New swim event for KZN
The New Year Swim Challenge will be held at Midmar Dam on 13 and 14 January.
A NEW event has been added to the calendar of seeding events leading up to the aQuellé Midmar Mile, and this time it’s happening in KwaZulu-Natal.
The New Year Swim Challenge will be held at Midmar Dam on 13 and 14 January.
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Following the format of the Lake Heritage Water Festival, which will be held at Cradle Moon Lakeside Game Lodge the following weekend, the race will offer 3km, 5km and 10km swims on Saturday.
These events will make up the KZN Open Water Champs for 2018.
Sunday will consist of 1 200m swims for various categories, including “girls U13; women 31 and over”, “boys U13; men 31 and over” and “men and women 14-30”. The event will conclude with a 600 metre fun swim for everybody to enjoy.
The schedule of events is as follows:
– Saturday
Event 1 8am 5km and 10km start (cut off: 3h30min)
Event 2 11.30am 3km (cut off: 2 hours)
– Sunday
Event 3 8.30am Girls 13 and under; women 31 and over 1 200m
Event 4 9.45am Boys 13 and under; men 31 and over 1 200m
Event 5 11am Men and women 14-30 1 200m
Event 6 12.15pm Fun swim
You can enter online via www.entrytime.com. Online entries for events 1-5 cost R150, and R80 for the fun swim. On-the-day entries will cost R200 and R120 respectively.
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