Good sports: Superkidz competitors celebrate their medals.
ABOUT 150 children showed they have what it takes as budding triathletes in a Geelong Independent Superkidz Triathlon at Eastern Beach.
The event was part of a three-day Geelong Multi Sports Festival last weekend, raising money for charity support body Give Where You Live.
The festival also included a range of individual and team events over various distances as well as professional athletes competing in long-course, olympic and sprint-distance triathlons.
Geelong Independent managing editor Tony Galpin hailed Superkidz an outstanding event.
“Entries were up about double on last year and all the kids really gave it their best,” he said.
“They set a great example. Congratulations to everyone who competed.”
In the Urban 2.80.20 long-course triathlon, Clayton Fennell won the elite men’s category in a time of three hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds. Belinda Granger won the women’s in 4:11.39.
Matt Williams won the Olympic distance in 2:03.45, with Elly Franks first of the women with 2:28.33.
Laurent Vidal won the men’s spring distance in 59.19.7, while Beijing bronze medallist Emma Moffatt won the women’s in 1:35.2.
Among other winners on the day was Anglesea’s Colin Anderson who won an $3499 Tarmac Comp road bicycle in an Independent SMS giveaway competition.
“It will be fantastic to ride a bike so more advanced in features than my old bike,” he said.
