NATIONAL EVENTS

SPORTS SCHOOL
January 19-23, 2008
Venue - Auckland
Focus is on youth, but all ages welcome. For competitive athletes wishing to progress their sporting careers.
A multi-sport school for IBSA and Paralympic sports.
This may be your chance for the next IBSA Youth and World Championship teams.

Athletics and swimming the main sports with judo, powerlifting, tenpin, football and goalball.

Register your interest!
email: sports@blindsport.org.nz
or phone (09) 275 1635

SOUTHERN CROSS GAMES
NEXT SCHEDULED FOR AUSTRALIA in 2008.
Venue - TBA
For all blind and vision impaired students still attending an educational institution from around the Pacific/Oceania region.

These games provide a unique opportunity for travel, forming friendships and enjoying new experiences, and lead to further opportunities in sport.

Check out the web page for the last games. email: sports@blindsport.org.nz

GOALBALL
New Zealand Championships scheduled for Labour Weekend, 2007 in Christchurch.
Contact - Paul Barclay ph: (03) 374 9925 (evenings) or email: pbarclay@clear.net.nz or Dennis Wells ph: (03) 980 0066 or email goalball@paradise.net.nz

2008 National Championships will be held over Labour Weekend. Venue to be Auckland or the Hawkes Bay.

HOCKEY
Round Robin Tournament - 11 October, 2003.
Gate 3, Browns Road, Manurewa (Homai National School for the Blind)

Annual General Meeting - 2 May, 2004, 12.00pm Clubrooms, Homai National School for the Blind, Manurewa.
Gate 3, Browns Road, MANUREWA
Contact - Florence Selby ph 09 277 6012
email: blind hockey

INDOOR BOWLS
National Tournament
Wanganui, Labour Weekend, October, 2007
Annual General Meeting - 19 October 2007.
Contact - Phyllis Fox ph 09 827 4250
email: blind indoor bowls

2008 National Tournament will be in Invercargill.

2009 National Tournament will be in Auckland.

LAWN BOWLS
National Championships
Laird Park City Bowling Club, Wanganui
29 November - 3 December, 2004.
Contact - Helen Stallard ph 09 521 1047
email: blind lawn bowls

SAILING
National Championships
RNZYS Westhaven, Summer 2002 - 2003
Annual General Meeting - RNZYS, Auckland, November 2002.
Contact - Don Mason ph 09 479 3349
email: blind sailing

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

2007

IBSA WORLD YOUTH and STUDENT CHAMPIONSHIPS
Colorado Springs, USA
11-17 July, 2007.
Multi-Sport event including Athletics, Goalball, Judo, Powerlifting and Swimming.
Age limits - over 13 and under 19 as at 31 December 2007.
Candidates must be financial members of BSNZ and hold a valid sight grading certificate.
email: sports@blindsport.org.nz

IBSA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Sao Paulo, Brazil
July 28 - August 8, 2007
Sports - athletics, 5-side football, goalball, judo, powerlifting, swimming
Athletes who meet the qualifying standards
Contact - BSNZ (09) 275 1635
email: sports@blindsport.org.nz

IBSA WORLD TENPIN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2-11 November, 2007.
This is the 3rd IBSA Tenpin Bowling Championships held.
Age is no barrier to representing your country. Ask Dorothy McCulloch from Invercargill.
She will be joined by two youngsters (relatively speaking) - Ross Fulton (Blockhouse Bay) and Andrew Law from Henderson. The team will be managed by Peter Fulton.
email: sports@blindsport.org.nz

2008

Beijing PARALYMPIC GAMES
September, 2008.

TRANS TASMAN GOALBALL SERIES
Melbourne, Australia
Date to be confirmed.

2009

8th IBSA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Next General Assembly scheduled for 2009.
venue to be Tunisia or Turkey

WORLD BLIND SAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Rotorua, New Zealand
March 2009.

IBSA ASIA-OCEANIA TENPIN REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Chinese Taipei
Date/s to be confirmed.

IBBA WORLD BLIND LAWN BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Melbourne, Australia.
Date to be confirmed.