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Former triple Paralympian archer and renowned bowmaker Arthur Fisk died at the Macquarie Care Centre on March 6.
Mr Fisk competed in Paralympic Games at Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992 and Sydney in 2000.
He also competed several times at the World Wheelchair Games in England.
Mr Fisk made the move into bowmaking after the 2000 Olympics, and was widely recognised as one of the best craftsmen in Australia.
Blow-for-blow Saturday night’s charity boxing bout at the Dudley Hotel was so close that a re-match has been sought.
Oberon man Dave Sellers lined up against Sydney’s Daniel Parkinson for the NSW Cruiserweight Champion main event, in a match that many thought Sellers had won.
Match promoter Nathan Swadling said many in the crowd thought the bout had been won by the Oberon resident and footballer.
The Bathurst Bulldogs have scored 39 second half points to complete one of the best Blowes Clothing Cup comebacks in history, knocking Orange City out of the 2016 title race.
Down 27-0 at half-time and then 34-12 during the second period at Ashwood Park, the hosts clawed their way back to 34-all, Kurt Weekes’ penalty goal right on full-time sending the elimination semi-final into extra-time.
The first five minutes went scoreless, before Izaac Breen left his mark on the match with a barnstorming run, line-break and then offload to old All Saints schoolmate Adam Plummer, the flying Bulldogs winger icing the memorable win for the Bathurst club.
When the drivers' entry list for the inaugural Bathurst 6 Hour was released today there were plenty of names which are well know by motor sport fans, but one which did not appear was V8 Supercars star Chaz Mostert.
In what is a massive a coup for the Production Touring Car race, Ford star and 2014 Bathurst 1000 winner Mostert will join Nathan Morcom in a BMW 335i E92.
"Nathan Morcom and I have been friends for a lot of years, we used to race with each other in support categories and I have actually driven this car before, in 2011 we did a six hour at Eastern Creek," Mostert said.
Two Bathurst women had strong local support when they stepped into the ring for the Dreamtime Sports Academy’s final fight night on Saturday.
A good crowd supported the fight night at Bathurst Showground and were treated to 13 hard-fought contests, including three title bouts.
But it was the performance of local women Sam Mulley and Ruby Troncoso that really excited promoter Nathan Swadling and got the crowd to their feet.
Several of Australia’s best boxers will come to Bathurst to help officially open the new location for the Dreamtime Sports Academy.
The gym, which specialises in boxing training, is a partnership between Nathan Swadling and Luke Bennett that has been run out of Mr Swadling’s home for the past 18 months.
Due to the increasing popularity of the sport, the team has had to find a bigger location to house the gym.
Less than a week ago, the Western Advocate reported on Ben Mitchell smashing an incredible 221 for St Pat’s Old Boys Blue, setting what is believed to be a President’s Cup record in the process.
It would be an amazing achievement for anyone, let alone a 14-year-old.
The Advocate said it was a record that, given the grade’s age restrictions and requirements, might never be broken – but Mitchell had a go on Saturday, clobbering a second straight double-hundred and falling not far from his previous mark.
This time he saved the punishment for someone other than his clubmates, having made his 221 against St Pat’s Old Boys Gold.
The Bathurst District Cricket Association has been the scene of a number of remarkable individual efforts with the willow in recent years, but maybe, when you weigh up all the factors, Ben Mitchell’s on Saturday was the most impressive of all.
At just 14 years of age, he smashed 221 in a senior game, and set a record that might never be broken in the President’s Cup grade given some of the regulations of the competition.
Opening the batting for St Pat’s Old Boys Blue on Saturday against their clubmates St Pat’s Old Boys Gold at Jack Arrow Oval, Mitchell was simply unstoppable.
A rider is in Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital with serious spinal injuries following a crash at Bathurst’s new Olympic-class BMX track.
The rider, from Orange, was taking part in an evening coaching session last week when the incident occurred.
Described as a freak accident by Bathurst BMX Club president Michael Breen, the incident has shocked the wider BMX community.
IT took a lot of culling and chopping and changing but the Western Advocate Sports Awards nominees have been announced for 2016.
It might sound clichéd but it seems to get harder and harder each year to squeeze just five appropriate candidates into each category, and like always it is a good indicator of the quality of sporting performances to look at the people who haven't made it on the list as much as those who have.
With so much happening in Bathurst in the world of sport, there are endless combinations to go with - in almost every popular sport there seems to be a glut of good performers at local, state and national level.