The winners were the same as last year and the conditions very similar at the Sand to Surf swim at Mount Maunganui on Saturday.
Tauranga's Nathan Capp repeated his win of 12 months ago, just heading off Phillip Ryan (Auckland) with Australian Michael Shiel in third. In the elite women's race, Charlotte Webby (New Plymouth) repeated her win of 2015 and in doing so gained revenge on Steffani Gillespie, who had raise eyebrows to pip Webby at the previous swim in the series, the Legend of the Lake race on Rotorua's Blue Lake. Penny Hayes was third.
![Charlotte Webby was the first woman home in the time of 30min 23sec.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/6SXJUJJSMDGBKR5QWOWX3PRJAE.jpg?auth=aa208b4e95cee4f4a718725d815a18721c44a4a4141d8a7171d3475e0d421fa7&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Capp got home just 6sec in front of Ryan in a super-fast time of 27m 56sec minutes, with Webby winning in 30min 23sec.
"I got a good start and managed to hold him back," said Capp, who also won the Auckland Harbour Crossing round in December, and was last year's series winner.