{"id":477827,"date":"2026-06-15T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477827\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:06:08","slug":"gisbornes-maddie-wilson-named-in-nz-commonwealth-games-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477827\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisborne\u2019s Maddie Wilson named in NZ Commonwealth Games team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Heptathlete Maddie Wilson has joined Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews in the New Zealand team for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2. Photo \/Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Heptathlete Maddie Wilson has joined Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews in the New Zealand team for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2. Photo \/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Wilson set the New Zealand under-18 heptathlon record in 2018, which she still holds, won the national heptathlon title in 2024 and the long jump national title in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">At the 2026 New Zealand Combined Events Championships, Wilson set six personal bests to win the national title with 6059 points and surpass the Commonwealth Games qualifying standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Wilson, 24 and a civil engineering student at the University of Canterbury, is coached by James Sandiland, who won Coach of the Year at the 2026 Halberg Awards after guiding Kerr to Paris Olympic Games and 2025 world championship titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Wilson attended Central primary school and Gisborne Intermediate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">She was head prefect and Dux of Gisborne Girls\u2019 High School in 2019, won age group gold medals for Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club at the national champs, and played First XI football and netball during her time at the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Wilson\u2019s selection for the Glasgow Games follows that of Gisborne\u2019s Sydnee Andrews in the judo team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">It will be Wilson\u2019s first Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heptathlete Maddie Wilson has joined Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews in the New Zealand team for the Commonwealth Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27309,49638,16669,1558,51038,19345,6489,12506,89786,78,10005,54826,240573,13617,10136,111,43,139,69,7187,22974,6038,6040],"class_list":["post-477827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-added","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-been","tag-commonwealth","tag-field","tag-games","tag-gisborne","tag-gisbornes","tag-in","tag-list","tag-maddie","tag-multitalented","tag-name","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-team","tag-track","tag-wilson","tag-wilsons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477827","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=477827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}