Junior triathlete Kai Peters produced an excellent performance last Saturday to take second place in the boys 10-11 age group at the Kelowna Apple Triathlon in British Columbia ? one of the top junior races on the Canadian west coast.

Peters completed the 150-metre swim first in three minutes and five seconds and followed that up with a 21.37 bike over ten kilometres ? finishing the second stage in seventh.

The youngster then tackled the two-kilometre run in a time of 9.21 to finish the entire event in 35.20.

Meanwhile, promising junior triathlete David Lunn will be following in the footsteps of Flora Duffy after accepting a triathlon and academic scholarship to Kelly College in the UK where Duffy ? eighth in the Commonwealth Games triathlon earlier this year ? is currently based.

Over the past four years Lunn, who is still only 12, and like Peters is a member of the TRex Triathlon Training Programme in Bermuda, has emerged as an exciting talent and his achievements to date and future potential were recognised by Government sports grant for the 2006-2007 season.

In addition to being unbeaten in his age group in local triathlons over the past few years, Lunn has twice won the Quebec Provincial Junior Triathlon Championships and last year won the Ontario Junior Provincial Triathlon Championships in convincing fashion ? beating Ontario?s previously unbeaten Rui Xu by almost two minutes.

Lunn has notched up numerous top awards in the three triathlon disciplines of swimming, biking and running ? including winning the Primary Schools Front Street Mile this year where he narrowly missed the long-standing record by just one second.

He has also had great success in local bike races where he has dominated his age group for the past few years.

Two other members of the TRex Programme ? Isabela and Gabbie Arnold ? will be hoping to match their first place finishes in their respective age groups in a recent triathlon in Texas when they compete in the US Youth Championships in Wisconsin Mills this Sunday, a race that will no doubt provide much stiffer competition for the talented sisters.