At a glance

Top 10 Manawatu sporting moments of 2016: 10=: Feilding High School 1st XV win the national co-ed title with a 25-5 win over Aorere College in the final in Palmerston North in September. 10=: The Palmerston North Boys’ High School basketball team finish second at the New Zealand secondary schools basketball championships after Rangitoto College sink a buzzer-beating, long-range three pointer on fulltime in Palmerston North in October. 9: Tim Wilkinson finishes tiedfourth at the Byron Nelson Classic in Texas on the PGA Tour in May after challenging the leaders for much of the final round. 8: Brendon Hartley, along with codrivers Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard, wins four rounds of the World Endurance Championship. 7: The Manawatu Turbos hand Canterbury their first loss of the season, 19-13, in Palmerston North in September. 6: Chris Pither takes his first pole position in the V8 Supercars for race one of the Ipswich Supersprint. 5: The Manawatu women’s sevens team win the National Sevens for the third time in four years in January. 4: Josef Schmidt coaches Ireland to an upset win over the All Blacks in Chicago in November, ending New Zealand’s 18-match winning streak. 3: Campbell Stewart becomes New Zealand’s most successful rider at the Junior World Track Championships after bagging his third and fourth golds along with a silver at the event in Switzerland in July. 2: Longstanding Black Sticks Emily Gaddum and Kyla Whitelock retire from international hockey as the top-two most-capped players in the team’s history. 1: Sarah Goss captains the New Zealand women’s sevens team to a silver medal at the Rio Olympics in August