GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - Firefighters from Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) shone at the South African Toughest Fighter Alive (TFA-SA) competition, held in Mossel Bay on 16 and 17 September.
The TFA, hadn't taken place for two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Emile Conrad from GRDM won an overall runner-up position in the competition. For the relay event, the GRDM men's team ended in second position, beating 28 other teams.
In the events linked to age categories, the GRDM landed the following top three positions:
- Males, age 30-34: Henrich Leslie - 2nd. He came 5th overall.
- Females, age 35-39: Bonita Conrad - 2nd
- Males, age 35-39: Emile Conrad -1st
- Males, age 45-49: David van Niekerk -1st; and Petrus Jordaan - 3rd
The TFA-SA challenge is based on an international event and has become South Africa's primary fire fighter fitness challenge. Top competitors at the TFA-SA are selected to represent South Africa internationally.
According to GRDM's recently appointed chief fire officer, Deon Stoffels, that the GRDM had 16 competitors in total, including two female firefighters.
"Each one displayed inspiring courage, perseverance and grit in finishing their individual challenges as well as going all-out to ensure their respective relay team, of which we had four, performed as well as possible. The camaraderie was contagious and firefighters are already looking forward to perform even better next year in Mossel Bay," he said.
By competing in this challenge, the team demonstrated their ongoing dedication to health and fitness. The fitness level of firefighters is central to their success in containing an incident.
GRDM firefighters held their own in the TFA-SA challenge in Mossel Bay.
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