# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Drugs, Diversity & Gender: Professor David Gerrard on Sports' Big Issues
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 04:30 am – Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 am
- **Event Description**: ARVIDA QUEENSTOWN COUNTRY CLUB FREE SPEAKER SERIES - PROFESSOR DAVID GERRARD

Join us at Arvida Queenstown Country Club for our free Speaker Series event, where Professor David Gerrard will talk about the big issues in sports: drugs, diversity and gender.


Wednesday 11 March, 2:30pm.
Arvida Queenstown Country Club, 420 Frankton-Ladies Mile Highway, Queenstown, 


With a sports medicine career spanning more than six decades, Professor David Gerrard is an Emeritus Professor at Otago Medical School, an Olympic swimmer, team doctor, former New Zealand Chef de Mission and Medical Commissioner at 12 Olympic Games, including Paris 2024. He is also an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.

David will share insights from his remarkable sporting journey and academic career, exploring drugs in sport - how athletes beat the system and how they get caught - neurodiversity in sport, and why the sex binary exists in competition. His experience as a guest speaker on these topics brings a wealth of knowledge and a passion for active living. 

While you’re here, take a look around our community, you may be surprised by what you discover.


Bookings are essential – secure your free spot today.

For more information, contact Hilary or Clare on 03 777 4080 or visit https://www.arvida.co.nz/retirement-villages/otago/queenstown-country-club
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Queenstown
- **state**: OT
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 420 Frankton-Ladies Mile Hwy, Lake Hayes, Queenstown 9371, New Zealand
- **lat**: -45.00137
- **long**: 168.77864
- **full address**: 420 Frankton-Ladies Mile Hwy, Lake Hayes, Queenstown 9371, New Zealand, 420 Frankton-Ladies Mile Hwy, Lake Hayes, Queenstown 9371, New Zealand, Queenstown

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- **organizer**: Arvida Living Well Communities (https://allevents.in/org/arvida-living-well-communities/24518116)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 04:30 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 420 Frankton-Ladies Mile Hwy, Lake Hayes, Queenstown 9371, New Zealand, 420 Frankton-Ladies Mile Hwy, Lake Hayes, Queenstown 9371, New Zealand, Queenstown
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Arvida Living Well Communities
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** sports, contests, food-drinks
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