A new home for The Sports Hall of Fame

The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame exhibition in Dunedin is now closed while we prepare for an exciting move north. Later this year the exhibition will re-open inside the Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge, marking the start of an exciting new chapter for visitors and fans
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Our Inductees

Phil Skoglund

Phil Skoglund
One of New Zealand’s alltime greatest lawn bowlers, Skoglund might have been bred to bowl.
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Elsie Wilkie

It can’t be the lot of many women in New Zealand sport who first become a world champion when they’re a grandmother.
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Cis Winstanley

Cis Winstanley took up bowls in 1946 to help her recover from surgery and she became New Zealand’s most successful woman bowler.
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Bob Skelton

Sporting Spotlight

Bob Skelton

(1934 - )

During a career crammed with honours, Bob Skelton rode 2129 winners. His first two-mile winner was Lancaster in the 1954 Great Autumn Handicap and 30 years later, he was still among the leading jockeys.
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