Jeep elite athletes take podium at Ballito Jeep Warrior

July 19, 2016 AdventureLisa Featured, News 0

MEDIA RELEASE | This weekend, 16-17 July, saw the Jeep Warrior series Race 4 of 8 take place in KwaZulu-Natal at Sugar Rush Park in Ballito, with over 3500 competitors all racing to get the opportunity to drive off in a brand new Jeep until the next Jeep Warrior event, should they hit the top spot on the podium in the Black Ops Elite category.

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Sugar Rush Park saw some unusual rain prior to the race, making many of the obstacles slippery and immensely challenging, physically and mentally,but the Jeep OCR Team, Thomas Van Tonder, Jay Jay Deysel, Joshua Masudi, Carina Marx and Hlubi Mboya,faced up to the challenge and excelled.

In the Black Ops Elite Men’s Race, Jeep Team star racer, Thomas van Tonder, took top spot on the podium with a time of 01h40, over 30 minutes ahead of his biggest rival, Key Health Nevarest team racer, Greg Avierinos, in a time of 02h11, with fellow Jeep Team racer, Jay Jay Deysel, in 3rd place in 02h13, rounding off the Jeep Team’s solid achievements in the top elite race.

Jeep Team’s Joshua Masudi, alsoraced in Black Ops Elites, but cramped half wayending his race for podium.

Women’s Black Ops Elites, who compete over the same course as the men’s Black Ops Elites, had Jeep Team’s up-and-coming OCR star, Carina Marx, competing and nursing an injury, but achievinga respectable 5th place overall in a time of 02h29.

Jeep Team’s celebrity competitor, Hlubi Mboya, competed in the Commando Elite Women’s Race, and says of her race, “This was one of the hardest Warrior Races I have ever competed in. It took me two hoursbut I refused to give up my band and be disqualified, even when it meant trying to complete an obstacle over and over again.” Mboya’s inspiring tenacity saw her just short of a Top 10 place in the Commando Elites.

The Jeep Team will be competingin Jeep Warrior Race 5, which takes place from 20 – 21 August 2016 at Hazeldean Valley in Pretoria.

RESULTS

BLACK OPS ELITE – MEN

  1. THOMAS VAN TONDER    01:40:07
  2. GREG AVIERINOS               02:11:32
  3. JAY JAYDEYSEL                     02:13:26
  4. CLINT PRETORIUS              02:23:40
  5. ANRICH ZIMMERMAN    02:23:45

 

BLACK OPS ELITE – WOMEN

  1. HANNEKE DANNHAUSER    02:13:26
  2. TRISH BAHLMANN                 02:15:43
  3. DOMINIQUE DOLIVEIRA      02:16:49
  4. SABRINA DAOLIO                  02:23:32
  5. CARINA MARX                        02:59:26

COMMANDO ELITE – MEN

  1. MICHAEL ROSS                  00:51:42
  2. CALEN HASTIE                    00:51:53
  3. GARETH MARQUISS        00:56:01
  4. JASON FRIEDMAN           00:56:01
  5. DARREN MARQUISS         00:57:28

 

COMMANDO ELITE – WOMEN

  1. DANIELLA LUSHINGTON   01:21:17
  2. CINDY WILLS                          01:30:23
  3. TARYN STRYDOM                01:32:46
  4. KAELEE LUSHINGTON        01:33:07
  5. AMOR BEYERSBERGEN     01:33:42

 

ROOKIE ELITE – MEN

 

  1. ADRIAN ROUSSEL 00:31:41
  2. SHELDON CROUWKAMP 00:32:00
  3. RICHARD EKSTEEN 00:33:17

 

ROOKIE ELITES – WOMEN

  1. CHANTE HABIB 00:40:49
  2. LEONIE VAN ZYL 00:42:09
  3. KRISTY VAN DER MERWE 00:43:07

 

 

To find out more, go to the Jeep Warrior website – www.warrior.co.za. To keep up with the action, like Jeep Warrior’s Facebook page – www.facebook.com/thewarriorrace – or follow the event on Twitter – twitter.com/thewarriorrace.

 

Jeep #Warrior5 Pretoria – Hazeldean Valley 20 Aug – 21 Aug
Jeep #Warrior6 Nelspruit – Kwanyoni Lodge 24 Sept – 25 Sept
Jeep #Warrior7 Meerendal, Western Cape 22 Oct -23 Oct
Jeep #Warrior8 Pretoria – Legend MX 19 Nov – 20 Nov