Nearly 600 swimmers lined up on Hobie Beach in Nelson Mandela Bay on the Eastern Cape of South Africa for the 8th round of the Axxess DSL Ocean Racing Series last week. 14-year-old Wayne Jones outsprinted Michael Marais (shown on left) to win the Crocs 3K Ocean Swim.

Chris van de Sande (shown finishing below)and Carmel Billson won the men’s and women’s divisions of the SPAR 1K swim.

Full results from Series is here with photographs located here.

Next race is on February 14th.

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