REHOBOTH BEACH — There definitely will be no shortage of lifeguards on Rehoboth Beach July 7. More than 300 lifeguards from Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia will gather to compete in intense athletic events in the ocean and sand as part of the annual United States Lifesaving Association’s (USLA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships.

Competition will begin at 10 a.m. with the 2K beach run event, a race on hard sand. All competitions will take place on the beach between Baltimore and Maryland avenues. The public is invited to come cheer on the athletes.

The top four finishers in each of the sanctioned events will qualify to compete in USLA’s National Championships August 4-7 in South Padre Island, Texas.

Events include run, swim, and rescue competitions in individual and team categories. A couple of the more distinctive competitions include the landline rescue race, in which participants include a “victim,” rescuer, and two landline pullers, and beach flags, a beach version of musical chairs in which athletes, who begin by lying face down in the sand, are eliminated one by one as they race between “flags” 20 meters away. Beach flag heats will begin at noon.