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🇿🇦 Affectionately known as "Summies"
🏆Lifesaving SA Club of the Year 2019 & 2020
🥇DHL Lifesaving SA Champs ‘21 & ‘22
🥇Reigning Eastern Cape Champions

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ORKA is looking for a salesperson who will be well paid to run their pop-up store at the Lifesaving World Champs in Port Elizabeth from 1-13 December.

You will need to be well presented, professional and have some knowledge of paddling or lifesaving gear. The ideal candidate will be a PE local with their own transport, or be willing to catch a lift from Cape Town with one of the team.

Please DM us for more information.

#orkapadles

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2017, Mount Maunganui. The team’s beachie gets injured on day one, so the pool swimmer puts her hand up for the beach run.

Sunglasses on. 😎 Lined up next to world champion Olivia Eaton. “Are you intimidated by me?”

Loved this story and so many more!😂
Episode 3 of Road to Worlds with Carmel Sadler is out on Friday. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube. Link in bio.

@carmelbillson @summerstrandsurf @marine_slsc @lifesavingsouthafrica
The Rip · Produced by @get_on_media
#RoadToWorlds #TheRip #Lifesaving

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Episode 2 of Road to Worlds - Guest Reveal:

🎙️Mandi Augustyn launching on Friday.

When I was a nipper, there was one line I always heard over the speakers at every SA Champs: “And Mandi Maritz goes onto the podium.” I still hear it now as a master. And now, I finally get to ask her about all of it.

Mandi was playing by the river opposite the Blue Water Bay clubhouse every day, so her mum signed her up for Nippers before she got into trouble in the water. She won her first carnival.

Then came six World Championships for South Africa, World Interclub sprint gold for Summerstrand in Egypt in 2010, and a medal at every Worlds she raced until 2018. The most consistent female lifesaving athlete of our generation, and she’s never been boring about it: SA sprints with her arm in a sling, SA flags gold after a boat propeller cut her femoral artery, and a Worlds flags final she nearly slept through.

This year Worlds comes to her hometown, and she’s coming out of retirement. Now as a mum, a business owner and a masters athlete.

Swipe through. Then come and hear how she stayed there.

Episode 2 is out Friday on Spotify and YouTube.

@mandi_augustyn @summerstrandsurf @lifesavingsouthafrica
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#RoadToWorlds #LifesavingSport

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Epic Vibrant Energy all over the Ocean 🌊🐳🐬🐬🏊🏼‍♀🚣🏽‍♂🌄

Malis, Paddle Skis and Swimmers 🏊🏽‍♂️ 🌊

This is what GQ can do 💪🏽 Hyping up to Lifesaving world Champs 🌊 🏊🏽‍♂️ 🇿🇦

@kingsbeach_slc @summerstrandsurf

Bring the World to GQ and Take GQ to the World.

@Swim_GQ 👇🏾

https://linktr.ee/swimgq

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Mandi Augustyn crossed the line in a world final and had no idea she’d won.

Egypt, 2010. Her first interclub Worlds. A few hours earlier, someone dived across her in the flags final and she finished fourth. Not a bad result, but not the one she came for.

So for sprints she stopped thinking about anyone else. Heat after heat, she raced the whistle and nothing else. In the final she ran the race of her life and can’t remember a second of it.

She didn’t hear her name. It didn’t click at the line. Then her teammate Jasper Mocke ran over, picked her up and told her she was world champion.

She phoned her mum and cried.

Episode 2 of Road to Worlds with Mandi Augustyn is out this Friday.

@mandi_augustyn @summerstrandsurf @lifesavingsouthafrica @ilsf_org
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#RoadToWorlds #LifesavingSport

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🇿🇦 #LWC2026 | Built by Purpose. Ready to Represent. | Nicola Harcus

For Nicola Harcus of @fishhoeksurf growth comes from knowing there is always more to learn and improve.

Nicola began lifesaving at 12 with @summerstrandsurf later moving to Woodridge and now Fish Hoek. Each club has played a part in shaping the athlete she is today.

Now in her second year studying to become a Chartered Accountant, Nicola balances her studies with training and competition - believing that staying fit and healthy helps her remain focused and productive.

This year marks her seventh time representing South Africa, and this time, she’ll do so as Captain of the Open Female Team on home soil.

“I could not be more excited to compete in our home country and show the world what South Africa has to offer! We have so many amazing athletes and so much potential in the sport. It just keeps getting better and better.”

Nicola’s journey is a reminder that growth never really stops - there is always another opportunity to learn, improve and lead by example.

They are competitors. They are volunteers. They are lifesavers. They are role models.
Built by Purpose. Ready to Represent. 🇿🇦

#BuiltByPurpose #ReadyToRepresent #LifesavingSA #LifesavingSport

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YOU HAD TO BE THERE.

Twenty-eight athletes on the Fish Hoek start line.

Open. U19. U17. U15.

One Oceanwoman race.

Swim. Run. Board. Run. Ski. Run.

The water was warm. The ocean was flat. No waves to chase, no easy metres to find.

Just a full-course of honest hard work.

It was the biggest Oceanwoman start line we’ve seen.

Will Season 3 bring another one?

With R100,000 on the table and some serious prizes from Sealand, there’s plenty of reason to find out.

You had to be there.

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Day 1 in of getting back into the water.

Saltwater and moving the body = natures GLP

Away from alter ego The Kos Monster (*Food Monster)

Less than three months to the Masters.

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#surflifesaving #worldchamps #southafrica

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🇿🇦 #LWC2026 | Built by Purpose. Ready to Represent. | Sienna Gous

For Sienna Gous, lifesaving has been part of her life since she was just five years old.

Starting as a micro nipper at @summerstrandsurf she quickly fell in love with the sport. Over the years, lifesaving has given her the opportunity to develop valuable life skills, grow in confidence and become the athlete she is today.

Now, at 16 years old, Sienna is preparing to represent South Africa for the second time. This year’s ILS Lifesaving World Championships 2026 will be especially meaningful as she competes on her home beach in Gqeberha - a place she knows well and where her lifesaving journey first began.

Reflecting on what it means to wear the green and gold, Sienna says:

“Having the privilege to wear the green and gold means I am representing not only myself, but my family, my coaches, my teammates, and everyone who has supported me in achieving this. It motivates me to work hard, compete with pride, and always give my best. I hope to inspire others to chase their dreams and show that with dedication, perseverance, and passion, anything is possible. I am looking forward to the journey ahead and keeping the South African flag flying high.”

For Sienna, representing South Africa is about honouring everyone who has supported her journey and inspiring the next generation to believe that, with dedication, perseverance and passion, anything is possible.

They are competitors. They are volunteers. They are lifesavers. They are role models.
Built by Purpose. Ready to Represent. 🇿🇦 #ReadyToRepresent #LifesavingSport #LifesavingSA #DHLLifesaving

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Training Camp – Day 7 ✅

And that’s a wrap!

We finished the week with our long-distance Iron, pushing through the canals, river, and ocean one last time. A tough final session that tested endurance, grit, and everything we’ve built throughout the week.

After all the hard work; a padel party, plenty of laughs, and some quality team bonding to end camp on the perfect note.

So proud of every athlete who showed up, embraced the challenge, and gave it their all over the past seven days. The mileage, the sore muscles, and the memories made it all worthwhile.

Until next camp… keep training, stay hungry, and enjoy the journey.

#BlueAbyss #TrainingCamp #Day7 #lifesavingsouthafrica #SurfLifesaving

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Camp day 2- Mother Nature fought us but… “You don’t rise to the occasion. You fall to the level of your training” - Archilochus

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