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28.12.08 Sydney to Hobart 2008

Wild Oats X1 wins 4th consecutive line honours in Sydney to Hobart after an epic battle of the Tasman Sea with arch rival maxi Skandia. Both yachts were locked in a match race to the end as they steamed down the south coast of NSW on boxing day evening and into Bass Straight on Saturday 27th. In the end it was the Bob Oatley owned 30m maxi who prevailed finishing with an elapsed time of 1 day 20 hours 34 minutes and 14 seconds.
Skandia had surprised with its boat speed to keep up with the highly fancied Wild Oats, and it was not until the winds died late on the Saturday evening that her valiant effort was thwarted with Wild Oats extending a comfortable winning margin.

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29.11.08 Rugby League Players Awards

RLPA Awards Night


Rugby League Players finished off their season with the RLPA awards night in Sydney Saturday 29th November where Melbourne Storm and Australian fullback Billy Slater won the prestigious Golden Boot award as the worlds best player.
The event was organised by Wingman and sponsored by Red Bull. Photo Steve Cuff

05.08.08 Skiing Epic At Thredbo 2008

Snow lovers have been spoiled with some sensational weekly storms that have deleivered huge amounts of snow in 2008 so far. Besides some great powder days and deep snow, the snow has stayed in excellent condition and has been great top to bottom skiing at Australias Thredbo resort. With more snow on the way this coming weekend, the season is set to be great right up until the end of September.
Photo. Australian Downhill racer Craig Branch takes some time away from training to rip up some Thredbo powder. Photo by Steve Cuff

05.08.08 Australian & New Zealand Skiing Magazine

Catch all the latest snow news and reviews in this years edition of ANZ Skiing. We test heaps of skis, travel stories from around the globe and the big pics in our local gallery. On sale now at your newsagent.

What skis should you be buying?
Where should you travel to for the best snow in the world?
Where should you go heli skiing?
Its all in the magazine.....

22.11.07 Canada Non Stop

Skiers and travellers to Canada will welcome the new Air Canada non stop flights from Sydney to Vancouver starting mid December. You can now shave 3 hours off your trip and avoid the nasty stop over in Honolulu where you were wasting a few hours just getting off and back on the plane.
Now you can arrive in less time and be on the famous Canadian ski slopes much quicker than ever before. With the massive Whistler resort just a few hours from Vancouver, you will be cruising the slopes before you know it.

For the adventurous and advanced skiers looking to challenge themselves on some steep terrain, sign up for the 2 day program at Extremely Canadian. One day on each of Blackcomb and Whistler Mtns skiing steep double black runs with experienced guides who are expert skiers. Depending on your skiing level you are matched with people of similar ability and shown some of the best terrian the resort has to offer.

19.05.07 Australian & New Zealand Skiing Magazine

The latest edition of Australian & New Zealand Skiing Magazine is now on the news stands with action packed photos and sesnational stories form across the globe. Avalanches, Club Med in France and a big powder showdonw between Utah and Hokkaido.
Pick up a copy now and get yourself pumped up for the snow season just around the corner.

23.02.07 Skiing in Kashmir

Good Weekend Magazine had a story and photos on Gulmarg in the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald on April 21st. Photos and Gulmarg update to come here soon about the adventures you can find in a war torn part of the world that offers exciting and also dangerous backcountry terrain to ski, Steve Cuff

23.02.07 Australian Sports Awards

The cream of Australian Sport gathered in Melbourne on Wednesday 22nd February for a gala evening to see who would be crowned the best in their chosen sports for 2006. Sports Photographics Australia have all awards photos available on our website for media and personal sales. Go to the Gallery or recent covered events and click on the Australian Sports Awards to view the pics.

If your sport requires photographers for any awards or presentation nights please contact us with all the details for a quote on the event.

03.01.07 Big Year Ahead with Sports Events

Sports Photographics Australia are pleased to announce that they have been appointed as the official photographers for two of the biggest sporting events on the Australian calendar during 2007. The World Police and Fire Games and the Australasian Masters Games will both be staged in the city of churches, Adelaide South Australia this coming year.

World Police and Fire Games March 16-25 2007 The 2007WPFG will attract up to 8000 participants from Australia and around the globe where they will descend on Adelaide to test their skills in a variety of over 75 sports during an exciting 10 days of competition. Participants from the Police Forces, Fire Services, Ambulance services and other emergency and corrective services will pit their skills against each other on the world stage.

Australasian Masters Games October 5-14 2007 The masters games have extended their arm this time around to include all of Australasia which could result in even bigger numbers than 2005's 10000 plus people who converged on Adelaide for the last event. The competition will be hot again among the regular participants who attend each event and compete in over 65 different sports during their ten days of action packed competition.
Sports Photographics Australia photographers will be capturing all the action at both these events with photos available for sale at the games centre photo booths and also here on our website. Keep posted for further news as these events approach.

27.12.06 Yachts run into trouble

The start to the Sydney to Hobart Race was a spectacular event on Sydney Harbour under blue skies. The bigger boats charged to the heads and a majority of the smaller boats raised their spinakers for the run down the harbour. However the conditions changed during the night and Maximus (pictured) and ABN Amro would lose their masts. Maximus had a number of crew airlifted to hospital after the mast came crashing down on the cockpit at about 3.30am in rough seas.

19.12.06 Sydney to Hobart

One of the biggest sporting events in Australia each year is without doubt the Sydney to Hoabrt Yacht race starting on Boxing Day on Sydney Harbour. Steve Cuff will be shooting pics of the start of the race for ”Inside Sport” Magazine

14.12.06 YAP Macarthur Golf Classic

Photos are now available from the Macarthur Golf Classic held on 11th and 12th December. We have images from the Pro Am including group photos, plus action shots from both days.
Hope you all had a great day on the golf course.

11.12.06 French Alps Skiing - Opening Day La Plagne

Skiing Club Med style in the French Alps of La Plagne 2100. Opening day was greeted with boot deep fresh snow and only about 100 people skiing of 2 lifts. Needless to say there was enough fresh snow for all to be had even though Europe was having a lean start to their winter.

30.11.06 Cancelled - World Cup Skiing Europe

These events have now been cancelled.
Photographer Steve Cuff will be attending the 1st 2007 World Cup Freestyle Mogul event in Tignes France on December 14th and then following up with the 1st 2007 World Cup Skier X race in Kresichberg Austria. The Skier X event will be the 1st World Cup event after the news this week that Skier X is now an official Winter Olympic discipline and will make its debut in Vancouver 2010. Australia's only World Cup Skier X competitor Jenny Owens will be competing in her 2nd season of the sport after previously being the top ranked alpine racer for Australia and competing at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics in 2002.
The Mogul event will see reigning Olympic Champion Dale Begg-Smith start the defence of his overall World Cup title in the resort of Tignes in the French Alps. Other Australians to compete in the moguls will be Nick Fisher, Michael Robertson and Ramone Cooper. Media outlets requiring images from these events should email now for passwords to our media scetion for high resolution images. office@sportsphotographics.com.au

20.11.06 Aussie Golfers in Royal Sydney Shootout

The cream of Australian Golf were involved in a good old fashioned gun slinging shootout at Royal Sydney Golf Club last week with John Senden clinching victory in the Australian Open with two spectacular birdies on the final two holes to outshoot reigning US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy. Going down the stretch the leader board chopped and changed as the players battled it out to the finish. Half way throught the back nine it was still anyones guess as to who would become the champion for 2006 until John Senden rifled two magnificent iron shots to the par 3 17th, and then again to the par 4 18th in front of a packed crowd that had gathered around the final green. Holing a putt from around a metre on the final hole was enough the hold the trophy aloft with a score of -8 under. Geoff Ogilvy would run second by a shot and Stuart Appleby and Gavin Coles a further shot back in 3rd place.