Brigg Bomber National Quadrathlon Championships

Steve Clark / 27.07.2010

The Brigg Bomber is a quadrathlon, which from its inception has been designed as an international event. It was conceived with the World Middle distance championships in mind, and also as an addition to North Lincs' Adventure Challenge for those who like a swim.

The event is made up of a 1500m River swim in the Ancholme followed by a 7km Kayak, 40km bike and a 10km Run to finish.

In total 38 competitors took part coming from all over Cardiff, Bourmouth, chester, Manchester, Newcastle as well as a lot of local Lincsquad members.

The race was open to Teams and solos with the athletes set off in 2 waves the first at 8:30am and the 2nd at 9:00am from Broughton bridge on the Ancholme.

The fastest swim off the day was set by Local Scunthorpe Anchor swimmer and Lincsquad Athlete Lauren York with a very impressive time of 20:36, Steve Grocock (team Ashley) was 2nd out the water in 22:49, followed by 3rd Paul Clark (team Manvers) 22:55 and 4th Steve Clark (Lincsquad) in 23:04, Nigel Crowe (Northumberland) making up the top 5 in 24:09.

Onto the Kayak and competitors faced strong head winds making the paddle a real hard effort. Andrew Grimwood from Lincoln moved up from 8th to 1st with a time of 38:23, Steve Clark moved up to 2nd with a time of 43:28.

Onto the 3rd stage the bike and Steve Clark took the lead with a bike split of 57:48. Grimwood 67:35 held onto 2nd been chased by Messingham man Phil Binch 61:01 to be just over a minute behind him. 4th Pete Connolly recorded a time of 58:57 and 5th was now David Barker with a time of 64:07.

The fastest run of the day was set by Clark to take the overall win to become British Standard Distance Quadrathlon Champion 2010 in a time of 2 hours 45 minutes 5 seconds. Andrew Grimwood finished 2nd with a time of 3 hours 1 minute 48 seconds. Phil Binch 3 hours 3 minutes took the final podium spot.