It’s a world record for SA pair

MILAN Erasmus claimed the youth world record he has been chasing for the last three years at Lifesaving’s World Championships in Adelaide, Australia.

Hosts Australia took overall honours in the Youth and Open Championship, with Team South Africa finishing fourth in the Youth Championship and sixth overall from 34 nations.

Individually, youth captain Erasmus’s world record, in tandem with Connor Botha, was the highlight of South Africa’s youth challenge.

Erasmus and Botha won gold in the pool line throw and broke the world record in taking first place.

Team South Africa’s youth squad performance was the best in South Africa’s history at the world championship.

Team South Africa won 21 medals and every one of the 12-strong squad earned a medal.

In the Open Championship, South Africa’s most celebrated world championship participant Ryle de Morny added another gold to his 10-plus haul of medals over the last decade.

De Morny beat off an aggressive and calculated Australian challenge to take first in the flags.

The Notten brothers, Nicholas and Dominic, also enjoyed a strong competition.

Dominic got bronze in the board race, with Nicholas fourth.

Nicholas earlier in the competition also took gold in the surf ski,

Matthew Fenn and Ally Chislett also won silver in the youth surf ski and surf swim, respectively.

Mandi Maritz, in the Open women’s sprint, also won silver to confirm her standing as one of the best beach sprinters in the world.

Team South Africa’s Kira Bester, Tamryn Mckie, Alice Edward and Milan Erasmus won gold on the opening day in the junior mixed simulated emergency rescue competition (SERC).

OVERALL TEAM RESULTS:

1. Australia 2. New Zealand

3. France 4. Germany 5. Italy

6. SOUTH AFRICA