DURBAN North resident, Alice Edward ended last year’s Lifesaving World Championships (LWC) in Adelaide (Australia) on a high returning home with a gold and bronze medal. Edward represented the South African junior team at the global event.
Edward won South Africa’s first medal at the championships in a team event with Mount Edgecombe’s Tamryn McKie, Cape Town’s Kira Bester and Johannesburg’s Milan Erasmus winning gold in the junior mixed Simulated Emergency Rescue Competition (SERC).
The Simulated Emergency Response Competition tests judgment, knowledge, and abilities of four lifesavers who, acting as a team, apply lifesaving skills in a simulated emergency situation unknown to them prior to the start.
What is more, Edward, won bronze in another team event, the taplin relay with fellow local residents, Paige Horn, Ally Chislett and Cape Town’s Kira Bester.
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“With the SERC event, we weren’t sure what scenario we were facing. After we’d completed our event I asked the team manager if they thought we’d done a good job because I had a feeling we had. But when she said no I felt a little deflated, it wasn’t until after the event was completed that other competitors were congratulating us and I was shocked but super pleased at the same time.
“In the taplin relay we wanted to do well and were confident of medal. This was by far one of my most successful international competitions and winning those two medals for South African made it all worth it,” she said.
A strong performance from the youth team saw the South African junior team finish fourth overall in the medal standings.
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The fourth-place finish, among 16 teams, was the best ever result for South Africa’s youth in the history of the competition.
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