Success for triathlon club

JUST over two years ago, coaches Ann Maloney from Worthing Swimming Club and Julian Stevens from Worthing Harriers, joined up to enter a team in the Sussex Youth Games Aquathlon, in which the athletes complete a swim and a run in the course of the same race.

Neither expected this to be more than a 12-week project but such was the enthusiastic response from the young people involved that it was decided to carry on when the 2005 Sussex Youth Games were over and see what happened.

Two years later the Worthing Otters Junior Triathlon Club is flourishing. It was set up as a section of Worthing Swimming Club but receives significant help from Worthing Excelsior Cycling Club and Worthing Harriers as well.

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It has received a clubmark accreditation from its national governing body, which also carried with it a 500 club development grant by British Triathlon's sponsor, Corus.

Full story in West Sussex Gazette Sporting Odds June 6