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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>23</strong> 20<strong>23</strong><br />
DOMINANT: Taylor Chamberlain (left) was awarded top<br />
overall open male competitor, winning 10 events, while Lucy<br />
Stroud helped Taylors Mistake to seven team event wins.<br />
Taylor’s winning streak continues<br />
• By Jaime Cunningham<br />
TAYLOR Chamberlain has<br />
taken out another surf life saving<br />
title, this time at the southern<br />
region championships over the<br />
weekend.<br />
The 20-year-old helped Taylors<br />
Mistake finish second on the<br />
overall club points table with<br />
500, behind winners South<br />
Brighton (783) and ahead of<br />
third-placed Sumner (150).<br />
Chamberlain won 10 events<br />
over two days of competition at<br />
New Brighton beach, finishing<br />
as the top overall open male<br />
competitor.<br />
He won the ski race, run swim<br />
run, board race, surf race, and<br />
iron events in the open category.<br />
He was also a key part of five<br />
team event wins.<br />
Lucy Stroud starred in several<br />
winning teams for Taylors Mistake,<br />
including the open female<br />
double ski event with Pieta Luthi<br />
and the open mixed double ski<br />
with Liam O’Loughlin, as well as<br />
five relay events.<br />
Sumner had a handful of<br />
event winners, including Carl<br />
Tresfield, who won the under-15<br />
beach flags and sprints, while<br />
Ben Isles won the under-19 run<br />
swim run and iron events.<br />
Surf Life Saving New<br />
Zealand southern sports<br />
manager Luke Smith said the<br />
weekend was a “great event”<br />
in the lead-up to the TSB New<br />
Zealand surf life saving championships<br />
at New Brighton on<br />
March 9-12.<br />
“We had some really great conditions<br />
for an awesome weekend<br />
of competition at New Brighton,”<br />
Smith said.<br />
Both Taylors Mistake and<br />
Sumner will compete in<br />
the postponed Canterbury<br />
championships when it resumes<br />
with canoe racing on Friday<br />
with the remaining events on<br />
March 5.<br />
• For full results from<br />
the weekend, go to www.<br />
wavesresults.surflifesaving.<br />
org.nz/competition/491/<br />
wavesresults<br />
FULL STRETCH: South Brighton’s Rosie Falcous was dominant in beach events for the club, winning six, including both the U17 and U19 beach flags.<br />
Right – Sumner’s Maia Devereux competes in the U17 board race.<br />
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