By LT Scott McGregor
An interesting feature to come out of the Triathlon National Champs in Wellington is that Navy, Army and Air Force will all be represented at this year’s World Triathlon Championships in Canada in June.
The RNZAF’s SGT Greg O’Conner (left) competed at the NZ Tri nationals earlier in April to be placed 2nd - just 1 second off a national title. (WN-08-0037-47-tn).
CAPT Shanon Stallard (Army) and SGT Greg O'Conner (Air Force) and I will make up the NZDF contingent. As far as I know this is the first time a representative from each of the three Services has been selected into a New Zealand team to contest a World Championship event, which is pretty special in itself. Also of interest is the ‘World Corporate Triathlon Championships’ in Austria in July. This event requires three individuals to complete 3 individual races in a relay fashion (400m swim / 12 km bike / 3.5km run). All three of us are already representing New Zealand in our respective categories. Since we come from all three Services we see this as a rare and exciting opportunity to contest the World Corporate Triathlon Champs under the NZDF banner. With all three of us representing New Zealand, I know that it would take a very strong corporate team to beat us.