Rainbow Warriors were again victorious at the recent TDC Ultimate tag team triathlon held at Las Cuevas.
Head coach & race director, Jason Gooding along with Tamiko Butler, Alexandra Consten and Ancil Green took the RWTC & Friends to the finish line in a time of 1:19:38 ahead of the RWTC Earthquake 1:22:41 (Jodi Gomez, Ricardo Chacin, Christiane Farah, Matthew Chung) and Team OAW#2 (Jordan Van Reeken, Pedro Zalama, Lily Stauble, Christian Gillette) completing the their event in 1:23:24.
RWTC's The Judgement 1:36:38 (Maegan Ifill, Alistair Beadle, Kiyomi Rankine, Ian Chin) took the top prize in the Masters category while Team XO Young Stars 1:41:51 (Shinelle Padmore, Derek Daniel, Kristen Jacobs, Stephen Welch) and XO#3 2:05:01 (Kelly-Ann Charles, Ron Mollineau, Arlene Hamblin, Elson James) finished 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The Juniors were represented with Emma Chin Lee, Andrew Gillette, Lauryn Pounder and Logan Raymond of Team +OAW also finishing 5th overall in a time of 1:33:24. Second place went to RWTC � Crackerjacks 1:39:25 (Ariel Franco, Scott Marchack, Maia Nieves, Jean-Marc Granderson). Taking bronze was RWTC-Radioactive (Kirsten St. Omer, Troy Llanos, Jodi Nieves, Darion Nimblette) in a time of 2:03:44.
There were also awards for the fastest male and fastest female on the day to complete the 200m swim, 5km bike and 1km beach run, and those awards went to Matthew Chung 18:48 (RWTC) and Alexandra Consten 20:01 (representing RWTC).
Gooding was very pleased with his team's performances as they were able to make podium in every category, Open, Masters and Juniors. "It is good to see that our junior and senior training programs work. The team members train hard and the results are there to show", said Gooding. Sponsors of this event include TDC, Boomerang Caterers, Mike's Bikes, Gatorade, Blue Waters and Odessey Timing Co. (Electronic Race Timing).
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