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Canterbury Handball followed last year’s indoor handball success by winning both the men’s and women’s category of this year’s NZ Beach Handball Club Championship. Last year, Canterbury Quakes won both men’s and women’s Handball League Aotearoa and the men’s title of the 2024 NZ Club Championship. They started this year with Canterbury Pekapeka winning both men’s and women’s titles in beach handball.

Canterbury Pekapeka dominated the women’s championship winning all their games and the finals. The men’s tournament was a tighter affair. On the first day, Pekepeka men lost both their matches against Barad-dûr Beach Bros. Barad-dûr Beach Bros won all their matches on the first day. But they could not replicate it on the second day.

2025 Beach Handball Club championship Winners

2025 Beach Handball Club Men’s Championship - Canterbury Pekapeka

**Ollly Donaldson (Charrots)**

Top Scorer and Most Valuable Attacker

**Cameron Ross (Charrots) and Jeremy Clarke (Charrots)**

Most Valuable Defender

**Jack Gallagher (Charrots) and Alex Brown (BBB)**

Best Goalkeeper

2025 Beach Handball Club WOMen’s Championship - Canterbury Pekapeka

**Jaclyn Parker (Pekapeka)**

Most Valuable Attacker

**Rowan Moloughney (Pekapeka) and Mae Bartlett (Pekapeka)**

Most Valuable Defender

**Julia Singhal (Pekapeka)**

Best Goalkeeper

That concludes the New Zealand Beach Handball season. Good luck to the teams and players going over to the Australian Beach Club Championship starting 3rd of April 2025.

This year’s national club championship was the biggest ever! There were 17 teams and 240 players that congregated in Wellington for the tournament. It was great to see 5 teams from Australia join the New Zealand teams in this celebration of handball.

The success of the tournament is due to the huge effort of Tournament Director Billie Gruschow, her team from Wellington Handball and the referees coordinated by Antoine Desnos, Gaston Fuso and Ezer Handelsman. Special thanks to the tournament photographer Aaron Bell, covering the entire championship and providing fantastic images of the games.

We would like to thank all the teams for making the tournament a success. And we hope to see you again next year.

We would also like to acknowledge the sponsors and supporters of the tournament - Wellington City Council, Goethe Institut Neuseeland, Brentwood Hotel, Trinity Group, Maori Arts Gallery and Ākau Tangi Sports Centre.