Rainbow Beach Triathlon

Rainbow Beach Triathlon

The Rainbow Beach Triathlon provides triathletes the opportunity to race an Olympic distance triathlon over 2 days. This year, it was held on 25th and 26th August. It attracted many active athletes who wanted to compete in their own. Simon Lyell from Fitnance did a really good job that he finished in 5th place in his age category, and in 19th place in overall. Well done to all the competitors and we will see better results next year!

National Cross Country Championships

2012 National Cross Country Championships

2012 National Cross Country Championships held at Oakbank Racecourse, Adelaide finished on August 25th. Congratulations to all the competitors especially to Patrick Tiernan from Fitnance. Patrick's finishing time was 27 minutes and 39 seconds. This placed him 1st in group under 20 men, which was a great job, keep it up!

Good effort Jets

Q-CUP

Norths Devils

30

Ipswich Jets

16

Tries: Daniel Ogden 4, Joel Bailey, Keiran English
Conversions: Joel Bailey 3

Tries: Ramon Filipine, Luke Walker, Tyson Lofipo
Conversions: Brendon Lindsay 2

FOGS

Norths Devils

28

Ipswich Jets

30

Tries: Matt Brown, Sam Martin, Sam Broomhall, Ryan Hansen, Dominic Biondi
Conversions: Ryan Hansen 3, Luke Samoa

Tries: Tuu Maori 2, Trivendra Naidu, Luke Pollock, Jo Mika, Michael Garvey
Conversions: Khan Ahwang 3

COLTS

Norths Devils

48

Ipswich Jets

10

Tries: Michael Lucas 4, Tom Murray, Brett Greinke, Chris Neuendorf, Jayden Sheck, Richie Tuala
Conversions: Mandy Lui 6

Tries: Lorenzo Vogel, Tasi Tasi
Conversions: Sam Parcell

Well done

Well done to everyone who finished the Yeppoon half iron-man! All Fitnance members completed the whole event with great results!

Brenda Cronin

Gender: Female

Category: 25-29 years

Finish time: 06:24:12 (HH:MM:SS)

Category position: 12

Fiona Graham

Gender: Female

Category: 30-34 years

Finish time: 05:41:01

Category position: 17

Toby Beard

Gender: Male

Category: 35-39 years

Finish time: 05:01:57

Category position: 44

Karla Drinkwater

Gender: Female

Category: 25-29 years

Finish time: 05:37:45

Category position: 6

Mark Bradford

Gender: Male

Category: 35-39 years

Finish time: 06:26:29

Category position: 94

Good work Jets! Well done and keep the spirit up!

Q-CUP

Ipswich Jets

30

Redcliffe Dolphins

18

Tries: Ramon Filipine, Brendan Marshall, Jarrod McInally 2, Ian Lacey, Sam Martin
Conversions: Brendon Lindsay 3

Tries: Liam Georgetown, Aaron Whitchurch, Nick Slyney
Conversions: Liam Georgetown 3

COLTS

Ipswich Jets

6

Redcliffe Dolphins

46

Tries: Ben Apelu
Conversions: Sam Parcell

Tries: Dwayne Duncan 3, Harley Aiono 3, Oliver Regan, Tom Opacic
Conversions: Ben Cook 7

Fitnance at Olympics

With the London 2012 Olympics finished, we would like to congratulate all the athletes that has competed in this major international event.

Another congratulations to Dave Smith, Mel Schlanger, Chris Wright, Jayden Hadler, Ryan Napolean, Melinda Mcleod, Kenrick Monk, Alana Boyd and all other Fitnance Olympians for the excellent performances. Hope you all enjoyed your Olympic adventure and we hope to see more of everyone performing again for Australia in the near future!

The 2012 Sun-Herald City2Surf

The 2012 Sun-Herald City2Surf!

Congratulations to all the finishers who participated in City2Surf yesterday! Great effort from Michael Zirbel, Chris Weier, Paul Leitch, Craig O’Connell and Pen Pusher from Fitnance who completed the course. City2Surf is a fun course attracting both serious and casual runners. It had a total distance of 14km starting from Sydney's CBD and finishing at the southern end of Bondi Pavilion. The toughest part of this course was to go up "Heartbreak Hill" at the halfway mark, which was easy for the Fitnance crew.

Fitnance Students Shine at the Olympics

Well done to Mel Schlanger who is bringing home gold after a win in the woman's 4x100m freestyle relay! Schlanger showed great poise to anchor the team home and swim the fastest time for Australia.

Mel Schlanger (Pictured far left) with her 4x100m free winning team mates

Kendrick Monk clocked his fasted time this year to qualify 7th for the semi finals of the Men's 200m freestyle. The semi finals is the furthest Monk has made it in the Olympics, so this was a fantastic effort. Unfortunately Monk qualified 13th fastest overall, therefore will not be competing in the final. Great effort Kendrick!

Congratulations to Ryan Napoleon who made it to the final for the men's 400m freestyle. Ryan came 8th in the final after huge swims in the heat and semi finals. Well done Ryan!

Finally Sharleen Stratton placed well in the woman's 3m synchronised diving event overnight. The Aussie pair placed 5th overall in a very strong field. Congratulations to Sharleen and good luck in the individual 3m event.

Gabby Nance Success at U21 national hockey Carnival

At just 17 years old, Gabby Nance has just competed in the national under 21 carnival for South Australia.The tournament, which was held in Adelaide, hosted the nations best up and coming players. After making it as a shadow for the Queensland team, she was drafted to compete with the South Australians. South Australia came second in the tournament after losing to NSW 1-3 in the grand final. Gabby is now back completing her cert.3 in fitness through Fitnance! Well Done Gabby and best of luck for the future!

Gabby in action: handling the ball for South Australia

Congratulations

Congratulations Sue for qualifying for the 5th Washington's Strongest Apple - America's Strongest Women Competition 2012. Trials were held on the 2nd of June.

The training for this contest was harder than the 2011 Strongest Woman contest in which Sue was a runner up. Sue took the title of Washington's strongest middle-weight woman which qualified her for the America's Strongest Woman competition. She qualified for the event with the following results;

- 225kg yoke run over 25 metres - 27 seconds
- 130kg deadlift (no straps) - 12 reps in 60 seconds
- 65kg a hand farmers walk over 50 metres - 54 seconds 9hand implements were tough)
- 28kg kettle bell clean and press - 14 reps in 60 seconds
- 50, 60, 70 and 80kg keg load to 1.3 metre platform (standing) - 3 kegs in 30 seconds (failed loading 80kg).

Many thanks to Sue's sponsors;

Gentec Nutrition - Nick Jones and Ang Tsiougus for amazing supplements and ongoing support.
Fitnance - for ongoing use of their training facility
Simon Colley and Ty Johns from Pride Personal Training

Well done

Well done Sarah Richmond for coming 4th in her age group in the Dambuster Triathlon held yesterday. This was enough to get her to the World Championships being held in Aukland in October. Best of luck!

Well Done Women's Roar!!

A special congratulations from us here at Fitnance to Brooke Spence and the rest of the Women's Brisbane Roar team for qualifying for the W-League Grand Finals. The Brisbane team beat Sydney FC in the semis on Sunday to advance and we would like to wish them all the best in the the finals as they face Canberra United.