{"id":177237,"date":"2025-12-10T13:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:03:13","slug":"havelock-north-pool-draws-650-people-for-z-manu-world-champs-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177237\/","title":{"rendered":"Havelock North pool draws 650 people for Z Manu World Champs qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was great to see new talent coming through \u2013 including a few athletes who improved on their ranking from last year \u2013 and it was really positive to work again with the Hastings District Council to bring this event to life\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Mayor Wendy Schollum said the day captured the spirit of a Hastings summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSaturday\u2019s Manu Champs highlighted everything our community loves about our wonderful summers: great weather, great energy, and a community that turns out to support our own,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Male junior division winner Ibrahim Eyles, of Flaxmere, with manu judge and Hastings District councillor Heather Te Au Skipworth (left) and Hastings Mayor Wendy Schollum. Photo \/ Paul Taylor\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Male junior division winner Ibrahim Eyles, of Flaxmere, with manu judge and Hastings District councillor Heather Te Au Skipworth (left) and Hastings Mayor Wendy Schollum. Photo \/ Paul Taylor<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">One standout was Javan Pahau, who won both the Adult Manu division and the \u201cAnything but a Manu\u201d category. Pahau narrowly missed last year\u2019s finals and returned after a shoulder injury kept him out of the water for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am stoked. That was my first bomb of the season, and I can\u2019t wait to get to the Grand Final in Auckland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Tauranga will host the final qualifier of 2025 on Saturday  before the series resumes in January, including a first-ever Gold Coast event. <\/p>\n<p>Hastings 2025 results<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Junior Division \u2013 Male<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">1st: Ibrahim Eyles<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">2nd: Zhyris Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">3rd: Aunahi Watene<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Youth Division \u2013 Male<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">1st: Huntah Heke<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">2nd: Issac Tuifeai<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">3rd: Honiana Tarau<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Youth Division \u2013 Female (Manu)<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">1st: Jahnaya Eyles<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Adults \u2013 Manu<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">1st: Javan Pahau<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">2nd: Tys Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">3rd: Petera Kahui<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Freestyle \u2013 Female<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Winner: Sharn Heenan<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Anything but a Manu Division \u2013 Open<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">1st: Javan Pahau<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">2nd: Isaac Tuifeia<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">3rd: Petera Kahui<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was great to see new talent coming through \u2013 including a few athletes who improved on their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101128,18430,18983,2082,47034,48955,111,43,139,529,69,384,5198,108842,377],"class_list":["post-177237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-101128","tag-champs","tag-draws","tag-for","tag-havelock","tag-manu","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-pool","tag-qualifier","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}