2025 Matariki King & Queen of the Mountain

Since we started running our King and Queen of the Mountain race on Matariki Friday, it has grown every year as an event and as a celebration of our community - athletes, volunteers, young and old - all coming together to run our maunga.

A few highlights of race day this year:

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️Lots of entrants - more than ever.Thank you all for coming and running.

📻 A promo on the Radio NZ Matariki show!

🏔️ A new start line on Ernie Pinches Street which meant that ... yes... the race started appropriately uphill.

👯 More tamariki than ever haring down the mountain for the 2.5k race.

🍲Pumpkin, Turkish corba and leeky vegetable soup goodness in the club rooms.

📸An amazing photography performance from Terence Ng. He had video, stills and a bike to follow the action. He even got some aerial footage too! You can see his handiwork here.

🍸Samples of Rokeby smoothies in the clubrooms after. Thank you Ange :)

🪙Lots raised to support our rising stars and send them to competitions. Thank you all. Podium

5k King of the Mountain

1st Jack Sneddon (16:55)

2nd Nick Moore

3rd Jacob Hewitt

5k Queen of the Mountain

1st Eryn Westlake (18:13)

2nd Laura Fernandez

3rd Isabella Sneddon

5k U18 Men

1st Henry Hills

2nd Harrison Skewes

3rd Andrew Mexted

5k U18 Women

1st Ayawa Satome

2nd Annika Vashi

3rd Josie Hua

5k U14 Boys

1st Josh Parkinson

2nd Revanth Kishore

5k U14 Girls

1st Isabella Sneddon

2nd Grace Parkinson

2.5k Tamariki race - boys

1st Ollie Cheetham

2nd Aiden Jarrod

3rd Liam Rimmer

2.5k Tamariki race - girls

1st Lilia Kluts

2nd Grace Vashi

3rd Clara Kingston