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Sarah Wikotu (right) embraces her friend Kerrie Dick when the surprise podium party is revealed. Dick organised a “podium finish” for Wikotu after a scoring error put her in second place at the Fittest Mum Competition and denied her the podium in Auckland.
Sarah Wikotu spent a year sweating out her grief with hard training to win the Fittest Mum Competition in honour of her murdered friend, only to be denied her podium victory through a scoring error. Not prepared to let it slide, her best friends secretly rallied the Blenheim Crossfit community together to give Wikotu the podium finish she deserved.