SA’s top open water swimmers, Troyden Prinsloo and Jessica Roux claimed top honours on Sunday afternoon at the 88th SPAR Redhouse River Mile held at Cannonville on the Sundays River.

A packed river bank watched as Roux’s superior experience ensured her first River Mile title as she took full advantage of the fast flowing current to remain in the middle of the river and win in a time of 14min 21secs from early race leader Jessica Liss. Megan van Wyk was third just 4 seconds behind Liss who for the second year running misjudged her last 150m of the swim, losing valuable time.

In the Men’s race, Olympic Swimmer Prinsloo was unchallenged as he completed the Mile swim in a fast time of 11min 56sec, some 40sec ahead of NMMU student Thomas Hansford, with Christopher Reid placing third overall just 3 seconds back.

In the first Mile events of the day, the Jones brothers claimed the top 3 slots in the wetsuit mile with Wayne winning in 15min 43 sec from Jason and Daniel whilst Rebecca Newman took the ladies’ title from Liza Bright and Kirstin Wessels.

In the Mile for swimmers with a disability, it was Paralympic Champion Kevin Paul who successfully defended his title from Charl Parkin and Stanford Slabbert whilst Ingrid Kingwill won the ladies’ category.

Full results from the River Mile are available on the website www.rivermile.co.za.

Scribante takes Discovery off-road

Eastern Province’s Silvio Scribante was the winner of Sunday’s Discovery off-road triathlon which took place at Sunday’s River. Nick Davidson placed second with George Smith third. In the ladies’ category it was Gail Willimott who took the gold medal from Kerry Longhurst and Chrislie Niehaus.

Junior George Smith was the first under-18 participant home followed by Bernadus Coetzee and Jean-Pierre van der Merwe.

Earlier in the day a 5km trail run was held with Michael Kingston and Lisa Bright taking the line honours, whilst Bennie Killian won the junior age group category.

Full results from the triathlon and trail run are available on the website www.rivermile.co.za

ORS Sunday morning

The next round of the Weekend Post Ocean Racing Series takes place on Sunday morning at 9am on Hobie Beach. The Series is open to all fun runners, walkers, open water swimmers and kids under the age of 12 years who would like to take part in a 1km beach run/walk.

See www.oceanracingseries.com for further information.