A multi-time winner of the Bermuda Triple Challenge has once again been crowned as its overall victor.

Spencer Butterfield competed this weekend in the individual category, where he already won three of the nine events that have taken place since its inception.

The athlete was also on winning teams in four of the three-day challenges over the years.

In this year’s event, Tom Mills, who won the overall prize in 2020, followed Mr Butterfield in second place in the Individual category.

This year’s contest attracted about 300 competitors and raised a total of approximately $30,000 for six youth-based charities.

The organisations benefiting from the annual competition are The Reading Clinic, Family Centre’s Beyond Rugby programme, ConnecTech Coding, Tomorrow’s Voices, the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies, and Knowledge Quest.

Teams and individual competitors gathered at Lagoon Park in Sandys Parish for a celebration and welcome hot meal after the tough obstacle course.

Mr Butterfield said: “There were three great courses over the weekend. The group puts on a great event.

“A lot of work goes into it with all these obstacles in three different locations. I really appreciate all the work that goes into it.

“It’s good to see some visitors coming back this year. I have competed each year they have done it. The last few years I’ve been doing it on my own.

“I maintain my fitness throughout the year. I do some running, HIIT training and some CrossFit stuff.”

Despite his experience competing in the race, Mr Butterfield said he still encountered some difficulties with the obstacles throughout the weekend.

“I had to do burpees at the keg throw; I have to figure out a way to get a better technique down on that,” he said.

“On Friday night there was a leap-frog obstacle up a hill and doing that properly is really taxing on the quads. I felt that yesterday.

“ ’Kilimanjaro’ is always tough — that’s the dunes on South Shore.”

The Bermuda Triple Challenge took place over three days, with a corresponding number of courses: the Argus Urban Foot Race on Friday, the Butterfield & Vallis Island Challenge on Saturday and the Chubb Royal Challenge on Sunday.

Competitors were faced with a series of challenging obstacles throughout and could compete individually or as members of a team.

Megan Berry and Stepanka Sprincova, were in Speedy Snails, the first team to cross the line.

Ms Sprincova said: “I have competed every year and every year is amazing.

“We do road running together and today there was a lot of running. We are in it to win it. We are very competitive.”

Ms Berry added: “That’s where we excelled today was the running. That is our advantage.

“The high stuff was really hard, getting over the walls, so we had to help each other get over but we made it up in running and swimming.”

Mr Mills noted how the event was "a different type of fitness test“ from road running, and that it offered the chance to see different places around the island.

He said: “The organisers did a really good job with the course, it worked really well. It’s a fun challenge to do.

“I last did it in 2020 and fortunately Spencer wasn’t competing for the overall prize so I won.”

He explained how some of the obstacles tested him.

“I had to do two sets of burpees because I didn’t manage to get the keg over the post and it landed on my head,” Mr Mills said.

“I also fell off the balance beams. I was just getting out of the water and couldn’t see straight — that’s my excuse.

“I got a few scratches from bear crawling along the ground under some of the tunnels.

“You have to be pretty fit. I do a lot of running.”

Rodrigue Guimeya competed for the first time this year and said he will definitely take part again next year.

“I enjoy the punishment that it gives. The challenge is very entertaining, the variety of obstacles, the variety of challenges, swimming, running, throwing … next year, I’m in.”

Jason Correia, the race director, said the event is close to attracting pre-Covid levels of competitors and money raised.

He said: “Pre-Covid we were having 100 international competitors; this year it was 30, which is up from eight last year, so it’s trending. They are mostly coming from the States.

“Local participation is largely similar to last year — we had 275 competing across the weekend and another 25 people who did individual days. We were 400 prior to Covid.

“I think it has got a very special place in the local exercise calendar and it is something we want to carry on next year.

“It’s unique in that it is functional exercise, there is team work, camaraderie, there is international participation and fundraising … it’s very dynamic.”

Philip Woollins placed third in the Individual category.

Speedy Snails were followed in the Team category by Chubb Team 1 and Involved But Not Running.

The Orcas won the fun run followed by Middle Aged Mayhem and Beauty and the Beasts.