NEVIS CYCLE & TRIATHLON CLUB

Easter Sunday turned into a huge celebration for the record 136 swimmers who gathered at the Oualie Beach starting point for the 11th Nevis to St Kitts Cross Channel Swim, this annual event goes from strength to strength each year.

The changing weather conditions over the weekend made the crossing very turbulent but this comes with the challenge of open water swimming, the event was both a race and a challenge for the attending athletes, the racers were going for their respective times and the 'assisted' swimmers going for the adventure. Assisted swimmers are allowed to use any swimming aids they wished, such as mask and snorkels, wetsuits, flippers etc, but other than this they had to propel themselves across the channel.

Some of the stronger racers had their eys on the channel crossing record of 59:08 set by pro triathlete Olivier Marceau in 2011, others just wanted to set their own personal mark or improve on their previous best times.

It was  clear from the start that the women were most likely to set the best times as they  outnumbered the men 2 to 1 overall, and so said, so done with the fastest 5 times set by female athletes.

The fastest time of the day was 1:05:44 set by Christina Wensman of Ross University, with Annette Holmgren in 2nd and Valerie Gregoire in 3rd, in the mens division the top spot went to Shastri Roberts from Trinidad with a time of 1:11:33 followed by Al gruber and Wyatt Redongo in 3rd. Two very special categories were also recognised, with trophies given out to the top 3 under 16 yr old swimmers with Kai Jordan in 1st place followed by Daniel Fischman and Max Mollie, the other trophies were for oldest and youngest finisher, with honors taken by 68 yr old Jack Iliff, and 7 yr old Eli Segota.

Special thanks to all of the Ross students who volunteered for kayak support, Collette, Paula, Tessan and Khaled, the SKN Coast Guard, Clevin, Coby, and Wasco for the boat support and all the other private boaters, Jet skiers and SUP owners who helped in the safety patrol.

This event was sponsored by The Wheel World Cycle Shop, Ross university, Reggae Beach Bar and Mr X Shiggidy Shack under the auspices of the SKN Triathlon Federation. 

COMMENTS:-

Thank you again for a great day yesterday! I am so glad I participated and look forward to doing it again next year!

Christina Wensman

Thank you! It was definitely a challenge and I will be training for the one next year so that I can finish with a better time!

Sincerely,

Danielle McLendon

I had a great time
participating in the channel swim!  It was a great challenge to accomplish
and you guys did a great job of putting on the event!

Alice Porco

RESULTS - RACING