The weather behaved itself on Sunday during the XXI Travesía a Nado de la Bahía de La Herradura, which concluded the Circuito Provincial de Travesía.

All told, 220 swimmers participated and a team of organisers was on the ball from the outset, consisting of people from the Provincial Council and local Town Hall.

The lanes had to be set up and everybody had to be organised into their categories ready to take the starting line.

The competition also counted on the collaboration of Náutica Élite and dozens of support volunteers on land and in the water in kayaks or other type of craft, just in case a swimmer needed assistance.

Yet this year required further measures, such as taking the temperature of each swimmer before they set off and at the other end, there was somebody to hand each competitor a surgical mask.

Swimmers in their categories set off from Peña Parda every two or three minutes, striking out for the finishing line on La Caleta. Things weren’t easy for them because there was a easterly current running  meaning that they had to swim against it at least half of the way.

Winners for each Category:

Junior: Candela Oliva García (CDU Natación Granada) and Jorge Rodríguez Barranquero (CN Mijas)

Sénior: María Ramírez Rodríguez (CD Swin Granada) and Luis Ríos Puebla (CD. Triclub Babyschool)

Máster 30: Patricia García Gutiérrez (Corcher@s) and Francisco Lara Aguilar (Sobre2ruedas Bikes)

Máster 40: Raquel Úbeda Fernández and Germán Rodríguez García (Erdelagua)

Máster 50: María Cuenca-Romero Oviedo (CD Swim Granada) and Alejandro Castaño Chacón (CN Fuengirola)

Máster 60: Mary Rose Cross (CD Almijara) and Juan Martín Blanco (RCN Motril)

Local: Kimberley Harwood and Miguel Ángel Benítez

Mayores: María Angustias Mata Álvarez and Ignacio Sánchez

(News: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: JM de H.)