{"id":4151,"date":"2025-09-05T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/4151\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:17:07","slug":"new-zealand-sports-stacking-championships-is-back-in-whanganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/4151\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Sports Stacking Championships is back in Whanganui"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whanganui is the home of Speed Stacks (NZ) – the sole officially licensed distributor of endorsed speed stacking equipment in New Zealand. <\/p>\n

The city has hosted many stacking championships<\/a> before, including the recent Master\u2019s Championship in February.<\/p>\n

Karyn Slade has been involved in organising speed stacking events along with fellow tournament director Ian Kerr for 17 years. <\/p>\n

They have worked together to grow the mostly grassroots sport in New Zealand through local schools. <\/p>\n

The sport offers an opportunity to work on hand-eye coordination, teamwork, good sportsmanship and is something they can \u201cchannel themselves into\u201d, said Slade.<\/p>\n

The championship will feature three individual events, two doubles events, and one relay event. The competition will be divided into novice and experienced categories.<\/p>\n

There are almost 40 registered competitors, ranging in age from nine to 70-plus. <\/p>\n

Several competitors are going for New Zealand records, while athletes competing under Fiji and India are aiming for records in their home countries.<\/p>\n

Trophies will be awarded to the top three athletes overall, the top three males and females in each event, and a sportsmanship trophy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about positivity and giving everyone a high five at the end,\u201c Slade said. <\/p>\n

Stackers will compete in various categories and events at St Mary\u2019s School Hall this Saturday between 8.30am and 4pm on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whanganui is the home of Speed Stacks (NZ) – the sole officially licensed distributor of endorsed speed stacking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,1863,5759,187,78,185,117,111,43,139,69,2022,213,5758,1961,4767,1883,80],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-back","tag-championships","tag-hosting","tag-in","tag-is","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-stacking","tag-this","tag-weekend","tag-whanganui","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","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=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}