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An A-grade double: Irving and Smith take out the beach sprints at lifesaving worlds

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No1 in the world ... Gisborne’s Briana Irving and Oska Smith ruled the sand in the beach sprint finals at the Lifesaving World Championships on the Gold Coast. Irving won the women’s A final and minutes later Smith won the men’s A final. Photos / Jamie Troughton, Dscribe Media

Gold in name. Gold in sand. And gold in medals. 

So the Australia-hosted 2024 Lifesaving World Championships proved for speedsters Briana Irving and Oska Smith as they pulled off a historic New Zealand, Gisborne and Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae double on Saturday. 

Irving won the women’s beach sprint A final on the Kurrawa Beach sand on Australia’s Gold Coast. 

Just minutes later,...

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