Bay Harbour: December 06, 2017

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BAY HARBOUR
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Macklan does
not drop a set
in South Island
school finals
Macklan
Robertson
OUR LADY Star of the Sea School
pupil Macklan Robertson returned
home from Timaru last week with
two South Island primary school
tennis titles.
Macklan didn’t drop a set on his
way to winning both the singles
and doubles titles in
the year 6 and under
boys division at the
South Island primaryintermediate
school
finals.
In pool play, the second
seed won all three
of his pool games,
including a 5-4(8), 4-0
win over No 3 seed,
Ej Emilio Gonzaga, from Merrin
Primary School.
He then defeated No 1 seed Ethan
Cook in the tournament final 5-3,
5-4(6).
A week before the South Island
tournament, the Sumner Tennis
Club member competed at the
Canterbury primary-intermediate
school championships at Wilding
Park, where he was defeated by
Ethan 2-4, 2-4.
In Timaru, Macklan and Ethan
teamed up to win the year 6 and under
boys doubles title. They defeated
another all-Canterbury pairing of
Ej Emilio and James Kirk 7-5 in the
final.
Brignell blasts Hanmer marathon
FAST: Lisa Brignell won the women’s title at the Hanmer
Springs Alpine Marathon in a time of 3hr 11min 35sec.
PHOTO: KARL VAN BEEK
• By Gordon Findlater
SUMNER RUNNING Club
members braved Saturday’s
scorching heat to compete in
two marathon events around
the South Island.
Lisa Brignell won the women’s
title at the Hanmer Springs Alpine
Marathon in a time of 3hr
11min 35sec. Her time was even
good enough for second out of
all runners.
“I was actually leading the
race for about 38km and then
the guy that won the race
blasted past me and was really
quick on the downhill to the
finish,” said Brignell.
The run from Lake Tennyson
to Hanmer Springs was done in
27 deg C heat on shingle tracks,
mostly uphill until the final
downhill blast into Hanmer.
It was the first time Brignell
had run the event because it
falls on the same day as the popular
Kepler Challenge held in Te
Anau. However, with entries to
this year’s challenge selling out
in just 4min she took the opportunity
to run in Hanmer.
However, a strong contingent
from Sumner headed south
for the 30th anniversary of the
Kepler Challenge. Record high
temperatures gave the 60km
ultra marathon an extra challenge.
Competitors climbed as high
as 1390m and accumulated
more than 2400m of total vertical
height gain, including the
famous Luxmore Grunt.
Two-time previous Kepler
winner, Vajin Armstrong, of
Sumner, came into the event
this year with a hindered buildup,
recovering from hamstring
and sacroiliac joint pain.
Armstrong was stoked to have
left everything on the trail and
stormed home in 5hr 15min
30sec to finish in fifth.
Tane Cambridge and Nathan
Jones put in a solid show, with
only 9sec separating them at the
finish. Cambridge completed
his first Kepler in an impressive
time of 5hr 39min 52sec, finishing
12th. Jones finished 13th
overall and third in the male
over-40 class.
Other noticeable performances
from Sumner runners
came from Paul Timothy, who
finished 20th overall in 5hr
49min 19sec. Mark Adams, of
Redcliffs, managed to join the
sub-six hour club by finishing
25th in 5hr 58min 48sec. David
Slater was 32nd in 6hr 11min
39sec, and Shaun McWhirter
was 42nd with a personal best of
6hr 27min 6sec. Crystal Wilkinson,
who joined the Sumner
SPORTS
PRE-RACE: Paul Timothy,
Shaun McWhirter and Mark
Adams get ready to take on
the 60km Kepler Challenge.
club as a social member this
year, completed her first Kepler
in 8hr 22min.
The women’s event was won
by 26-year-old Ruby Muir,
of Wellington. It was her
fifth women’s title, which she
claimed with a time of 5hr
24min 54sec, just 1min 24sec
off the race record set in 2003.
Defending men’s champion
Sam McCutcheon, of
Wellington, defended his title
with a personal best time of
4hr 49min 50sec, 20min ahead
of Australian Stuart Gibson in
second
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