Welcome to the Lorne Surf Life Saving Club, home to the world's largest open water swim, the Lorne Pier to Pub.

We are one of Australia's proudest surf life saving clubs - providing voluntary patrols of the Lorne surf beach in Summer so that swimmers and surfers can enjoy the ocean and surf safely and enjoy their holidays.

Results are here online

Australia’s best surf swimmers, celebrities, politicians, and recreational athletes, of all ages and abilities gathered for a weekend of participation and competition, fun and fitness at the 2008 nib Lorne Mountain to Surf and Pier to Pub event.

High temperatures and testing conditions for this year’s run didn’t stop Olympic distance runner Georgie Clarke and international duathlete James Attard from taking out the 26th edition of the nib Lorne Mountain to Surf event.

The action continued as more than 20,000 spectators lined Lorne's foreshore for the 28th edition of the nib Lorne Pier to Pub on Saturday.

The winner in the men's event, 20-year-old Sydneysider Josh Minogue, took 13 minutes and 14 seconds to cover the 1.2-kilometre course, almost three minutes outside the race record. Minogue finished ahead of Colac's Tristan Read with Leigh Ryan, who also won the junior boy's category, third across the line.

In a tight sprint for the finish, Melbourne's Ebony Ebenwaldner continued her impressive run in this season's open water swims, beating six-time Pier to Pub winner Naantali Marshall to win the women's race. Albert Park's Annie McKenna finished third.

A summer sporting institution in Victoria, the nib Lorne Pier to Pub has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the 1970s, when members of the Lorne Surf Life Saving Club dared each other to dive from the pier, race through Louttit Bay and finish by body-surfing the waves onto the Lorne foreshore, before enjoying a few beers at the Lorne Pub.

The race entry system has some new features

All competitors now have a race history at least back to 2002. Our online results extend back to 2002. We have a cool matching process, which matches entries in previous years to the current year, well we think its cool. It matches present and past results based on name and a variety of other factors like address etc. Whilst this is technically brilliant it doesn't always work. This can happen where enough details are different between two addresses or phone numbers etc. So if you find that there are some missing results drop us a line p2p@lornesurfclub.com.au and we will see if we can find the missing data.

While we only have result back to 2002 we are looking at how we capture all of the results prior to 2002 and get them online.

At last, you can change your password. And we have added in some other little bits and bobs, like wave times and results for the overall run and swim plus the run to swim.

The race system is our principal way of staying in touch. Use it to change your contact details and we can stay in touch

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