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Natalie Peat motivated by World Games challenge

By Stuart Whitaker
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19 Jul, 2017 09:00 PM3 mins to read

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Te Puke’s Natalie Peat is vice captain of the New Zealand surf lifesaving team competing at the World Games in Poland.

Te Puke’s Natalie Peat is vice captain of the New Zealand surf lifesaving team competing at the World Games in Poland.

Te Puke's Natalie Peat is facing a tight turnaround ahead of taking on some of the world's best surf lifesavers.

A member of the 2014 and 2016 world champion Black Fins, Peat, 22, is vice-captain of the 10-strong New Zealand team competing at the World Games in Poland that begin today.

It's been eight years since New Zealand last sent a lifesaving team to the World Games.

Also in the team are Papamoa's Jacob Hales and Madison Kidd as well as Adam Simpson from Mount Maunganui.

The 2017 World Games multisport event is taking place in Wroclaw with more than 30 sports featured.

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The lifesaving component is a pool competition only, taking place tomorrow and Saturday. New Zealand will join teams from Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland and Spain.

Now living on the Gold Coast, Peat managed a whistle-stop trip home before the team flew out of Auckland on Monday.

"We get there, then we've got three days to get over jetlag, then we're straight into it - but we've got everything for our recovery and acclimatisation sorted," she said.

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For the Southern Hemisphere athletes, the competition is outside the normal season.

"It's been a little bit different in that it's not our main rescue season at the moment, so we've had to get back into training a lot earlier and look for racing opportunities as well.

"But it's been good having a goal to aim for - it's been good motivation to get fit and fast early in the year."

Peat said she expected the major European threat to come from Italy, Germany and France.

"The Europeans are absolute animals in the pool because that's their thing. They don't have the same [beach] surf lifesaving we have here, so the main part of surf lifesaving is actually the pool side of it.

"We've been watching the results coming through from their national championships over the last couple of months, and looking at their times they are absolutely flying."

Peat will compete in the 100m manikin carry, 100m manikin tow and the 200 super lifesaver as well as the team relays.

She had competed in Europe twice before, at world championships, including in 2016 when New Zealand were world champions.

New Zealand team manager Mark Weatherall said one of the biggest challenges would be coping with the tight turnaround of travelling for 48 hours and then straight into racing
the best in the world.

The first day of racing will include the 200m obstacles, 4x50m obstacles, 100m manikin carry and 200m super lifesaver followed by the 50m manikin carry, 4x25m manikin carry, 100m manikin tow and 4x50m medley relay on Saturday.

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All events are designed to test the technique, fitness and motivation of the athletes in a real life rescue situation but in a controlled pool environment.

Peat will be back in New Zealand in October for the New Zealand Pool Rescue Championships and again in late November as a member of the Black Fins at the 2017 International Surf Rescue Challenge at Mount Maunganui.

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