In his final speech, the ILS President Mr. Alan Whelpton AM labelled the event as the ‘best ever’ Rescue Series thanks to all the lifesavers and lifeguards who have travelled from around Australia and across the world to participate. “The growing strength of the international lifesaving movement can be measured by the even nature of the competition and the fact that five of the top ten are non-Australian clubs,” he said.

In his final speech, the ILS President Mr. Alan Whelpton AM labelled the event as the ‘best ever’ Rescue Series thanks to all the lifesavers and lifeguards who have travelled from around Australia and across the world to participate. “The growing strength of the international lifesaving movement can be measured by the even nature of the competition and the fact that five of the top ten are non-Australian clubs,” he said. In conjunction with the competitions the ILS Board, Commissions and Committtees held their meetings in Geelong where it wal also decided that Rescue 2008 will be held in Germany. In the National Teams competitions Australia won the overall classification with 770 points, followed by New Zealand and South Africa. Italy took the fourth place and also won the overall pool classification. Three new World records were broken in the National Teams Championship. Sarah McLarty from the United States took more than a second of the previous record on the 200m Swimming with Obstacles in a new record time of 2’10”34. The other two records were set during the mens relay events. The German team was able to break the five year old record from the Belgian team with a time of 1’41”50 on the 4x50m Obstacle Relay. Team USA took the gold and broke the record in a time of 1’33”01. During the Masters competition, Surf Boats competition, IRB Competition and Interclub Competitions some memorable performances were done.