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The fourth annual Village Square SUPERSPAR Pam Golding Quadrathlon that was held on November 5 from the small boat harbour on the St Francis Bay canals proved that this event is here to stay on the annual St Francis Sport calendar, as 170 participants braved a gale force wind of up to 55km per hour giving the organizers no chance to consider cancelling!
Athletes from Nico Malan High, Woodridge College and GLA as well as Stulting Primary, St Francis Bay College and Jeffreys Bay Primary brought their friends and families to see who can paddle, cycle, run and swim the fastest. It was also great to see village children forming teams with their friends from different schools. Individual entrees from all the local communities were received in the Open Categories with groups of friends having a tough but much enjoyable time braving the elements (and they are still friends!).
A group of under 10’s took part in a mini duathlon consisting of a run and cycle around the Big Time Circle. The boys race was won by Sine Sahke, followed by Mateo de Beer and Jamie Linsday and the tough girls were Molly Wilson as winner, with Saskia May and Jessica Brown in second and third place respectively.
As introduction to this multi sport, a shorter route of all four disciplines were completed by all under 12’s. They had to paddle 1km, cycle 5km, swim from bank to bank and run 2km. A group of very competitive under 12’s gave each other a tough time, with the first individual boy and boy’s team finishing together in only 56,10 minutes! Hendri du Toit was the first individual boy over the finish line, followed by Emile Wagener in second place. The boy’s team consisted of Cornelius Coetzer, Erhard Wagener, Kenan de Vos and Marco Venter. The first under 12 girls team finished in less than a minute behind the boys. They were Nicci Stewart, Emma Becker, Rosie Loots and Mothira Mohammed.
Second in the boys category was Michael Berry, Kai Allen, Simon Schwitter and Tom Dreyer who finished in 59,12 and a two man team, Marco and Brendon Pretorius won the bronze medals! The second girls team were Janke Steenkamp, Casey Adendorf, Kelly Masterson and Mienke Janse van Vuuren.
The under 12 Mixed Team winners were Toby Brown, Thomas Shaw, Jarrod Mienie and Ashley Taylor, with Mathew Carelse, Elze Cilliers, Tarryn Meyer and Rickert Coertzer in second place and Lucy Brown, Monique, Cailyn Ellis and Liam Dewer in third place.
The under 14, 16, 18 and open categories had to paddle 3km, cycle 12km, swim 600m and run 5km. Here some great competition were seen in the under 14 category. The individual boys category was won by Mark Howes in 1 hour 32,22 minutes, with Jamie Loots shortly behind him in 1 hour 35,52 minutes!
The Mixed under 14 winners were S Smith, R Lapersonne, R Lilford with Tiaan van Huyssteen, Manie du Toit, Marius du Toit and Peet Steenkamp second and Tyron Stewart, Jeff Brooker, Jenna Williams and Ashley in fourth place.
Under 16 individual boy winner was Andrew Fox in 1 hour 47 minutes. Under 16 boys winners were Seb Barratt, Dylan Lightfoot, Bruce Elliot and Daniel Chipps, second was D Edwards, K Russel and R Mosethe with Jamie Loots, Reece Peacock, Luke Bester and Oswin Browne in third place.
Under 16 mixed winners were by Roeltin Louw, Regard Viljoen, Anja Franzen and William Cele in a time of 1 hours 19 minutes with R Diephu, M McKenzie, I Rosen and N McDonald behind them and in third place were H Mzaiuma and Sam Pietersen, H Grieve, A Cronje and C Egan.
Under 18 boys individual winner was Grant Fox in 1 hour 33 minutes. The under 18 boys were won by T Leppan, K Spencer, G Whitehead and J Knight in 1 hour 25 minutes with A Jordaan, O Vorster, J Crewsden and J le Roux in second. Under 18 mixed winners were M Schultze, N Blake, S Bailey and M Smith with Jeannie Adendorf, Waldo van Huyssteen, Marzanne Viljoen and Ruan van Huyssteen in second place.
Individual Male winner was Bruce Campbell in 1 hour 9 minutes, followed by Roland Peacock and Grant Marais. Individual Ladies winner was Lindi le Roux in 1 hour 37 minutes.
The Open Men Team winners were Ricky and Morgan Campbell in a time of 1 hour 14 minutes with Phil and Nathan Honey in second place! Third was Jacques Steenkamp and Erhard Wagener.
Open Ladies team saw Liesje Steenkamp, Marthi Masterson, Sanet du Toit and Marinda Wagener as winners in 1 hour 29 minutes, with Bev Chipps, Rochelle Kindness, Nerine Botha and Chelsea Stocks the silver medal winners. Third was Candice Peltenburg, Kerry Clair and Lise Marie Goosen.
Open Mixed Team winners were Nigel Harvey, Richard Howes, Will Lee and Chantelle Howes with Gerrit Pietersen, Willem Mare, Liebie Meyer and Suretha Verwey, the Nico Malan Teachers, in second place. Third was Fransina Gous, Martin Diessner, Tracey Gous and Vanessa Lee.
The winners received gold, silver and bronze St Francis Sport medals respectively, and all participants received day medals, also from St Francis Sport.
A great thank you to the sponsors, Village Square Superspar and co-sponsor Pam Golding, the organisers Jo Brown and Michelle Shaw as well as St Francis Sport. They want to extend a big thank you to all who made this day a success, especially the but also the following people:
Daryll Green, Andre Koekemoer and Sean Beard for Village Square Superspar, Mike Tagg (photographer), Mel Mienie (registration), Chris Opperman (lead boat), NSRI (water safety), St Francis Tennis players who were the marshals, Kouga Traffic Officials, teachers from all the schools, Rob Smith for his Woodridge Life Saving Club who assisted all the swimmers and paddlers. Also the St Francis Links, especially Roland Peacock for the great cycling route, the St Francis Sport team for the online facilities and the medals. Also to Kingsley Dalton, Eric Stewart, and Howard Shaw (marshals), Peter Grobbelaar (Canal Warden), Alan Campbell (under 10′s duathlon), and Dr Jean Malan.
Disney Creche will benefit by having their buildings maintained to the amount of nearly R2000, as R10 per entrant being donated for this worthy cause. (The St Francis Bay MTB Challenge of November 27 profits will further add to this kitty).
Next year will be the fifth annual event, and sponsors and organisers are already talking about some improvements such as a musical show while waiting for the prize-giving, and marquee with more eats and drinks to stay open after the prize-giving (weather permitting!!!). Pam Golding offered a R1000 cash prize for the first local individual over 50 as well as for the school with the most entrees.
“It is a very tricky event to organise, with four different legs (paddle, cycle, swim, run), two different distances as well as the under 10′s duathlon. The prize-giving is also huge, with many age groups, plus teams and individuals, and within teams, girls/boys and mixed! All this was carried out smoothly by Jo and Michelle, a big thank you to them,” Richard Arderne said on behalf of the sponsors.
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