The Pan Pacific Masters Games have arrived on the Gold Coast. They came in pairs, they came in groups, and some arrived on their own. Before long the queue for ‘Check In’ at the Pan Pacific Masters Games became a babble of happy laugher and excited chatter as hundreds of participants picked up their kits and accreditation ahead of 10 days of fun, friendly but fierce sporting competition.
More than 13,000 masters athletes will compete in 42 sports at venues spread across the city from November 4-13.
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Sandra Frizzell made the trek down the M1 from north Brisbane to join her team of softball mates and got chatting to Jennifer Smith from New Zealand who’s entered squash and athletics and hopes to better her four-gold medal haul from PPMG 2018.
Debbie Hamblyn headed to the Check in Centre just two hours after arriving from Cronulla, Sydney. A seasoned master’s athlete and a Pan Pac fan, 2022 will be her fifth games accompanied by husband Phil who takes on the role of scorer during the tournament.
Jennifer Smith (Running Squash) left, with Sandra Frizzell (Softball).
The Gold Coast event is the 12th edition of the Pan Pacific Masters Games.
Thousands of participants from around the country will converge on the Gold Coast to compete in Asia-Pacific’s biggest annual masters games.
This year’s list of sports includes:
- Archery
- Athletics (distance running, road race walk, track and field)
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beach volleyball
- Boxing
- Calisthenics
- Cricket – super 8s
- Diving
- Equestrian – dressage
- Fitness challenge
- Football, walking football and futsal
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Indoor netball, netball and walking netball
- Indoor rowing
- Lawn bowls
- Motorbikes – enduro and vinduro
- Paddling – dragon boat and outrigger canoe
- Pickleball
- Rugby league, rugby union and touch rugby
- Shooting – clay target
- Softball
- Squash
- Swimming and ocean swimming
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Ten pin bowling
- Volleyball
- Water polo.
