The final! The last contest of the 2013 season. The sun shone all day, and over 700 paddlers from 32 clubs gathered from across the country to compete for this historic and prestigious trophy. Thanks to Reading who organised the programme which worked so well, and ran an excellent event overall. Our club has…
It was a good day, thank you everyone for coming and providing such great competition all round. Thank you to those competitors in both sets of races who sacrificed their race to stop and help those who capsized; and of course, thank you to all our volunteers; without them the event could not happen. …
Congratulations to the following Elmbridge paddlers in their performance at the Worlds, especially to our Junior Womens K2 who came 2nd :- Ed Rutherford Senior Men K1- 5th Bruce Jones junior Men K1- 21st Sam Rees- Clark Junior Womens K1 – 4th Amy Ward & Sam Rees – Clark Junior Womens K2- 2nd A…
13 Elmbridge paddlers attended the annual Henley Hasler which tends to be held a week or two before the Hasler Finals, making it a great preparation race. The competition was mainly from the local clubs Reading, Banbury and Longridge. The majority of our paddlers finished their races with our star performer being Sean Marken Div…
JUNIOR K1 500M SPRINT WELLAND, CANADA 2013
REBEKA SIMON
SILVER
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SENIOR 5K SPRINT DUISBURG, GERMANY 2013
EDWARD RUTHERFORD
BRONZE
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JUNIOR K2 MARATHON COPENHAGEN 2013
AMY WARD & SAMANTHA REES-CLARK
SILVER
2– 1sts 3– 2nds 2– 3rds and 2 promotions .. well done ! This was the first Hasler Marathon of the 2013-14 season. and also the one of the last chances to practice before the Final of the 2012-13 season.(Oct. 6th at Reading) The southern region paddlers were certainly out in force and…
The Olympic Hopes Regatta takes place this Friday 13- 15 September. Good luck to all the GB Team and Elise Piercy one of our Junior Girls.
This event was unusually crowded , over 200 competitors, on a very small river. Tonbridge organisers were stretched to the limit and had to resort to splitting up all singles starts but Divs I,2 and 3 into two: juniors first, followed by seniors, afterwards amalgamating them again for the results. A further strategy was to…
Congratulations to the following Elmbridge paddlers who have been selected for the World Marathon Championship 2013 in Copenhagen.
Senior Men K1 Ed Rutherford
Junior Ladies K1 & K2 Amy Ward
Junior Mens K1 Bruce Jones
Congratulations to our Elmbridge paddlers, Ed Rutherford on his Bronze medal in the 5000m K1 and Lani Belcher and Louisa Sawers K4 1st place in the B final 500m.
A full write up on the weekend can be found on GB Canoeing site