​Aon Maadi Cup: By the Numbers

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The 2016 Aon Maadi Cup (New Zealand Secondary School Rowing Championships) is all next week on  Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel.
Here are some facts and figures ahead of this year’s Maadi Cup regatta:
1 - The Aon Maadi Cup is the largest secondary schools sports event in New Zealand and one of the largest regattas in the Southern Hemisphere.
6 – The number of days the regatta runs for. It starts on Monday 4 April and concludes on Saturday 9 April.
120 – The number of secondary schools from across New Zealand lining up at the regatta. 
2253 – The total number of athletes at Maadi Cup made up of 2145 competitors entered and 108 reserves.
52 – The number of events on offer throughout the regatta
1495 – The total number of crews entered throughout the regatta
63 – The number of crews competing in the Girls U16 Double Scull – making that the event with the largest entries
60 – The number of entries in the Boys U17 Single skull, not far behind! 
4 – The number of age group categories - U15, U16, U17 and U18 – in a range of boat classes including singles, pairs, doubles, fours, quads, eights and octuples.
8 – The Boys’ and Girls’ U18 Eights will be competing for the prestigious Maadi Cup and Levin Jubilee Cup silverware.
3 – The number of Maadi Cup titles that Hamilton Boys’ High School has won consecutively. After winning in 2013, 2014 and 2015 will they win again in 2016?
69 – The number of boys’ Maadi Cup regattas there has been. The first was in 1947 and won by Auckland’s Mount Albert Grammar School.
11 The number of times a South Island school has won the Maadi Cup trophy. North Island schools have won 58, with Wanganui Collegiate winning 17 of these, but not since 2004.
7 – South Island schools have been successful in winning the Levin Jubilee Cup, in seven of the last 10 years between them. St Margaret’s College has won three of the past four and Rangi Ruru Girls’ School won four in a row between 2007-10. 
12- The number of wins achieved by Wanganui Collegiate teacher Peter Irvine as a coach.

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