21 Jan 2013

Plenty of medals for young Olympic Festival athletes

5:58 am on 21 January 2013

The New Zealand team will return from the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney with 69 medals.

The 11 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze medals were won in the 5-day competition which included 1700 athletes from 30 countries.

The New Zealand team rounded off their campaign yesterday with 15 medals from rowing, wrestling, cycling, golf and swimming.