a strong field to win gold in the women’s tandem para pair time trial. Photo: The New Zealand Team
Athletes with strong links to Waipā and northern King Country picked up 11 of the 36 medals won by New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Ōtorohanga connected cyclist Nicole Murray rode herself to exhaustion in sealing the bronze medal in the women’s C4-C5 individual pursuit.
Nicole Murray
With her record at major events Murray should be a household name in New Zealand.
She’s won 13 medals, including two gold, in world para track champs and three more in the equivalent road champs, and won a bronze medal in the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Cyclist Emma Foy and stoker Jessie Hodges (Ngāhinapōuri) won two gold and Cambridge’s Devon Briggs one of the 10 collected by New Zealand.
Cambridge’s Devon Briggs in action at the 2025 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships.
There were silvers for Bryony Botha, Ally Woolaston, Ellesse Andrews and Tori Moorby and bronze to Te Awamutu’s Hazel Ouwehand, Briggs, Andrews and Ōtorohanga’s Nicole Murray.
New Zealand finished sixth on the medal table with 10 gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze medals.
We counted 11 athletes at the games had links to the Good Local Media circulation area through family, or living and training in the area and eight spent time on the podium.
Emma Foy and pilot Jessie Hodges blitzed a strong field to win gold in the women’s tandem para pair time trial. Photo: The New Zealand Team
