BOCA RATON –The U.S. Firefighter Combat Challenge Nationals were held in Fort Pierce, where Boca Raton Fire Rescue Services top female athletes Irena Elmstrom and Shelly and Sherry Griffith and members of their team competed against athletes from across the United States.
Irena placed 1st in the Co-Ed Tandem event with her partner David Bowman, a firefighter from Charlotte, N.C. In the Female Relay Irena, Sherry, Shelly, Whitney Briggs, a firefighter from Canada and Angela Bronco, a firefighter from the Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue Department, placed 2nd.
In the Female Tandem event Irena and partner Sheri Peacock, a firefighter from Greensboro, N.C., placed 3rd and in the Female Individual event, Irena placed 3rd.