10 Apr 2025

NZ Sporting History: Tuariki Delamere

From Afternoons, 2:30 pm on 10 April 2025

For today's sporting history we're going back to 1974. A fleeting moment - less than 11 seconds - when track & field bumped into gymnastics.

A splash of magic happened and a boy from Papakura came inches away from revolutionising the long jump.

That boy was Tuariki Delamere. And that magic was the Delamere flip.

A short lived - and quickly banned - long jump technique. It involved doing a summersault mid jump.

Tuariki joins Jesse to talk through his amazing career.