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SWIMMERS depart Sandy Cave for Kitsilano Beach during Saturday's Bay Challenge Swim. West Van's
Adriana Schemel set a bilstering Yace in pertect conditions to take women's first place in the 10-kilometre race.

Scheme! wins Bay Challenge

‘ By Andrew McCredie

Associate Editor
andrew@nsnews.com

ADRIANA Schemel

was the first woman to

hit the sand.of . |

im Kitsilano Beach during
last Saturday’s Bay

Challenge Open V Water,

f Swim

The, West Vancouver 27-.
B year. -old covered the 10-kilo-
A nctre, crossing —~: from Sandy
H Cove ‘in. West Vaneguyer to

the Pilar Vancouver beach -
inglish Bay —~ in two

outs 14 ‘minutes: and 19
seconds, The next, closest

womait competitor, made it

to thy beach 14 minutes later,
Scheylel also won the Bay
Challenge last year,
Agtording to race director
Hugls Wilson, this year's Bay

Challenge was the. biggest

ever, With a record 50 com-

-peritots in both relay and

solo gategories,

Wilsan added that the
conditions for this year’s race
were Oar perfects “Warm
temperatures and subdued
tides Ulawed swimmers to set
courses almost — directly

_towafds Kits Beach,”

“ft was the warmest swim
I'd ever done,” Schemel said
yestyrday of Saturday's race,
Schymel, a graduate of
Hillgide, began swimmin
whet ste was 10, and too

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ie

Up open water swimming no
years ago,

“I've done a few. masters
races, in the pool, but open
water is nider because you're
out there,” Schemel said:
“(t's not as boring as switt-
ming ina pool,”

Helping Schemel in her
defence of the Bay Challenge
tide was Canadian Cigar
Company owner Darryl
Rawlings, who piloted her
support boat during the race.

Victoria's Serge Score
shattered the course record
with a lightning quick time of
one hour, 49 minutes and 54
seconds, David Sage was sec-
ond overall with a time of
1:53.56,

Other North Shore swim-

ye

mers to post top- 10 finishes
included:

@ Pru Moore, first for
women age 40-49 with a
time of 2:55.37;

@ Patry Montgomery, first in
the women’s 50-and-above
eaegory with a time of
244,31)

i] Mark Andrew, second in
men’s 40-49 age group with
atime of 2:19.15;

a Brent Hobbs, third in the
men’s 20-29 division with a
time of 2:04.31; ~

@ Samantha Warwick,
fourth in the women’s 20-29
aBe. group with a time of
2:35.40,

The Bay Challenge is the
third of four races that com-
prise the 1997 Realty World
Open Water Swim Series.
Schemel finished fourth. in
the first race and won the see-
ond and the third.

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