{"id":354341,"date":"2026-03-29T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:16:07","slug":"maadi-cup-results-kings-college-claim-first-title-since-1960-at-twizel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354341\/","title":{"rendered":"Maadi Cup results: King\u2019s College claim first title since 1960 at Twizel"},"content":{"rendered":"

They carried the favourites tag into the final and their crew of Marcus McLeod, Jack Reid, Patrick Sandlant, Josh Haskell, Charlie Field, Finn Thompson, Jake Peacocke, Sammy Taylor and Ayden Miller (cox) did that justice with a display that will become part of King\u2019s College folklore.<\/p>\n

\"King'sKing’s College, 2026 Maadi Cup Champions at Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel. The cup was presented by King’s old boys and previous Maadi Cup winners Murray MacDonald (1959) and Alistair Dryden (1960). Photo \/ Conrad Blind – Picture Show Ltd<\/p>\n

Two of the school\u2019s old boys presented them with the trophy – Alistair Dryden from the last winning crew in 1960 and Murray MacDonald from the winning 1959 crew.<\/p>\n

The winning boat was also named after Peter Masfen, who was a member of the winning crew in 1959.<\/p>\n

After waiting 66 years to reclaim the most famous trophy in New Zealand secondary school rowing, King\u2019s could be in a position to defend it in 2027. Their second boat also qualified for the A-final, providing invaluable experience for their younger rowers. Seven of the nine boys in their winning boat had tasted big race experience the previous year.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll have to contend with returning crews from St Bede\u2019s and Christchurch Boys\u2019 High School, among others \u2013 but for the next 12 months at least, Maadi is all theirs.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Bucket Hat brigade – King’s College crews celebrate as 2026 Maadi Cup Champions at Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel. Photo \/ Conrad Blind – Picture Show Ltd<\/p>\n

Waikato Diocesan School for Girls made it a North Island double for the first time since 2014, claiming the Levin 75th Jubilee Cup ahead of pre-race favourites Rangi Ruru Girls\u2019 School and defending champions St Margaret\u2019s College of Christchurch.<\/p>\n

It was a closer race than the Maadi Cup, but Waikato Diocesan were in control for much of the regatta\u2019s final race on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe champion Waikato Diocesan crew throw their cox Kiri Ormsby into Lake Ruataniwha. Photo \/ Conrad Blind – Picture Show Ltd<\/p>\n

Amy Bryant, Pippa Melville, Lucy Turnbull, Kate Slyfield, Victoria Melville, Keava Burrough, Ryan Woods, Alexandra Hull and Kiri Ormsby (cox) will return the Levin 75th Jubilee Cup to their school for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n

The win in the U18+ event capped an incredible regatta for the Waikato girls\u2019 school, which claimed the Star Trophy for best-performed school overall.<\/p>\n

Waikato Diocesan will also take hometown advantage into the 2027 event that returns to Lake Karapiro.<\/p>\n

\"LevinLevin 75th Jubilee Cup and Star Trophy champions – Waikato Diocesan School for Girls. Photo \/ Conrad Blind – Picture Show Ltd<\/p>\n

Mike Thorpe<\/a> is a senior multimedia journalist for the Herald, based in Christchurch. He has been a broadcast journalist across television and radio for 20 years and joined the Herald in August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They carried the favourites tag into the final and their crew of Marcus McLeod, Jack Reid, Patrick Sandlant,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[187398,1975,1647,31100,2741,12784,10542,17173,1888,27981,85519,172418,111,139,69,5909,38404,4062,2242,7811,213,2044,2563,25628],"class_list":["post-354341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-187398","tag-at","tag-breaking","tag-champions","tag-claim","tag-college","tag-cup","tag-droughts","tag-first","tag-kings","tag-longest","tag-maadi","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-results","tag-rowing","tag-school","tag-secondary","tag-since","tag-sports","tag-time","tag-title","tag-twizel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354341","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=354341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}