Cheers and splashers in coast mile swim

Kerrin Heydorn and Shaun Marshall race each other to the finish

Chris Bosman leads the pack out of the water

Liani Morkel pushes hard to keep her lead

The fastest female on the day - Vinette Roux

Trish Hodgson

THE City of uMhlathuze and the Zululand Multi Sport Club hosted yet another successful Fish Eagle Coast Mile Swim on Saturday at the club grounds.
Athletes from as far as Durban arrived to compete in one of our City’s major events on the swimming calendar while enjoying calm weather and flat seas.
The senior mile event had spectators on the edge of their seats while Mel Lawrence and Vinette Roux challenged each other neck-to-neck around the two-lap course.
Mel won it for the men in a time of 21 minutes and 18 seconds, closely followed by Vinette who did it for the women in 21 minutes and 27 seconds.
The City has, over the past four years, had a development programme running in the eSikhawini area.
The fruits of this programme were seen on Saturday as spectators witnessed 35 of these young swimmers finishing the mile course in fine style.
The Assistant Director of Junior Sport - Bheki Gumbe of the Provincial Department of Sport made mention that he was impressed to see so many swimmers of colour participating at this level.
With a good turnout of spectators and fantastic weather conditions, a great day’s racing was had by all.
 

Results
1.6km
Juniors
8-9 years (female)
1 Angelique Kotze - 40.40
10-11 years (female)
1 Leoné Anderson - 29.47
10-11 years (male)
1 Matthew Clark - 28.57
12-13 years (female)
1 Kirsty Davidson - 24.20
12-13 years (male)
1 Christopher Clark - 25.05
14-15 years (female)
1 Rize-Mari van Niekerk - 22.55
14-15 years (female)
1 Raymond Schuin - 22.36
Seniors
16-17 years (female)
1 Vinette Roux - 21.27
16-17 years (male)
1 Jacques van Jaarsveld - 23.05
18-19 years (female)
1 Kelly de Charmoy - 29.40
18-19 years (male)
1 Mel Lawrence - 21.18
25-29 years (female)
1 Doné Kruger - 26.55
25-29 years (male)
1 Jubilee van Jaarsveld - 27.30
35-39 years (female)
1 Dominique Donner - 23.11
35-39 years (male)
1 Corné Meier - 30.30
40-44 years (female)
1 Louise Hughes - 30.43
40-44 years (male)
1 Shakes Hiraman - 35.41
45-49 years (female)
1 Glenda Badenhorst - 31.19
45-49 years (male)
1 Bernard Dalton - 27.17
50-54 years (female)
1 Bronwen Griffiths - 34.02
50-54 years (male)
1 Mike Oberholzer - 25.24
55-59 years (female)
1 Barbara Berridge - 34.30
55-59 years (male)
Jose de Charmoy - 29.52

750m
Juniors
8-9 years (female)
1 Carla du Plessis - 21.47
8-9 years (male)
1 Zethembe Mthiyane 18.18
10-11 years (female)
1 Erica Blendulf - 18.42
12-13 years (female)
1 Stephanie Hughes - 16.49
12-13 years (male)
1 Nkosiyazi Ndebe - 18.34
14-15 years (female)
1 Syabonga Biyela - 19.44.