Wellington - Sport

Sport

Wellington is the home to:

  • The Hurricanes – Super Rugby team representing the Lower North Island, primarily based in Wellington
  • Wellington Lions – ITM Cup rugby team
  • Wellington Phoenix FC – football (soccer) club playing in the Australasian A-League, the only fully professional football club in New Zealand
  • Team Wellington – Wellington's club in the semi-professional New Zealand Football Championship
  • Central Pulse – netball team representing the Lower North Island in the ANZ Championship, primarily based in Wellington
  • Wellington Firebirds and Wellington Blaze – men's and women's cricket teams
  • Wellington Saints – basketball team competing in New Zealand's National Basketball League

Sporting events hosted in Wellington include:

  • six pool games and two quarter-final games at the 2011 Rugby World Cup
  • the Wellington Sevens – a round of the IRB Sevens World Series held at the Westpac Stadium over several days every February. This rugby sevens tournament contributes around $6 million to the local economy each year
  • the 2011 Tae Kwon Do World Champs
  • the World Mountain Running Championships in 2005
  • the Wellington 500 street race for touring cars, between 1985 and 1996
  • the McEvedy Shield – annual athletics meet for college students from Rongotai College, St Patrick's College (Silverstream), St Patrick's College (Wellington), and Wellington College

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Famous quotes containing the word sport:

    “If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
    —Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)