Warning ignored

Press, 11 February 1981, Page 25

Warning ignored

PA Rotorua : A Dunedin rubbish collector,' I Phillip Rush, ignored a suspen-, ision threat to make a clean' sweep of the Mount Cook Lines, super-swim series when he easilv' won an 18km race on Lake Ro-1 toma. near Rotorua. I Rush's time of 4hrs 9min was' 21 minutes faster than the sec-1, ond place-getter. Kristine Carr,:, aged 21, of Auckland. Third was 15-year-dld Elizabeth!. Horner, of Christchurch, in 4hrsi45min. 1 Belinda Shields, of Auckland, was fourth, and Allan Vincent, : of Upper Hutt, was fifth. ; Rush, aged 17. who won the two other races in the series at 1 Auckland and Dunedin, decided i

■to ignore a telegram from the ' New Zealand Marathon Swim- . ming Council, warning hint that participation in the Lake Kotow, a event would cause his suspension ' from competition organised by I the council. I The super-swim series has i I been promoted by the New Zea-! (land Endurance Swimming! 'Society, a breakaway body’ set up! (after dissatisfaction among some; ; marathon swimmers about the I | way the marathon council was I being run. Rush said after Friday's I swim that he was pot worried I about the suspension threat. I “I want to swim for both the j Marathon Council and the Endurance Society,” he said. I