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Female 1 Heidi Alexander 25m 51s 2 Marisa Pentecost 26 14 3 Nicole Cope 26 19 4 Sue Clark 26 23 5 Koumagawa Yukie 26 49 6 Kirsty Whiting 26 59 7 Naomi Calder 27 04 8 Debbie Tanner 27 29 9 Nicola de Lautour 28 04 10 Rebecca Nesbit 28 13 11 Katie Bennett 28 18 12 Jade Gilbertson 28 23 13 Sione Jongstra 28 44 14 Leanne Johnston 28 46 15 Janet Tyler 28 50 Male 1 Brent Foster 22m 25s 2 Rodney Gordon 23 21 3 William Green 23 26 4 Taku Obara 23 31 5 Clark Ellice 23 57 6 Chris Ritchie 24 22 7 James Elvery 24 27 8 Shingo Tani 24 34 9 Paul Angland 24 37 10 Chris Williams 24 41 11 Jonath. Counsell 24 45 12 Jean L Boulanger 25 17 13 Simon Geach 25 21 14 Dennis Wakefield 25 24 15 Steven Nicholls 25 28 Stroke & Stride Grand Prix Points after Race #5 Female Points 1 Heidi Alexander 90 2 Marisa Pentecost 80 3 Debbie Tanner 71 4 Nicole Cope 59 5 Kirsty Whiting 55 6 Sue Clark 47 7 Nicola de Lautour 44 8 Naomi Calder 39 9 Rebecca Nesbit 20 10 Leanne Johnston 17 11T Shantelle Bliss 13 11T Tracey Fromow 13 13T Gayle Clark 11 13T Sione Jongstra 11 13T Leanne Matchett 11 13T Koumagawa Yukie 11 17T Katie Bennett 9 17T Brooke Pattle 9 17T Udi-Ann Delport 9 20 Elen Clarke 7 21 Jennifer Cooper 5 22T Louise Boulanger 4 22T Jade Gilbertson 4 24T Josie Sinclair 3 24T Hayley Swaving 3 24T Cindy Taylor 3 27T Elizabeth Orchard 2 27T Vanessa Palmer 2 29T Julia Cree 1 29T Kelly O'Donnell 1 29T Janet Tyler 1 Male 1 Brent Foster 100 2 William Green 75 3 Rodney Gordon 62 4 Chris Williams 32 5T Stuart Blake 28 5T Jonathon Counsell 28 7 Steven Nicholls 24 8 Clark Ellice 22 9 Dean Jagusch 21 10T Paul Angland 20 10T Marty Birch 20 10T Chris Ritchie 20 13 James Elvery 19 14 Oliver Tompkins 18 15T Simon Geach 17 15T Haydn Woolley 17 17 Richard Harding 15 18 Taku Obara 13 19 Dennis Wakefield 12 20T Jochen Cals 11 20T Ken Hight 11 20T Dylan Mordaunt 11 23 Craig Johns 9 24T Jean L Boulanger 8 24T Shingo Tani 8 26T Tony Hawkes 6 26T Quentin Smith 6 26T Craig Tulloch 6 29 Kirk Trigance 5 30 Lewis Prebble 4 31 Ian Horsburgh 3 32 Tom Forch 2 33T Dave Chambers 1 33T Nicholas Wedde 1Race Report
A stiff onshore breeze presented competitors with a nasty little chop to battle head on to the first buoy, but perhaps conditions were better than they looked from the shore as some rather smart times were recorded for the 750 metre swim. The first woman from the water was Rebecca Nesbit who lead in the winners from our previous two events Marisa Pentecost and Debbie Tanner.
Defending Series Champion, Heidi Alexander was a minute down heading out on the 4 kilometre run but was hoping the extra kilometre this time out would give her the necessary room to run down those ahead. And so it proved, as they came back into view at St Heliers Bay, Heidi had taken the lead from Marisa and secured her third victory of the season. Marisa Pentecost ran well to score a valuable second place just ahead of those renowned runners Nicole Cope and Sue Clark. A newcomer to the Series, Koumagawa Yukie was the next to finish, snatching fifth place from our regular competitors.
The men's field started their race adjacent to and at the same time as the first women exited the water which gave the crowd lining the foreshore a simultaneous shot of sporting action to feast upon. Again the men's field made short work of the 750 metre swim, with the unstoppable Brent Foster this time going head to head with Scott Rice around the buoys.
But after that the same old story unfolded for the fifth time this season. Swimming with Brent is only chapter one, chapter two is matching strides with him along Auckland's waterfront and so far this season no one is getting close to doing that. Brent Foster records win number five, the ever fitter Rodney Gordon overcomes a 75 second deficit to run down William Green for second. Taku Obara adds to the international flavour of the field to get up for fourth ahead of local lad, Clark Ellice.