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Open Water Swimming - News

15 February 2010

Ocean series a great hit in PE

Over 550 participants packed Hobie Beach for the ninth round of the Axxess DSL Ocean Racing Series in perfect beach conditions on Sunday morning. With the bulk of the participants taking part in either of the two swim events, it was an absolute magnificent promotion for Nelson Mandela Bay's bid to be Africa's water sport capital.

EP's top long distance open water swimmers, Frank Greeff and Jessica Roux, once again dominated the Crocs 3km swim while Chris van de Sande and Carmel Billson extended their overall leads in the SPAR 1km Ocean Swim, throwning down the gauntlet for what promises to be a very exciting and close tussle for the line honours at the 86th SPAR Redhouse River Mile in just under two weeks time.

Once again the kids turned out en-masse at the Ocean Racing Series to take part in the Beachfront Lodges 2km Nature Series beach run with all proceeds going towards Bay World. Kids were later entertained on the beach by Bay World staff who spoke about whales in Algoa Bay and brought with them some of their penguins for all to see.

The next race of the Series will take place in three weeks' time on Sunday, March 7 as the Series makes way for the annual SPAR Redhouse River Mile which takes place over the weekend of March 27-28 at Sundays River.

Results

CROCS 3km Ocean Swim

Men 1 Frank Greeff (32:34); 2 Michael Marais (33:22); 3 Wayne Jones (35:08); 4 Jack De kort (36:45); 5 Justin Ashworth (37:47); 6 Gareth De Vry (38:46); 7 Eldon Leonard (38:50); 8 Richard Majoor (38:59); 9 Rohan Greyvenstein (40:27); 10 Kurt Cain (40:31); 11 Richden Jute (42:10); 12 Ken Noble (42:15); 13 Kevin Grey (42:22); 14 Andre Kleynhans (42:24); 15 Elandre Swartz (42:27); 16 Eric Schultz (42:28); 17 Greg Tucker (42:54); 18 Greg Aubin (43:00); 19 Brenton Williams (43:11); 20 Allen Nicholson (43:49); 21 Ernest Ward (44:27); 22 Russell Tucker (44:54); 23 Calvin Zeelie (45:27); 24 Emile Van niekerk (46:49); 25 Mark Cooper (46:51); 26 Gary Kennedy (47:36); 27 Jurie Kotze (47:47); 28 Craig Dickson (47:48); 29 Carel Van niekerk (47:52); 30 Dan Howitz (47:54); 31 Graham Richards (48:00); 32 Steve De beer (48:52); 33 Andrew Grobler (48:58); 34 Christopher Paxton (49:25); 35 Kevin Warren (49:35); 36 Fanus Gerber (49:36); 37 Gary Schewitz (50:18); 38 Shaun Timm (50:39); 39 Hans Beuche (52:01); 40 Mark Alderman (52:24); 41 Brett Caudwell (52:28); 42 Chris Howes (52:29); 43 Chris Viljoen (53:06); 44 Carlo Dashwood (53:08); 45 Mark Huppelschoten (53:24); 46 Colin Mcall (53:32); 47 Shane Lynch (54:00); 48 Martin Muller (54:20); 49 Willie Kruger (54:29); 50 Matthew Norval (54:32); 51 Terry Thornton (54:38); 52 John Wall (54:43); 53 Martin Webber (54:46); 54 Wayne De lange (54:51); 55 Clinton Rock (54:57); 56 Neil Murray (55:27); 57 Richard Morley (55:45); 58 Charles Bataille (55:48); 59 Stanford Slabbert (56:39); 60 Charlie Hills (56:51); 61 Peter Schwartz (57:03); 62 John Karantges (57:39); 63 Trevor Wall (57:52); 64 Steven Schaefer (58:22); 65 Lorenzo Samuels (59:07); 66 Gordon Upton (59:30); 67 Stephen Moore (59:35); 68 Damien Giulietti (59:38); 69 Mike Pretorius (59:47); 70 Stan Liebenberg (59:51); 71 Graham Cox (01:00:12); 72 Paul Trzebiatowsky (01:00:33); 73 Michael Fowler (01:00:44); 74 Keith Reading (01:00:55); 75 Sifiso Xaba (01:01:41); 76 Andrew Van gruting (01:02:18); 77 Rob Ermes (01:02:24); 78 Gary Ward (01:02:38); 79 Nick Chapman (01:03:05); 80 Severius Janse van rensburg (01:06:36); 81 Willem Dafel (01:06:41); 82 Giles Hobson (01:06:51); 83 Luvuyo Ncanywa (01:06:53); 84 Jose Neves (01:07:21); 85 Ian Ferreira (01:07:26); 86 Luigi Ciarrocchi (01:10:50);

Ladies

1 Jessica Roux (36:48); 2 Rebecca Newman (37:56); 3 Chrislie Niehaus (38:18); 4 Tammy Geyer (40:40); 5 Sanmari Woithe (43:15); 6 Jeanine Lombard (47:44); 7 Ingrid Brown (49:02); 8 Adele Van de venter (49:04); 9 Lizette Owen (49:06); 10 Mary-anne Stott (49:44); 11 Ursula Davidson (51:59); 12 Elmarie Venter (52:30); 13 Michelle Enslin (52:38); 14 Elsa Craig (53:42); 15 Megan Gill (54:14); 16 Alrie Velleman (54:34); 17 Tracey Almirall (55:25); 18 Lesley Veltman (57:07); 19 Glenda lee Thomas (57:55); 20 Lynn Roche (57:57); 21 Fundiswa Mbande (59:14); 22 Karen Strydom (59:45); 23 Debbie Grey (01:00:59); 24 Paige Lee (01:02:00); 25 Paddy Cloete (01:02:29); 26 Helen Kernohan (01:02:44); 27 Deidre Bezuidenhout (01:07:04); 28 Trevlyn Lotz (01:07:56); 29 Carol Cooper (01:09:32); 30 Colleen Rees (01:14:06); 31 Mandy Moore (01:16:08);