The 75th Anniversary of Olympic-style Wrestling in New Zealand is to be hosted by the Counties-Hunua Wrestling Club in August 2005.

Counties-Hunua is the club that has the largest number of female wrestlers out of all clubs in New Zealand a very successful club too with six New Zealand title holders amongst them. In the days when I wrestled, we would be lucky to have two females at the Nationals and they trained with the boys and the men. Last year seventeen females competed at the Nationals and four weight categories for females made it to the Olympics for the first time. The results from last years Nationals in Dunedin were:

2004 NATIONALS AT DUNEDIN

Seventeen females competed at the 2004 Nationals in Dunedin. The results were:

12-13yrs

1st Courtney Myers – Alton – 44kg

1st Jessica Todd – Combat Sport – 48kg
2nd Courtney Myers – Alton
3rd Jessica Repia – Counties-Hunua

1st Josephine Faavae – Counties-Hunua – 52kg
2nd Tanya Mahutoto – Counties-Hunua

1st Jasmine Howard – Counties-Hunua – 57kg

1st Sharmayne Kairau – Counties-Hunua – 57-62kg
2nd Jasmine Howard – Counties-Hunua

1st Holly Gardner-Walker – Counties-Hunua – 62+kg
2nd Rose Gardner Walker – Counties-Hunua

14-16yrs

1st Alisha Natrass – Counties-Hunua – 49kg

1st Briar Brown – Counties-Hunua – 52kg
2nd Megan Candler – Counties-Hunua
3rd Alisha Natrass – Counties-Hunua

1st Georgina Neil – Alton – 56kg

1st Heidi Erdle – Rangiora – 60kg
2nd Georgina Neil – Alton

Junior

1st Heidi Erdle – Rangiora – 59kg

1st Hiroe Suzuki – Browns Bay – 67-72kg

Senior

1st Jodeen MacGregor – Sth Canterbury – 67-72kg

1st Hiroe Suzuki – Browns Bay – 72+kg
2nd Jodeen MacGregor – Sth Canterbury

Back, left to right: Holly Gardener-Walker, Sharmayne Kairan, Mega Chadler, Briar Brown, Jasmie Howard

Middle: Laura Martin, Bonnie Addlington, Sonni Lee, Tanya Mahutoto

Front: Josephine Faavae, Rose Gardener-Walker, Jessica Repia