National success for the Wanganui McIntyre family has extended into road walking with the double gold medal success of Deryn Anne Northcott at the 18th ACC Thinksafe New Zealand Masters Games in Wanganui.
Northcott, wife of an Okato (Taranaki) farmer, is the daughter of former hockey international Neville McIntyre and brother of hockey Olympic gold medalist Allan McIntyre (Wellington).
53-year-old Northcott was fastest woman in the Games' 10km women's walk and followed that up with second fastest time in the 5km walk (29m 39s) to win her age grade in a time just 16sec slower than Wanganui's 44-year-old Gai-Marie Smart.
Northcott also won a bronze medal in women's tennis, a sport where her father and brother were once Wanganui champions.
Smart (29.13), Northcott (29.39) and Napier's 51-year-old Robyn Galloway (30.27) were the fastest 4km walkers. Levin's Colin Horne, aged 48, was the quickest male walker with a time of 28m 31s followed by Wanganui's 56-year-old Peter Green (28.55) and Napier's David Reid, 67 (30.15).
There were 352 walkers in the 5km, with only Horne and Green returning faster times than Smart and Northcott.
Fastest running time was 17m 36s from Wanganui's Don Humphrey, aged 50, with David Dixon (Stoke ? 44) clocking 17.38 and Mark Cornago (Wanganui ? 38), 18.11.
Former local runner John Whelan, 50, from Indooroopilly, Queensland, was fourth quickest in 18m 50s but again had to settle for a silver medal in his age group, 14sec down on fastest event runner Humphrey.
Whelan had been third fastest over 10km and was beaten for the gold medal in his grade by fastest runner Paul Foster (Raumati).
Fastest 5km women's run came from Fiona Gilroy (Christchurch), aged 38, with a time of 20min with Sally Gibbs (Katikati ? 43) 20sec slower and Christine Suffolk, 36, from New South Wales third quickest (20.33).
After winning his 55-59 division 10km walk title, 1974 Commonwealth Games 5000m running champion Dick Tayor (Christchurch) had to be content with a silver medal over 5km, beaten by 4m 5s by Wanganui's Peter Green.
GOLF
Visiting golfers Ron Daley Jnr (The Dunes ? Australia) and John Dudson (Cambridge) carded the best gross rounds of 158 to win their age grades in the under-50 golf tournament at Santoft.
Third best 36-hole score was 159 by Rick Harding (Wanganui) who also won a gold medal.
Best women's round came from Karen Manninen (Manawatu) with 169.
Waverley's Wiremu Kauika had the best net score of 134 with Leon Ashby (Tawhero) on 141 and Rick Norman (Waverley) on 142, also gold medal winners.
Sharon Jensen (Marton) 142 and Gillian O'Kane (Castlecliff) 152 took the women's net titles.
In the stableford Grant Osman (Castlecliff), 77 pts, and M Rainford (Castlecliff), 75 pts, were the top scorers to win their divisions. Ngaire Hunter (Levin) 68pts and Anlie Steyberg (Castlecliff) 61 pts won the women's stableford.
MOTOCROSS
Seven riders from Taranaki to Auckland completed double success on the two days of motocross.
There was a Taranaki clean sweep in the women's racing where Karen Thompson, 28, from Bell Block took gold with two victories ahead of Angela Nicholson and Yvonne Ewens.
Andy Galpin (Marton) aged 46, gained double success in the 0-250cc grade as did Wayne Neilson (Waverley ? 32) plus Wanganui riders Hamish McDougal, 38, and Terry Casserly, 55, in the over 251cc division.
In the ATV's, Aaron Jurgens (Wanganui), 34, and Aucklander Doug Barnett, 42, each won two gold medals.
EUCHRE
The 67-year-old Wanganui husband and wife combination, Lance and Frances Oliphant, outsmarted the opposition to take the gold medals in the euchre pairs tournament.
They came from sixth place after the first round to record an excellent tournament high of 26 pts in the second round for a total 44 to head off Feilding's Doreen Broadbent, 75, and Pat Shapeliski, 73, by a clear seven points.
Wanganui combinations Jim Collins and Anne McGinty and Robert Puklowski and Tony Holden also finished with 37 pts to each win bronze medals.
Luck was out for first round leaders on 22 pts, Bernice Newland and Don McLeod (Wanganui), who could only muster 14 in the second round and drifted to fifth place.
TENNIS
The Victorian A grade husband and wife pair of Steve Anear 62 and Joy, 61, from Mt Gambier, each claimed gold medals.
Steve won the 60 and over men's doubles with local Guy Gifford and was runner-up to Lower Hutt's Tony Rutledge in the singles.
His wife beat Pam Wray (NP) in the women's singles final.
Hamilton's Tia Ormsby-Vanselm, 41, picked up two titles in her age group with a win over her champion doubles partner Denyse Graham in the singles final.
Michael Fleming (New Plymouth), also 41, scored double success with a win over Grant Gopperth (Manaia) in an all-Taranaki final and he also won the doubles with Steve Harvey (NP).
Other singles titles went to Rachel Webster (Wanganui), Kay Wynn (Rotorua), Brian Dickie (Dannevirke), Max Morrison (Christchurch) and Kevin Reiher (Tauranga).
KLAVAJAS
The four Games titles in the Dutch card game were shared around amongst Wanganui players in a field of 16 competitors.
Henk Hagenaars, 75, won the title in the Amsterdam rules version of the game and silver in the Rotterdam rules. Ria Konign, 63, achieved the same success in the women's events. The Rotterdam gold medals went to Johanna van der Ley, 73, and Joe Schipper, 74.
Oldest entrant, 77-year-old Derek Wheel, Stratford, won bronze in the Rotterdam contest.
ROAD CYCLING
Winning the opening stage set Napier's Bruce Galloway, 52, up for a narrow victory over Marcel Hollenstein (Tokoroa), 46, on the Games' three-day road cycle tour.
Galloway, who like Hollenstein rode with the main bunch after winning the opening stage, led the tour for the first two stages, lost the lead to Hollenstein, and then regained it for the final two stages.
Wanganui's Pat Johnstone, 52, claimed the overall third place ahead of Bruce Roberts (Auckland), 44, Kevin Strongman (Gisborne), 37, and Peter Kane (Wellington), 68.
First woman on general classification was Jocelyn Hood (Taupo), 55, who was 47th in a field of 50 finishers. Age grade gold medals went to Galloway, Hollerstein, Roberts, Strongman, Peter Dickinson (Wellington ? 57), Peter Cox (NP ? 60), Bob Wilson (NP ? 60), oldest starter Garry Humpherson (Wellington ? 70), Kerrie Cole (Wellington ? 38) and Hood.
New Plymouth riders won both road criterium races. Peter Cox, 60, headed off fellow 60-year-old Kevin McCombe (Whakatane) and former national six-day champion Neil Robinson (Gisborne ? 65) to win the opening race over 20 minutes plus three laps.
Jeremy Cottam (NP ? 35), one of the two youngest starters, took line honours in the longer race of 30 minutes plus three laps with Noel Ashcroft (NP ? 50) and Grant Wilson (NP ? 39) completing a Taranaki trifecta.
McIntyres add road walking to list of achievements
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