Media Release
11 April 2013
Budding TRYathletes Achieve Record New Plymouth Sanitarium Weet-Bix TRYathlon
Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon participants at the New Plymouth event achieved a record with over 1550 local kids
aged 7 to 15 years taking part in the TRYathlon event, on 10 April, at Ngamotu Beach.
Sporting celebrities including Cameron Brown, Temepara Bailey and Maddie Dillon joined the enthusiastic local crowd at
the event by cheering the kids on and handing out Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon medals at the finish line.
Pierre van Heerden, General Manager for Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing Company, said the event was a huge success and his team were very impressed:
“The New Plymouth event was a fantastic morning, it was great to see kids giving the TRYathlon their best shot, trying
for a personal best and achieving their own record” says Mr Van Heerden.
“On behalf of the Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon, I would like to thank the local New Plymouth community for their support and
spectators for coming along to make the event special for the children involved”.
Over the past 21 years more than 240,000 New Zealand children have taken part in a Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon including New
Zealand sporting heroes, Alison Shanks, Andrea Hewitt and Sarah Walker.
The Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon holds the World Record for being the largest children’s sporting event of its kind in the
world, and will travel to thirteen cities and towns throughout New Zealand in 2013.
ENDS