A blustery onshore wind kicked up swell on the second day of the two-day carnival, testing the nearly-1000 competitors who turned up the Coromandel beach. It was the Mount Maunganui Lifeguard Service athletes who handled it best, easing to a comprehensive 49-point win in the overall point standings ahead of Red Beach and Papamoa Surf Life Saving Club, with Mounts George Haynes leading proceedings with a slick open ironman win over teammate Andrew Newton. Former New Zealand representatives Michael Buck and Ayla Dunlop-Barrett showed their wares as the waves came up, however. Dunlop-Barrett took out the open womens run-swim-run from Papamoas Natalie Peat, while Buck powered away in the final leg of the open mens taplin to help give his Mairangi Bay team victory. Read the full story and results here:
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:27:46 +0000
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