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Record numbers,
record times
in fourth year

Out-of-town entries came
through with winning efforts in
five of the six categories at July
15th’s fourth annual Skeena
Valley Triathlon. -

The two major winners
entered from Quesnel.

The fast,
and the .
determined

Fastest swim — David An-
thony, Kitimat (9.56).

Fastest bike — Peter
Krause, Smithers (1:05:36).

Fastest run — Richard
Harrison, Smithers (34:28).

Slowest swim — Peter
King (27:08).

Slowest bike — Cheryl
Kinton (1:57:01).

Slowest run — Peter King
(1:28:44). .

Slowest overall — team or
individual — Peter King
(3:43:40),

Neil McColl of Quesnel set the
record over the new course for
individual men with an overall
time of two hours, 25 seconds.
McColl’s effort earned him.
camera equipment from Canon
($1,000 value) and a trip to next
year’s Ironman competition at
Penticton.

Quesnel’s Rhonda Roy Lance
topped individual women in two
hours, 13 minutes, 11 seconds.
She won a trip to Mexico, or a
trip to Hawaii to watch the
islands’ triathlon next year.

Roy Lance turned down an
entry in the Penticton Budlight
Ironman, so that went to the
runnerup, Cheryl Steele of
Prince Rupert. Steele crossed the
line almost 30 minutes behind
Roy Lance,
‘Third place went to Megan
Kureluk of Calgary.

Runnerup to McColl was one
of the three running Nelson
brothers of Prince Rupert,

Charles. He was.two minutes, 20.
seconds behind McColl. - The
.. oldest Nelson,-+— John, was.only..

50 seconds behind McColl but
was disqualified. Terrace’s Col-
in Parr came in third, over nine
minutes behind the winning
time.

The best overall record went
to the Terrace-Smithers’ men’s
team of veteran Ed Ansems,
Doug MacKenzie and Tyler
Cochrane. They whipped the
course in one hour, 54.07
minutes. For Ansems, it- was the
third time he’d been on the win-
ning men’s team." _

Another Terrace team - Gary
Pettipas, Rolfe McCooey, and
Terry Llewellyn, struggled
through 16 minutes behind the
winners for the runnerup title.
Shawn Paupst, Frank Ackerman
and Andre Qualizza took third.

The women’s team title went
to a Smithers trio. Kelli
Maskiewich, Gillian Wilson and
Tracy Konst timed in at 2:21.07.
The two-woman Terrace team of
Sue Simpson and Diana Wood
were four minutes behind. Simp-
son, a highly-rated runner, did
the bicycle section while Wood:
was the swimmer and runner,

The Terrace trio of Christine
Sharples, Becky Easton and
Esther Bahen earned the bronze
medal position.

Smithers also took the mixed
team section. Richard Harrison
(one of the zone’s top runners),
Peter Krause (a top class biker)
and Sarah Goodacre just missed
out on the team overall mark
with a 1:54.56 — 49 seconds
slower than the men’s team best.

It was Telkwa’s Denise
Knight, Joe Galvin and Peter
Godor. Christy Wilson and
Jerome Valdez crossed the finish
line in third.

Triathlon organizer Dr. Dale
Greenwood expressed disap-
pointment at the awards’ ban-
quet on a lack of junior entries

“as individuals.

Only two males signed up to
compete in all three venues.

‘There were no females. The win-

ner turned out to be David An-
thony of Kitimat who timed in at
2:17.04. Runnerup Joe Nelson |
of Prince Rupert was four
minutes behind.

The overall total entry was
172. It was a record total.’

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Weary but victorious, Neil McColl of Quesnel shufffes down the walkway at
the end of the course after winning the invidividual men’s category at the
fourth annual Skeena Valley Triathion with a record time of two hours, 25

seconds.

Former Cal student
now ninth in world

A former Caledonia high
school student is making a name
for herself in the sport of
triathlon. She's Kendal Mor-
rison, 24-year-old daughter of
former Terrace RCMP staff-
sergeant Murray Morrison.
After leaving Terrace for Cran-
brook a few years ago, Kendal

caught the triathlon fever, and is
currently ranked ninth best in
the world. Last year she placed
ninth at the World Champion-
ships and third in the Canadian
Nationals. On July 15 Kendal
was third at the B.C. Champion-
ship event at English Bay.

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