New national champions after National Sprint Champs on Saturday

Richard Morgan was crowned the Men’s BVI National Sprint Champion on Saturday after completing the sprint triathlon in one hour, 18 minutes and 9 seconds.  He beat second-placer Adrian Dale by one minute and 26 seconds; Peter Wilmott was third.

Kay Reddy is the Ladies BVI National Sprint Champion after completing her swim, bike and run in one hour, twenty-six minutes and 2 seconds, beating Natasha Ruscheinski, and obliterating by 4 minutes and 46 seconds, last year’s winning time set by Carolina Pettigrew who did not defend her title this year.

The event took place at Sandy Ground boatyard, Sopers Hole, and consisted of a 750m swim, 20km ride to Struggling Man’s Cafe in Sea Cow’s Bay and back, followed by 5km run to Big Ben’s Superette and back.

Defending men’s champion, Chris Ghiorse, competed despite his lack of training and fitness and while posting a less than stellar performance, can seek solace that Morgan was short of his time last year by 4 minutes and 33 seconds.  However, Richard Morgan – together with Peter Wilmott and Kay Reddy – is preparing for the St Croix Ironman 70.3 next weekend: “The time was always going to be slow when I have got a half ironman the following weekend and there was no need to go to fast.”

Team Splash with Tash (Natasha Ruscheinski, Alston Hanley and Ludvig Bergkvist) scooped the team title posting a time of one hour and 12 minutes, beating Vicious Delicious (Tia Beckmann, Orano Andrews and Melvyn Knight and Tri Hard (Natasha Ruscheinski, Allison Beer and James Carr).

Eight men, two ladies, and six teams competed in the event.  Antony Spencer was the fasted swimmer with a time of 11 minutes and 38 seconds, Orano Andrews rode the fastest bike leg at 32 minutes and 20 seconds, and James Carr was the fastest runner with a time of 20 minutes and 39 seconds.

Last year Chris Ghiorse won the individual men’s, Carolina Pettigrew the individual women’s, and MSZ the team competition.  Ghiorse and Pettigrew recorded times of 1:13:36 and 1:30:48 respectively.

Next event on the BVI Triathlon calendar is the Anegada X-Treasure Tri on October 21.

Position	Mens Individual	Time
1	Richard Morgan	1 hr 18m 09s
2	Adrian Dale	1 hr 19m 35s
3	Peter Wilmott	1 hr 21m 18s
4	John Argyros	1 hr 22m 14s
5	Peter White	1 hr 26m 54s
6	Chris Ghiorse	1 hr 35m 11s
7	Tom Chapman	1 hr 52m 20s
8	Jovan van Heerden	2 hr 17m 04s
	Ladies Individual
1	Kay Reddy	1 hr 26m 02s
2	Natasha Ruscheinski	1 hr 29m 44s
	Teams
1	Splash with Tash	1 hr 12m
2	Vicious Delicious	1 hr 15m 5s
3	TriHard	1 hr 15m 27s
4	Desperate Housewives	1 hr 15m 41s
5	Jaendri’s Jackals	1 hr 24m 37s
6	Debbie does Des	1 hr 31m 47s