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Freewheel

Thanks to the Schaare family, we now have a Freewheel Clip on that attaches to the footplate of a wheelchair. This allows you to easily cross rough ground that would otherwise prove difficult. It lifts your castors over the ground and rides on the large wheel to provide a comfortable and stable ride, easily riding over gravel, grass and dirt.

If you are interested in borrowing this, let me know 😄

Make sure you watch Devon on Sunday on YouTube 🤩

Rylee smashing it out of the water with a gold and bronze … followed by a silver in 50m freestyle!!! 🥇🥈🥉

A fantastic night in the pool on day two of the Fuji-Shizuoka Para Swimming World Series in Japan, with our New Zealand team collecting five medals across the open and youth categories. How good?! 👏🚀

Open medals
🥈Silver – Jess Johnstone (St Peter's) – women's 100m breaststroke
🥉Bronze – Cameron Leslie (Whangarei) – men's 50m backstroke

Youth medals
🥇Gold – Rylee Sayer (Hamilton Aquatics) – women's 400m freestyle
🥇Gold – Jess Johnstone (St Peter's) – women's 100m breaststroke
🥉Bronze – Rylee Sayer (Hamilton Aquatics) – women's 100m breaststroke

Paralympics New Zealand High Performance Sport New Zealand Swimming Auckland Swimming Northland Swimming Waikato

Our wheelchair rugby team in action on the weekend. Go Waikato Stampede!

Way to go Waikato ❤💛🖤
Huge congratulations to our Parafed Waikato boccia players who were champions at the Tauranga Regional Boccia Championships at the weekend. We had 5 players attend from the Waikato. It was also Jhias 1st tournament and she did amazing!!!.
A BIG shout out to Parafed Bay of Plenty for hosting such an awesome event at the HealthVision Festival of Disability Sport.
results as follows.

BC2/4/5/6/7 combined
1st: Vishal Chandra (BC2) Waikato
2nd: Karen Callander (BC7) Waikato
3rd: Maurice Toon (BC2) Waikato

BC3
1st: Troy Robertson, Northland
2nd: Greig Jackson, Manawatu
3rd: Georjah Cooper, Auckland

You can review the action from the following links;
Saturday; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHs9U24fERw
Sunday; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHs9U24fERw

Parafed Bay of Plenty Boccia New Zealand

Roll on 2027 Halberg Games !!! Heres some lovely feedback from our families.
Halberg Foundation CCS Disability Action

Legion of Rowers North Island Champ’s regatta this weekend at Karapiro

Well done to Naomi & Pita who both rowed in the masters - Naomi won 3 gold medals and 1x silver medal & Pita won 4 silver medals.
They also won this trophy 😁 here they are with their coach Dylan Swain from the Cambridge Rowing Club.
Cambridge Rowing Club New Zealand NZ Rowing High Performance Centre

Halberg Games Prize Giving 2026

Our Halberg Games team got together today to celebrate the success of our amazing team as well as some special athletes. We were incredibly lucky to have the BEST families & athletes that showed all the other regions in NZ the meaning of team spirit!!!
We had 9 athletes who attended the Halberg Games this year for the first time which was very cool.
Thanks to our board members who turned up to support this event - Tiff, Clare, Caelan, Al & Peter.
It was nice to acknowledge some amazing people who made the Games such a success:
Our staff - Glyn, Caelan & Katie;
Our team captain Asher;
Our 3 athletes who received awards at the Halberg Games - Te Hoka who received the Waikato MVP; Tamahau who received the Most promising athlete & Rylee who received the Spirit of the Games Female athlete.
Congrats to the following athletes who received trophies today as follows:
Best Supporter of the 2026 Halberg Games - Sophie
Sports Excellence of the 2026 Halberg Games - Tamahau
Personality of the 2026 Halberg Games - Suzie
Most Improved Athlete of the 2026 Halberg Games - Daena
Best Attitude of the 2026 Halberg Games - Daniel
Magic moment of the 2026 Halberg Games - Te Hoka
Scally Wag Award - Asher & Katie
Sport New Zealand Sport Waikato Halberg Foundation Halberg Games

Congrats to Naomi & Pita who won the trophies for the most improved male and female scullers at the Cambridge Rowing Club prizegiving last night 🏆
Look what can happen from a ‘Have a Go’ day!!!!
Cambridge Rowing Club New Zealand NZ Rowing High Performance Centre