Surf Lifesaving: Papamoa schoolboy's stunning win

Papamoa schoolboy Kodi Harman has stunned his senior rivals on the second day of the national surf lifesaving championships in Mount Maunganui, winning the open men's beach sprint.
The Mount College 16-year-old beat home some of the stars of the sport, including three-time winner Paul Cracroft-Wilson (Fitzroy) and defending champion Morgan Foster.
A jubilant Harman - who faded to fourth in the under-19 final minutes later - fought hard to get his breath back as he contemplated his achievement.
"I wouldn't trade this for anything - I didn't really target any particular race but it just happened the open final fell first on the programme," Harman said.  "I'm so stoked, even though I was only operated at about 80 percent in the under-19 final because I was so tired."
Harman is armanbelieved to be the youngest-ever winner of the open beach sprint, coming just a week after breaking the Bay of Plenty secondary school 200m athletics record and a day after winning the under-19 beach flags at the nationals.
Australian Melissa Howard won the women's beach sprint crown, getting a measure of revenge on South Brighton's Chanel Hickman, who beat the current world champion in her specialist flags event yesterday.
Papamoa had more success in the under-19 women's race, where Trudi Greig bolted home ahead of Kelly McDonnel (Kurrawa) and Mount Maunganui's Karina Radley.
Toby Harris (Wainui) won a highly-charged under-19 race from Papamoa's Jordan Hills and South Brighton's James Bishop, while Jessica Lay (Mount) and Josh Pickering-Ross (Red Beach) took out the under-16 titles.
Organisers of the championships decided to continue with competition today as the threat of a tsunami from an earthquake in Japan receded.
SLSNZ spokesman Nathan Hight said his organisation had been working through the night, monitoring reports from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, and had several trained specialists on the beach giving advice.
"We've been in constant contact with the Ministry of Civil Defence and they've advised us that it's a water-based threat rather than a land-based threat in the Tauranga area," Hight said.
"In agreement with them, we've decided to proceed with the beach events this morning and we're hopeful of getting back to the water events later in the day when the all-clear is given.
"As always, the safety of our athletes is our main priority and we're encouraging our members to keep out of the water for now."
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council reported that waves had hit New Zealand shores this morning but only at a height of just 15cm.
Civil Defence this morning downgraded a tsunami warning to a marine threat and minor land threat for coastal areas between Northland and the Bay of Plenty and the Chatham Islands.
It's a case of deju vu for local surf officials, after last year's under-14 championships were also disrupted by a Tsunami warning after an earthquake in Chile.