As much as Santa loves the North Pole, even he would have envied the sunny conditions at the Waverider Triathlon Club’s Swim Santa Swim event at Kailua Bay on Saturday.
Kealakehe graduate and University of Idaho swimmer Cara Jernigan was the first to finish the 1500-meter swim at 22:43. She was followed closely by her sister Kelly Jernigan at 22:47, who finished second overall.
Conner Bunnell rounded out the podium at 23:03, while Cody Ranfranz (23:14) and Jim Winegarner (23:19) finished fourth and fifth, respectivley.
In the Keiki 500-meter swim, Avan Becerra took home top honors in 5:07.
Keiki 500-meter swim
Avan Becerra 5:07.42
Mehana Resetnikov 5:13.40
Kona Resetnikov 5:27.64
Ethan Becerra 5:37.39
Nathan Grocholski 5:44.72
Lilo Fyrileiv 3:44.35 (3rd Buoy)
1500-meter
Bib Time Name
49 22:43.1 1 Cara Jernigan
48 22:47.3 2 Kelly Jernigan
43 23:03.0 3 Conner Bunnell
41 23:14.2 4 Cody Ranfranz
13 23:19.1 5 Jim Winegarner
59 23:26.0 6 Tomo Nomura
1 23:36.7 7 Jim McCleery
10 24:08.5 8 Marissa Bryant-Manago
14 24:35.2 9 Glee Jewell
46 25:11.2 10 James Resor
30 25:41.9 11 Richard Adcock
45 25:44.4 12 Lindsay Resetnikov
32 25:48.1 13 Steve Murray
58 25:50.7 14 Don Baldassan
8 25:54.7 15 Lorraine Montgomery
7 26:00.5 16 Bob Smith
22 26:03.8 17 Denise Boatwright
4 26:05.6 18 Lance Mitchell
37 26:07.8 19 Kevin Moats
56 26:11.1 20 Keoni Smith
28 26:16.4 21 Rob Murray
12 26:22.4 22 Keola Oka
39 26:29.3 23 Sadie Holmes
38 28:00.1 24 Ben Mayer
16 28:29.6 25 Dan Gampon
40 28:31.6 26 Lucy Panko
42 28:55.5 27 Matthew Dykes
53 29:19.0 28 Charlie Becerra
20 29:43.4 29 Lloyd Talbert
52 29:46.0 30 Nate Grocholski
21 29:56.2 31 Susannah Mistr
11 30:01.7 32 Hugh Broughton
44 30:52.5 33 James Young
55 31:10.1 34 John Ferdico
24 32:03.2 35 Ray Ashworth
60 33:15.8 36 Don Baldassan
33 33:44.7 37 Mark Reumann
31 33:49.2 38 Ari Mench
3 34:16.0 39 Linda Hallinger
17 34:25.8 40 Tiffany Chow
2 34:33.6 41 Daniel Piccuta
47 34:36.9 42 Kelly Hudik
54 36:17.7 43 John Chico
50 36:19.6 44 Susannah Roy
35 36:23.2 45 Meggie Olson
34 36:26.2 46 Jennifer Babcock
57 37:12.1 47 Jeffrey Smith
18 39:17.2 48 John Hughes
26 39:47.8 49 Dave Johnson
36 40:03.6 50 Randall Farleigh
35 40:36.2 51 Rob Babcock
6 40:45.8 52 Vicki Pendergass
51 40:48.6 53 Ian Delgato
27 43:23.1 54 Dean Baldwin
60 43:32.4 55 Sal Salmi
5 44:01.8 56 Wendy Clark
29 49:45.1 57 Angela Lee
9 52:32.8 58 Lisa Bryant