By BVI Tri Federation

In the tenth edition of the TSC Tri, Antony Spencer successfully defended his 2014 title, Tash Ruscheinski topped the ladies field after her second place last year, and Appleby snatched the Corporate Cup from Deloitte setting a new corporate team record in the process.

Antony posted a time of 1 hour, six minutes and seven seconds, a minute slower than his course record-setting time last year, but enough (by 59 seconds) to beat young pretenders Richard Morgan and Russell Crumpler to second and third place respectively.

This was Antony’s fifth victory having won the inaugural event in 2005, the second event in 2006, then again in 2008. After a long six-year drought he roared back to form in 2014.

Tash took three minutes off her 2014 time, finishing in 1 hour, 14 minutes and 37 seconds, but narrowly beat Jenny McIvor, an up and coming lady, by a mere 20 seconds. Kay Reddy was third.

Appleby fielded two teams to wrestle glory from the other corporate entrants and Appleby 1 – Jeff Kirk, Gareth Thomas, and Adam Holdt – took the victory. They set a new corporate team record of 1 hour, three minutes, and 28 seconds, taking two and a half minutes off the record set by Ogier in 2012. Ernst & Young was second and Deloitte was third.

The Hoohaas, a strong all-women team comprising Tash Ruscheinski, Rowena Lawrence and Kat Crumpler, won the open team division, finishing 28 seconds ahead of Tri-2-Hards, who in turn finished 47 seconds ahead of Tri-Agra.

The TSC Tri is the first event of the 2015 BVI triathlon season and consists of a 750m swim, 20k bike ride and 5k run.

Next event is the X-Tri at Smuggler’s Cove on March 8.

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By BVI Triathlon Federation

On Saturday, Richard Morgan won his second BVI Steelman title and Tash Ruscheinski, hot off her recent Semi Steel win, her first. Richard covered the 51.5km race in 2 hours, 42 minutes and 30 seconds, while Tash completed the course in 2 hours, 51 minutes and 54 seconds. Neither of last year’s winners – Chris Ghiorse and Gillian Howe – defended their titles.

Guy Williamson, Richard’s nearest challenger, exited the swim a mere 15 seconds behind Richard and was well into the nine-lap ride around Beef Island, when he rode into a bike-eating pothole puncturing both tires and forcing him to retire. For the remainder of the race, Richard was able to take his foot off the gas.
Adrian Dale and Simon Cook rounded out the podium places for the Mens division, while Kay Reddy and Jenny McIvor were second and third in the Ladies division.

Richard won his first Steelman in 2012.

Four  teams competed – The Three Stooges, Drink Strong, Manuel’s Angels, and Team Carroll – with the Three Stooges (Paul Waldron, Laurent Keeble-Buckle and Dan Mitchell), taking the victory.

The BVI Steelman is an Olympic distance race with a 1.5km swim, 40km ride and 10km run, the last and most challenging event of the BVI Triathlon Federations’s annual calendar.

The Mens and Ladies records set in 2007 and 20111 respectively still stand: Mens: Chris Ghiorse, 2:27:03, 2007; Womens: Sally Blackmore, 2:49:45, 2011.

ABRIDGED RESULTS
Mens Indiviudal
Richard Morgan 2:42:30
, Adrian Dale 2:51:26
, Simon Cook 2:56:06
, Guy Williamson DNF

Ladies Individual
Tash Ruscheinski 2:51:54, 
Kay Reddy 2:58:17
, Jenny McIvor 3:02:13
, Rhiannon Jones N/A

Teams

The Three Stooges (Paul Waldron, Laurent Keeble-Buckle, Dan Mitchell) 2:37:54
, Drink Strong (Chris, Jonathan, Ciaran) 2:41:09
, Manuel’s Angels (Tia, Aurelie, Manuel) 3:03:05,    
Team Carroll (Sarah, Simon, Grant) 3:05:42

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In the BVI Triathlon’s National Sprint Champs held on Saturday, Richard Morgan, 2012 national champion, regained his men’s title. Sue Tucker became the Ladies champion, setting a new course record, which was also broken by the second and third place ladies too.

Morgan clocked a time of 1 hour, 16 minutes and 16 seconds, taking the title from last year’s winner Russel Crumpler. Crumpler didn’t defend his title but Morgan’s time was just under three and half minutes faster than Crumpler’s 2013 winning time and just under two minutes faster than his 2012 time. Guy Williamson was a scant 1 minute and 2 seconds behind Morgan for second place and Adrian Dale was third.

Sue Tucker with a finish time of 1 hour, 19 minutes and 13 seconds shattered the freshly minted 2013 ladies record set by Kat Crumpler last year. She took a considerable 3 minutes and 52 seconds off the record; Crumpler had taken almost three minutes off the record last year. Second placer Tash Ruschenski and third placer Gillian Howe also broke the 2013 record. The ladies field is getting faster and faster; there is now only 5 minutes and 37 seconds between the men’s and ladies’ records. The ladies have taken almost 8 minutes off their record since 2011.

Chris Ghiorse remains the course record holder with a time of 1:13:36 set in 2011.

Team Commonwealth won the team event with a time of 1 hour, 11 minutes and 32 seconds.

The event was held at Sandy Ground boatyard, Soper’s Hole. The event comprised a 750-metre swim, 20-kilometre bike ride and a five-kilometre run.

Next event on the BVI Triathlon Federation calendar is the Peter Island Athlon on June 14, details will be published shortly.

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