14 Jun '17: ATC NEWS

 

Results – 70.3 Durban – Knysna Fires – TSA Team Selections

What happened in the Southern and Eastern Cape with the devastating fires ravaging through the area and towns is beyond belief.  Described by Marsel Roos, who lives in Knysna, and Tryon Ingle, who collected donations from Edgemead and drove it through to Knysna on the weekend, as something we would only expect to see in a movie.

 

Whilst the effects of this on the Best 10 Days of Our Winter obviously pales into insignificance compared to what the people of Knysna are dealing with, we are happy to report that the  Knysna Oyster Festival and most of the sporting events will go ahead as planned.  We urge members not to make rash decisions about entries and accommodation already booked for this area.  Knysna and surrounds will need the economic injection that the festival brings now more than ever, as they rebuild the town.

 

Our condolences to family and friends of Nezaam Isaacs, a member of the Itheko running club.  Nezaam was killed in a hit-and-run accident last Tuesday, 6 June, in Belvedere Road, Rondebosch.  We got to know Nezaam last year when he was training for the 2016 ITU Triathlon with close friend and running companion, Ashraf Orrie. 

Atlantic Triathlon Club is currently leading Division II in the overall TriClub standings Worldwide!  We are also leading the special competition, started this year, for the most number of first-time participants at an Ironman event.  We would like to thank all the members who signed up with Ironman TriClub under ATC.  If you have not signed up for the TriClub yet, please visit the link below and select Atlantic Triathlon Club under your Athlete Profile.

 

We will publish an updated list of point earners after Ironman 70.3 Durban.  If you are not sure if you are registered, please reply to this email to enquire.

 

Congratulations to Kevin Flanagan and Geri Wessels, who got engaged on the weekend.

 

This was New Balance’s third Comrades as technical sponsor.  As part of the build-up to the event, New Balance created the #myfutureself campaign, which looked at what’s instore on race day, sacrifices made by Comrades entrants, their values, convictions and experience.  New Balance invited runners to write a letter to their future self and tell that person who they want to be and how to prepare for the final 87 Km lap.  Caitlin Wolstenholme (9:38) was one of the runners selected to be an ambassador for the campaign.  We are not sure what Caitlin wrote to herself in that letter but we can tell you that she improved her Comrades time by over an hour from her last up run!

 

Congratulations to all the ATC’ers who finished the Ultimate Human Race!  All the ATC Running members’ results are further down in this email.  If you ran for another club and is also a member of ATC, please let us know and we will add your result to the on-line results page.  Special congratulations to Bill Rowan medal earners:  Brett Nattrass (08:21), Marié Wessels (08:35), Dominic Boyle (08:45), Nic De Beer (KPMG, 08:48) and Oliver Davies (08:55).

 

Ashleigh Hansen  (09:02) was already in the finish venue when the Bill Rowan cut-off gun went off and narrowly missed this medal.

 

Miguel Netto (09:08:41) became the first athlete to do the Unogwaja Challenge for three years in a row.  This being Miguel’s 3^rd Comrades, he has never travelled to Comrades by any means other than his bicycle.  Piet Viljoen also did the Unogwaja Challenge this year and completed the run in a very respectable 10:23.

You can read more about Miguel’s hat trick in the latest Modern Athlete Magazine.

 

At the SA Masters National Track & Fields Championships, held at the Green Point Athletics Track in May, Esri Loock-Bezuidenhout got a Silver in the 800 metres, whilst husband Roger Bezuidenhout got a bronze.

 

Congratulations to the following members who were selected into the TSA National Team to compete at the various 2017 World Championship events:

 

2017 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final, taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from 14 till 17 September:

Richard Murray, Vicky Van Der Merwe, Michelle Krebs, Rohan Meyer, Nolan Murray Steele, Marthinus Kemp, Henry Wolstenholme and John Van Onselen. 

 

2017 ITU Multisport World Championships, taking place in Penticon, Canada, from 18 till 27 August 2017:

Duathlon Worlds (10 – 40 - 5):  Samuel Courts and Nolan Steele.

Long Distance Triathlon (3 – 120 – 30):  Anton Du Plessis.

Cross Triathlon Worlds (1.5 - 31 - 8):  Samuel Courts, Richard Murray, Vicky Van Der Merwe, Hayley Preen, Andre Brand, Douglas Burger, Michelle Krebs, Brenton Ashby, Chris Visser, Gary Thomas, Alexander Krebs and Ryk Lochner.

 

Congratulations to the following members, who were selected to represent WP Triathlon at the 2017 SA Duathlon and LD Duathlon Championships, taking place on the 2^nd of July 2017, at the Midmar Resort:

A-J Spieringshoek, Brenton Ashby, Nolan Steele, Dawn Clarke and Rohan Kennedy (LD).

 

This year the 20 Km Trail challenge was run from Hout Bay on the 3^rd of June.  Jarryd Dunn was second overall with Rory Schaefer in 3^rd. Under the ladies, Hayle Preen was third.

 

Dunya Ansems was the 2^nd lady in the Extreme 38 Km with Caitlin Van Den Berg second in the Veteran category and Jeannine Ruffels the 3^rd Master Lady.

Neill Hermann won the Master category in the JMC 24 Km Lite event.

Damian Will was 3^rd overall in the JMC 10 Km Run.

Richard Murray won the first event in the German Bundesliga Triathlon of 2017, held in Kraichgau on Saturday.

 

Last weekend Richard did his first 70.3 distance event, at the Challenge Family’s Championship, held in Samorin, Slovakia.  Richard came 5^th overall and posted these splits:  Swim:  22:51 T1: 2:55 Bike: 2:06 (Just under 43 Km/h) T2: 2:48 Run: 1:15 (3:37 / km) – Total: 3:50:22.

 

At the Hermanus Extreme Triathlon, held in April, Vicky Van Der Merwe was second in the ladies event.

 

David Jones, with Rohan Kennedy as his guide, won the PTvi category at the African Continental Para-Triathlon Championships, held on the 6^th of May.  They are currently training for two upcoming ITU Para-Triathlon World Cup events.

 

Dawn Clarke won her age category at Ironman 70.3 Vietnam and single-handedly raced ATC into second position in the TriClub Division II competition.  Well done Dawn!

 

At the Lighthouse to Big Bay Swim, 10.5 Km, Zac Ellis was the overall winner in a time of 2:20.  Abigail and Rebecca Meder won the Relay event in 2:12.

 

At the VWS Trail Challenge, held on 14 May, Caitlin Van Den Berg was the second vet (4th lady) home in the 20 Km event.

 

At the Dirtopia Change of Season 11 Km Trail Run, held on 28 May, Ben Campbell was 3^rd overall and Angelique Edwards was the 3^rd Subvet Lady home.

SWIM:  Please note that there will be NO Canal Swim on Saturday afternoon as most of us will be in Durban for 70.3.  Instead, we will swim on the Ironman 70.3 Swim course, at UShaka Beach, on Saturday morning at 08:00. 

 

BIKE:  On Thursday morning, we will ride from the Point Virgin Active at 05:30.

 

RUN:  Track will be at the Green Point Athletics Track, on Tuesday at 06:00 and on Wednesday at 18:00.

 

There is no training scheduled for this weekend due to Ironman 70.3 in Durban.

Good luck to the almost 150 ATC and Embark Triathletes doing Ironman 70.3 on Sunday!  The exodus starts on Tuesday morning, at 06:00, when bikes will be dropped off at GPCC for transport to Durban.  We will once again take the ATC and Embark Gazebos through and find a spot along the run route to set up for race day.  Later in the week, we will let everyone know where your supporters can find the gazebos.

 

ATC Members heading for Ironman 70.3 are listed further down in this email.

 

This weekend is also Ironman 70.3 in Pescara, Italy.  Good luck to Jon-Luca Del Fante and Morne Theron who will be representing there.

 

This weekend is the annual Napier Patatfees, which includes Mountain Bike events on Saturday and Trial and Road runs on Sunday.  There is also the Indi-Atlantic Family Tri Camp happening in Cape Agulhas, which will offer accommodation, vehicle support, open water swim training and other facilities to compliment the Patatfees events.  For information on the training camp, please contact:  gabriel.kriel@gmail.com.

For more information on these and other events taking place this coming weekend, please follow the links provided below:

 

Results - ATC Runners at Comrades 2017:

Name	Category	Time	P Sex	Pos Cat
Brett Nattrass	MOPEN	08:21:42	1105	652
Marié Wessels	FOPEN	08:35:44	75	49
Dominic Boyle	MOPEN	08:45:28	1693	937
Nic De Beer	M40	08:48:38	1796	671
Oliver Davies	MOPEN	08:55:20	2052	1107
Ashleigh Hansen	FOPEN	09:02:21	169	108
Coenraad Hefer	MOPEN	09:08:44	2303	1237
Miguel Netto	MOPEN	09:08:41	2302	1236
Gregory Torr	M40	09:22:21	2718	993
Nicholas Godwin	MOPEN	09:33:58	3064	1606
Caitlin Wolstenholme	FOPEN	09:38:32	324	184
James Dillon	MOPEN	09:45:03	3437	1774
Willem Pieters	MOPEN	09:54:23	3811	1925
Hp Muller	M40	10:11:23	4408	1705
Ross Mcewan	MOPEN	10:23:10	4944	2389
Robert Timmis	MOPEN	10:23:11	4945	2390
Piet Viljoen	M50	10:23:57	4985	565
James Faulds	M40	10:27:47	5166	1997
Ross Rivalland	MOPEN	10:45:41	6145	2880
Willem Le Roux	MOPEN	10:48:31	6353	2972
Dino Higham	MOPEN	10:49:32	6430	3000
Justin Parker	MOPEN	10:56:35	6922	3207
Dean Allan Johnston	MOPEN	11:08:36	7495	3435
Kirk Kennedy	MOPEN	11:15:27	7824	3567
Gerhard Maree	MOPEN	11:15:32	7830	3570
Rebecca Laird	F40	11:32:01	1865	725
Marc Smith	M40	11:32:02	8904	3424
John Cleophas	M40	11:34:56	9057	3477
Lauren Garvey	FOPEN	11:39:08	2060	1010
Esther Patience	F40	11:49:56	2374	909
Nicol Carstens	MOPEN	11:49:56	10188	4452
Kirsten Hopwood	FOPEN	11:54:02	2535	1243

Iroman 70.3 DBN - ATC Entrants				18 June 2017
ATC	Race	Individual		ATC	Race	Individual
#	Number	Name		#	Number	Name
1	4	Jenny Close		31	243	Mark Cliff
2	18	Iain Mc Gregor		32	244	Pierre Conradie
3	32	Jos Balk		33	245	Jeremy De Tolly
4	37	Carmen Burger		34	246	Russell Deacon
5	51	Michael Grant		35	247	Robyn Elford
6	59	Ruan Hessell		36	248	Jacques Fourie
7	86	Rudolph Oosthuizen		37	249	Roy Gordon
8	87	Alice Oosthuizen		38	250	Peter Hartmann
9	107	Genelle Van Der Riet		39	251	Daniel Hayes
10	110	Jonathan Van Wyk		40	252	Debbie Hibbert
11	111	Tina Van Wyk		41	253	Caronne Jones
12	130	Crispin Barrett		42	255	Martha Koekemoer
13	132	Kirsty Blackford		43	256	Patrick Lawson
14	136	Andre Brand		44	257	Elzane Lotz
15	148	Roy Davis		45	258	Genine Manchip
16	151	Derek De Vries		46	259	Sean Mcculla
17	164	Trevor Geddie		47	260	Kevin Mckinney
18	166	Xanri Haak		48	261	Gareth Metzler
19	185	Michelle Krebs		49	262	Sofie Moens
20	186	Jacobus Kruger		50	263	David Petersen
21	193	Carl May		51	264	Mark Shnaps
22	204	Mario Santana		52	265	Annalie Smith
23	222	Sue Van Diggele		53	266	Hans Sukel
24	229	Samantha Whelpton		54	267	Andro Theart
25	237	STeve Attwell		55	268	Kirsty Thompson
26	238	Marco Barbieri		56	269	Nick Turner
27	239	Andrew Barends		57	270	Astra Van Der Westhuizen
28	240	Rhys Carr		58	271	Vasili Vass
29	241	Lindsay Cilliers		59	272	Gert Wilkins
30	242	Gavin Cilliers		60	291	Ben Nortier
61	321	Matthys Lourens		91	1359	Evan Cory
62	346	Paul Hough		92	1387	Graeme Edwards
63	370	Carmen Katz		93	1438	Brian Kennedy
64	371	Lesyl Potgieter		94	1451	Rich Lain
65	495	Louis Botha		95	1465	Neil Malherbe
66	521	Jacques De Villiers		96	1506	David Petersen
67	582	Alexander Krebs		97	1538	Jason Sive
68	631	Mario Penso		98	1541	John Smith
69	841	Oliver Johnston		99	1542	Justin Smith
70	842	Craig Johnston		100	1584	Anton Vogel
71	858	Willem Le Roux		101	1676	Sean Gottschalk
72	895	Darren Noche		102	1697	Sam Houlie
73	898	Francois Olivier		103	1700	Paul Ingpen
74	939	Mark Smith		104	1711	Thabo Khojane
75	998	Steve Wearne		105	1722	Ryk Lochner
76	1015	Logan Baynham		106	1724	Japie Ludick
77	1034	Simon Brinckmann		107	1782	Jurjen Sjouerman
78	1074	Matthew Glenday		108	1870	Christopher Davis
79	1076	Brent Godfrey		109	1939	Andrew Rankin
80	1083	Pinny Hack		110	1963	Gerhardt Van Niekerk
81	1121	Jacobus Kruger		111	1987	Paul Corbett
82	1131	Eugene Lindeque		112	2123	Tara-Lynne Smith
83	1183	Leslie Pottier		113	2137	Chantal Berowsky
84	1210	Mark Roussot		114	2148	Jennifer Clarke
85	1241	Cobus Stofberg		115	2163	Nikita Fensham
86	1242	David Sullivan		116	2189	Ashleigh May
87	1274	Justin Van Wyk		117	2205	Ashlea Paddock
88	1284	Bradley Voges		118	2218	Kelly Styane
89	1307	Clinton Arnot		119	2234	Alexandra Antonakis
90	1321	Shaun Borstrock		120	2310	Roxan Shapurjee
121	2324	Tessie Van Schalkwyk		130	2477	Marinda Lindeque
122	2328	Georgia Veale		131	2564	Roslynne Harrington
123	2351	Corneli Dittrich		132	2567	Oonagh Hunter
124	2412	Pippa Van Den Berg		133	2568	Britt Hyland
125	2414	Madele Van Heerden		134	2599	Shelley Van Leeuwen
126	2439	Nikki Crous		135	2621	Tricia Maslin
127	2455	Tania Fourie		136	2655	Jennifer O'Hanlon
128	2466	Kerry Jack		137	2685	Kristin Milne

 

Enjoy the week!

ATC