Scratched: Aotearoa's Lost Sporting Legends

- Season 1

(2019)

In 1957 Ruia Morrison from Rotorua became the first New Zealand woman and first Maori to compete at Wimbledon, advancing to the quarter finals. But while the tennis world celebrates one of our greatest achievers, at home in New Zealand, Morrison remains largely unknown.

Anne Audain is the only New Zealand woman to win Commonwealth Gold on the track after a convincing win in the 3000m at the 1982 Brisbane games. Now in her sixties and still running every day, Audain shares her life story of surgeries, abuse, bans, dominance, and, finally, triumph.

From tennis champions to dance craze inventors, Scratched celebrates New Zealand sporting heroes who never got their due - but whose legacies deserve to be in lights. This episode, aerobics world champion and creator of Jump Jam, Brett Fairweather.

Chunli Li moved to New Zealand in 1987 to retire from table tennis, aged 25. Instead, she was asked to keep playing and represented New Zealand at four Olympic Games and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games won an unprecedented four medals, aged 40.

Born in 1947, Barbara Cox grew up learning that a woman's role was to cook and clean and take care of her husband. So when her husband signed her up to a local football team in 1973, Cox's life changed. With help from a few male administrators, and not much help from anyone else, Cox and her team mates worked to a top five world ranking, beating the US on the way. Cox represented New Zealand for over a decade, and went on to become the first woman to receive the top New Zealand football coaching certificate. New Zealand has come a long way in its treatment of female ...

In 1996, Joeli Vidiri was set to be the star of New Zealand rugby alongside his good friend Jonah Lomu. But deteriorating kidneys led to his early retirement from the sport, aged just 27. Today, Joeli works at a hardware store in Auckland and is grateful everyday for the kidney transplant he received in 2015.

Part II of Ruia Morrison's journey to recognition in Aotearoa. In 1957, the tennis legend was the first New Zealand woman and first Maori to compete at Wimbledon, advancing to the quarter finals. Six decades later, Morrison was honoured with a korowai (cloak) in her name at the Auckland 2020 ASB Classic, and Serena Williams wore it as tournament champion.