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Lake Hawea to host stone skimming champs

Otago Daily Times Online News·Monday, 11 May 2026·22 days ago
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New Zealand's best stone skimmers will have the chance to show off their talents on the shores of Wānaka's Lake Hāwea on Saturday. Organiser of the Aotearoa Stone Skimming Championship Richie Laming said the lake was a perfect spot for the event at 400m deep with some "lovely Otago stones just made for skimming". Laming said money raised by the event would be going to Melanoma NZ. "Everyone can remember their best skim, but they can't always remember their distance," Lamming said, encouraging everyone to come down and give it a go in the open male and female championships. He said cheating was not a worry for the event as following a cheating scandal at the world stone skimming champs in 2025, a robust anit-cheating framework had been put in place. "Competitors on the day will select their stones from the shores of Lake Hāwea under the scrutinising eye of 'Taskforce Skim' marshals.…

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