Local Sport
No better way to celebrate Australia Day
While it may not be everyone’s idea of how to celebrate Australia Day, 24 locals started their day off last Thursday by completing a triathlon. The Cobar Athletics and Triathlon Squad (CATS) coordinated a senior triathlon as part of this year’s Australia Day activities which attracted 12 individual competitors and […]
Many worthy nominees for Australia Day sports awards
Local clay target shooters Robert Thompson and Scott Brydon were named as joint winners of this year’s Australia Day Sportsperson of the Year award. Swimmer Makaila Gordon won the Kerrigundi Award and Ben Trudgett was awarded the Services to Sport trophy. Cobar’s Australia Day event coordinator John Martin said it’s […]
Cobar’s best riders recognised at club presentations
The Auto Club of Cobar held their Presentation Night and annual general meeting at the Empire Hotel on Saturday where the 2016 Club Champions were celebrated. The Overall Champion of 2016 was Joel Mawhinney and the winner of the Craig “Gadget” Peaty Open MX Memorial Trophy was […]
Yabbies’ weekly swims continue
While many local sports are currently taking a break, the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club weekly swims have been continuing. The championships points have been shared around over the past few weeks with no one swimmer dominating the competition. In the first swim of the year on January 3, […]
CATS kick off the new year with two broken records
Two records were broken at the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s (CATS) first event of the year on January 15. Bourke competitor Tammy Watson set a new time for the club’s long course completing the 500m swim, 20km cycle and 4km run circuit in a quick time of 1hr 12min […]
Cobar was well represented at Dubbo New Year Carnival
A group of 11 athletes from the Cobar Athletics Club competed at the 40th annual Dubbo New Year Athletics Carnival at Barden Park on January 6, 7 and 8. The group competed in various track and field disciplines in their age divisions. Hannah Kriz won all four of her Under […]
Swimmers bring home medals and cash
A contingent of eight junior swimmers from the Cobar Swimming Club were a part of the big group of 160 competitors at the Nyngan Swimming Carnival on Sunday. The Cobar group had a good day in the pool and returned home with a swag of medals and a heap of […]
Fugar bags the bulk of Yabbies’ points
Former Yabbies point score club champion Bill Fugar, who has been relatively quiet this season, placed in all four events of last week’s Senior Men’s Swimming Club competition. Fugar won the 100 metres and brace relay events and also finished third in both the 30m and 50m handicap events to […]