Swim series continues in Tikioki

Swimmers dove back into the water last Monday with an impressive number of athletes taking to the Tikioki lagoon for the re-commencement of the local open water swim series.

The swim series continues today at 5.15pm in Tikioki where last Monday a total of 15 swimmers donned their togs and goggles and tackled one or more of the three course distances on offer.

Last weeks swim series was taken out by Tereora College physical education teacher Vanessa Palmer who blitzed the 1500m course in 25.23 with John Beasley just over a minute behind Palmer in 26.08 while Kevin Henderson took out third in 26.56.

The current swim series is seen as a build up to the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series.

The Cook Islands Aquatics Federation will also consider the next 7 weeks of races as part of the series build up to the King of the Bays, Auckland, on March 31 which will be a 2.8km open water swim from Milford to Takapuna Beach.

The event is heralded as New Zealand’s premiere ocean-swim event and the top male and female winners, which will be determined by individual results over the whole of the 12-week series including last year’s Ocean Swim Series and National Championships, will represent the Cook Islands at this event. Full results below.