We were required to carry a 340kg (750lb) yoke over a distance of 12.5 meters, then put it down, turn around and walk back to the start line for a total of 25 meters. As usual, the yoke exacted a heavy toll on the athletes with less than half of the field completing this event.

Ettiene won his second event out of three with Dave close behind and me in third. The only other guys to go the distance were Hennie, Johan and Stephan. Ettiene didn't run away with this one as Dave was only one second behind, though. It was very close.

The results of the yoke walk are graphed below. As you can see, a full seven guys had trouble here.

The results of the yoke walk affected the overall point standings as follows:

The first thing that happened was that Ettiene increased his lead over second-placed Johan significantly. Dave and I moved up into third and fourth places. Hennie moved up two places from 10th to 8th. The other guys that gained here were Jason, moving up one place into 10th and Stephan moved up one spot into 5th. This event cost Koffie badly, moving him down from third into sixth. The other guys to lose positions here were Willem and Marthinus.

Here's some pics of the yoke walk. As before, clicking on the thumbnails takes you to the full-sized pictures. Unfortunately I don't have more pictures.

 

	Hennie did very well on the yoke.		I had a good run, moving me up into fourth position.
	Dave starting his very good run.		Koffie battled on the yoke this day.
	Johan kept second position but lost points here.