 photo: Chris Sze Especially well done to Emilia, Neil, Jess and Kaitie, who have all been promoted. | There were some spectacular results from our team at Norwich. Emilia won Div 8 on her first outing in that class, as did new member Neil in Div 9. Neil only took up the sport 9 months ago at the age of 54! But it was the doubles crews who made this a turn-around moment in the series for Stortford. Octavia won Div 5 doubles with Nottingham CC's Tim Beaver, Little Joe and Matt took an impressive second place in a tightly-fought contest in Div 2 doubles, and there were medals in Div 4 doubles for Chris & Ricky (silver) and for David G & Isabelle (bronze), as well as bronzes for Jacque & Dave in Div 8 doubles. |
 photo: Chris Worrall |  photo: Chris Worrall |
All these great individual results brought Stortford a good second place overall against a strong contingent from hosts Norwich CC. It was a whole-team success, with just one point putting us ahead of Cambridge CC - yours perhaps?
This result still leaves us in 5th position in the Eastern Region League, but only a tantilising one point off 4th. We now just need to put in some top-class performances in the two remaining races of this season, at Leighton Buzzard in June and then our home race on 9th July, to earn our place in the Hasler Finals at Richmond in September.
Can we do it? - of course we can!
There was success for the Lightnings too - Eilidh won u12 girls, and our youngest racer Gemma continued the Beazley family's fine heritage in canoeing with a well deserved third in the u10 girls.
| DOUBLES - 21.5km, 4 portages Div 2: Joe Fitzpatrick & Matt Parkes 2nd (1:24:13), Danny Beazley [& David Duff RAF] 4th (1:27:17) 13km, 2 portages Div 4: Chris Sze & Ricky White 2nd (1:02:27), David Gurney & Isabelle Gurney 3rd (1:04:20) Div 5: Octavia Abbott [& Tim Beaver NOT] 1st (1:04:32) Div 6: Maria Worrall [& Emily Gurney LIN] 5th (1:16:40) 6.5km Div 8: Jacque Cayford & Dave Cayford 3rd (35:26), Malcolm Duckworth & Gray Aldam 4th (36:14), Kerstin Queeney & Robin Dromard 5th (37:30) Div 9: Jessica Gaynor & Kaitie Owen 1st (34:28) SINGLES - 13km, 2 portages Div 5: Euan Caton 9th (1:12:54) Div 6: Lexie White 8th (1:18:11) 6.5km Div 7: Murdo White 6th (35:12), Connor Higgins 9th (36:12) Div 8: Emilia Boylan 1st (36:13), James Daly 5th (37:30) Div 9: Neil Boast 1st (37:12), Brian Owen 5th (38:28), Siobhan Latham 10th (43:15), Catherine Robinson 12th (43:52) LIGHTNINGS 3.5km u12 Girls: Eilidh White 1st (23:40) u10 Girls: Gemma Beazley 3rd (26:54) See
|  photo: Chris Worrall  photo: Chris Worrall |
photo: Chris Worrall
