Some of South Africa’s top age group open water swimmers were in action this past weekend at Marina Martinique for Round 2 of the Swimming SA sanctioned EC Swim Series.
The hotter conditions probably got the better of Cape Town swimmers Rudolf Visser and Amy Barnes as they recorded slower 10km marathon swim times but were still well within the SA qualifying standard. Visser at 1hr 59min was a full minute slower than two weeks ago whilst Barnes in 2hrs 24min was some 5 minutes off the time set during that same race.
The top 3 finishers in the 5km swim were Cape Town’s Gadi Friedman in 1hr 6min, just 1 second ahead of PE’s Nicolas Adam with fellow Cape Townian Nicholas Campbell in 3rd place whilst JBay’s Michell Strydom won the ladies race in 1hr 15min.
The 1km swim saw George swimmer Sergio Manuel Dos Santos winning in a time of 12min 55sec from JBay’s MC Strydom and Humansdorp’s Alan Searle with PE swimmers Britney Brown (14min 58) and Tayla-Paige Lacey taking the top two medals in the ladies division ahead of Grahamstown swimmer Emma Podesta.Danre Du Preez and Ben Joubert grabbed the top two podium positions in the 1km wetsuit category.
In the very competitive 3km race there was a tie for first place between Port Elizabeth’s Slater Black and Cullen Biddulph in a time of 37min 58sec with George’s Sergio Manuel Dos Santos in 3rd place whilst in the ladies division it was Kirsten Marriott winning in a time of 38min 45sec ahead of Jessica Beukes and Cape Town swimmer Caylan Bromley. The wetsuit division was won by Katey Hofmeyer from Melanie Black whilst Stanford Slabbert won the 3km disabled category. In the social 500m swim it was Ruan Du Preez taking out the win from Chad Brown and Wayne Brown whilst Emma Lacey won the girls race from Elze Cilliers and Marany Jacobs.
This coming Sunday sees action return to Hobie Beach for Round 4 of the popular aQuellé Ocean Racing Series with 7 events on offer including a 5km Beach Run, 5km Beach Walk, Kids (12u) 1km Beach Run and a 400m, 1km, 2km & 3km Ocean Swim. See www.zsports.co.za for full results from Sunday’s EC Swim and to register for the aQuellé Ocean Racing Series.
SUMMARY RESULTS: EC Swim Series, Marina Martinique, Sunday 20th November, Round 3:
10km Swim
Male: 1 Rudolf Visser (1:59:02);
Female: 1 Amy Barnes (2:24:04);
5km Swim
Male: 1 Gadi Friedman (1:06:54); 2 Nicolas Adam (1:06:55); 3 Nicholas Campbell (1:09:21);
Female: 1 Michell Strydom (1:15:36);
1km Swim
Male: 1 Sérgio Manuel Dos Santos (12:55.7); 2 Mc Strydom (15:50.6); 3 Alan Searle (16:51.7); 4 Noah De Swardt (17:35.7); 5 Francis Searle (18:55.7); 6 Terence Adam (19:59.7); 7 Karel Otto Marais (20:19.6); 8 Marius Neethling (21:49.5); 9 Robert Leonard (29:47.5); 10 Brenton Williams (31:05.5);
Female: 1 Britney Brown (14:58.7); 2 Tayla-Paige Lacey (15:50.2); 3 Emma Podesta (15:56.6); 4 Adélia Dos Santos (17:31.8); 5 Ingrid Brown (18:43.1); 6 Anne De Swardt (21:04.5); 7 Abriella Bredell (21:48.2); 8 Isabelle Hofmeyer (22:56.6); 9 Issataga Bredell (31:02.3);
Wetsuit: 1 Danre Du Preez (15:55.3); 2 Ben Joubert (24:42.6);
3km Swim
Male: 1 Slater Black (37:58.2); 2 Cullen Biddulph (37:58.2); 3 Sérgio Manuel Dos Santos (38:10.2); 4 Flippie Van Der Spuy (38:16.7); 5 Cole Craig (38:38.7); 6 Adriaan Bouwer (40:26.7); 7 Seth De Swardt (40:26.9); 8 Chris Mowbray (41:06.5); 9 Nicholas Campbell (41:58.7); 10 Teagan Strydom (42:01.2); 11 Nicholas Adam (42:11.5); 12 Manuel Strydom (44:54.2); 13 Martin Wolmarans (45:01.9); 14 David Greener (45:07.0); 15 Heinrich Vorster (45:10.5); 16 Deacon Kingman (45:24.0); 17 Jc Van Wyk (45:25.7); 18 Stephan Vorster (45:33.5); 19 Ethan Harris (45:34.9); 20 Wietske Van Der Westhuizen (47:38.7); 21 Greg Hough (50:28.2); 22 Emil Hougaard (53:05.0); 23 Peter Marriott (54:13.7);
Female: 1 Kirsten Marriott (38:45.4); 2 Jessica Beukes (39:18.0); 3 Caylan Bromley (40:44.9); 4 Hannah Haswell (41:06.7); 5 Paige Black (41:09.0); 6 Jessica Booth (43:18.0); 7 Denise Bosman (44:45.0); 8 Hannah Counihan (45:01.5); 9 Chane De Jager (45:12.4); 10 Shaelyn Walker (45:55.0); 11 Keana Pearce (46:03.5); 12 Jenna Biddulph (47:42.2); 13 Tyra Rouzendaal (47:43.5); 14 Amy Swart (53:01.4); 15 Jenny Potts (53:34.0); 16 Katelyn Van Antwerp (54:23.4); 17 Elsa Craig (58:34.7);
3km Wetsuit Swim
1 Katey Hofmeyer (58:13.4); 2 Melanie Black (59:00.0);
3km Disabled: 1 Stanford Slabbert (56:10.2);
500m Swim
Male: 1 Ruan Du Preez (10:05.4); 2 Chad Brown (10:11.4); 3 Wayne Brown (11:00.9); 4 Daniel Jacobs (15:33.0); 5 Pierre Jacobs (15:33.3);
Female: 1 Emma Lacey (8:05.9); 2 Elze Cilliers (9:05.2); 3 Marany Jacobs (9:08.8); 4 Elize Fenwick (10:48.4); 5 Rebecca Haswell (10:57.4); 6 Hannalo Cilliers (11:05.9); 7 Emma Hofmeyr (12:15.4); 8 Katy Hofmeyer (12:19.4); 9 Xanéy Janse Van Rensburg (14:23.9);
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