Welcome to the official web page of the New Zealand Gold Panning Champs.
Click here to enter on line now, or just turn up to Old Cromwell Town (map) on the 30th October 2011 at 9am with cash to enter.
New to Gold Panning sports? basically you are racing everyone else in your heat to be the first to retrieve all 5-12 flakes of gold that have been pre counted and added to your bucket of gravel.
Win your heat and move onto the next round… overall winner gets $1000 to go towards travel to Australia to compete at their Gold Panning Champs. There are many other prizes on offer for the category winners also including local resort accommodation for 2, Milford Sound trips, bottles of famous Central Otago wines…
Championship Categories include: Open (anyone), Ladies, Men’s, Veteran (over 60 yrs) (Bring your own regulation conforming pan).
New Zealand Classic: Open to anyone (must use our ‘traditional’ pans).
YOU MAY ENTER TWO CHAMPIONSHIP CATEGORIES AND THE NZ CLASSIC.
Non Championship: Under 13 (boys and girls) and Have-A-Go (first timers and beginners only)
Teams Event: (3 people per team, any age, male or female).
Gold Panning is one of the few sports where men and women and a wide variety of ages can compete in the same category (open, above). Last year the open champion getting $1000 towards her trip to compete in Australia was Queenstown teenager Amelia Gatward-Ferguson. See here for the full story.
Want to know more? Post a question below or contact us directly. Click here to download the official rules.
Physical address: The Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust
Cnr of Erris and Donegal Streets, Cromwell, Central Otago
PO Box 91 Cromwell 9342
Phone: (03) 445-0111
Email, please click here
