De­spite fac­ing ex­treme weath­er con­di­tions, Sa­lome Bur­glass and Jacque­line Jod­han se­cured a one-two fin­ish for T&T at Grena­da's an­nu­al triathlon on Sun­day at the Port Louis Ma­ri­na. The 25th edi­tion of the race, which was al­so used as the fo­rum for the Caribbean Triathlon Cham­pi­onships, saw scores of triath­letes brave the chal­leng­ing course that com­prised a 750m swim with a wa­ter start and a lad­der ex­it, a five-lap 20k bike event and a two-lap 5k run. At the end of the gru­elling race, it was Bur­glass who took first place ahead of fel­low na­tion­al vet­er­an Jod­han, leav­ing third po­si­tion for Ba­jan Chris­tine Choy.

Be­ing two of the longest stand­ing vet­er­an Women's triath­letes in the Caribbean, Jod­han and Choy were ex­treme­ly pleased with their per­for­mances, and were hap­py for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to use the event to gauge their fit­ness lev­els as they con­tin­ue to gear up for up­com­ing com­pe­ti­tions. Choy and Jod­han are well known on the Caribbean triathlon cir­cuit and have been in­volved in ad­min­is­tra­tive as­pects of the sport. Choy has been on the Bar­ba­dos triathlon ex­ec­u­tive for more than 25 years and is ded­i­cat­ed to de­vel­op­ing the sport among adult and kids in Bar­ba­dos and the Caribbean.

Jod­han of re­cent has be­come more in­volved in the pro­mo­tion and growth of Open Wa­ter swim­ming in T&T, with the im­me­di­ate fo­cus be­ing on new spon­sor­ship and in­creas­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion in open wa­ter mas­ters swim­ming and sup­port­ing new and chal­leng­ing events on the open-wa­ter cal­en­dar in the coun­try which in­cludes: the Kia Gas­pa­ree Swim; the Las Cuevas to Mara­cas Open Wa­ter Swim, which is card­ed for the last week­end next month; and the an­nu­al Cross Har­bour Swim, card­ed for late Sep­tem­ber. Across the Caribbean, new events on the cal­en­dar al­so in­clude the Blue Wa­ter Se­ries, open wa­ter swims in Turks & Caicos and the Cay­man Is­lands, and the pop­u­lar Nevis to St Kitts race.