Murphy, Stergiadis win at Oanob

The 13th annual Pointbreak Open Water Swim took place last Sunday morning at Lake Oanob Resort. The dam was a sight to behold with water levels close to 100%.Over 240 people entered the event with participants having the choice of four distances – a 2.1 km, 700 metres or arduous 5 km swim. The last event of the day was the much anticipated Kids Fun Swim. The 5 km female swim was won by Heleni Stergiadis in 1:10:19. The defending champion took the lead from the start to beat Michaela Ohm (1:27:28) and Cheryl Young (third in 1:29:23).The 5 km male swim was won by Paddy Murphy in 1:17:04. Only five seconds behind him was Tyrone Kotze in 1:17:09 and third was Phillipp Sonntag in 1:27:40.The overall male 2.1 km swim was won by Corné le Roux in 28:15, beating Arkell Wellman in 28:17 and Nico Esslinger in 28:19. Nico was the winner of the age category 15 and under.The overall female 2.1 km swim was won by Tiana Esslinger in 29:19. Second was Vicky Botha in 29:24 and third Maya Stange (31:34). Maya was also the winner of the age category 15 and under.The male 700 metre swim was won by Brave Magongo (12:10), followed by Robin Engelhard in 13:43 and Lorenzo du Raan in 13:52.The female 700 m swim was won by Carissa Esslinger in 13:30, ahead of Isabella Spath (14:12) and Maja Brinkmann (14:18).OTB sport, the event organisers, said in its concluding statement: “As people take to enjoying God's creation directly through exposure to nature, we see the sport of open water swimming growing in a similar fashion as mountain biking and trail running.“Open water swimming has become a growing sport with competitions now happening all over the world. Usually the distances for open water swimming are 3 km, 5 km and 10 km but as we are early days with official open water swimming in Namibia, we still keep the distances available for grass roots swimmers. We have the 700m, 2.1 km and the an official FINA 5km distance.“The Pointbreak event was an excellent testament to the popularity of open water swimming with more than 250 Namibians entering, ranging from the youngest (4 years old) to the oldest (over 70 years).“Entire families took part. Open water swimming is different to gala swimming as the conditions are much more uncertain. One has to continuously re-orient towards the buoys; one has to deal with people swimming against and even over you, and there is an advantage of drafting. “After partnering with Pointbreak these last 13 years we are happy that open water swimming is now a robust sport in the Namibian sporting calendar.”

Murphy, Stergiadis win at Oanob

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