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Medway Marathon (23 July 2017)

25/7/2017

 
On Sunday 23rd July a team of five Bishops Stortford club members plus two guests from Hong Kong competed in the Medway Marathon.  The race starts immediately upstream of the tidal barrage on the River Medway at Allington and proceeds along the non-tidal part of the river through Maidstone and Yalding before finishing in Tonbridge.
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​​Conditions were perhaps tougher than recent years following a week of heavy rain for this 17 mile upstream race with 9 challenging portages. As well as paddling against a reasonable flow there was also a light headwind to contend with.
Despite the tough conditions Matt Parkes produced a PB of 7 minutes and 49 seconds to finish 4th in a strong Class A K1 field. 
​​Matt should take a lot of confidence going into the National Championships next weekend from his time of 2:19:36 having stayed with a group of top end Div 1 paddler's including Luke Bowyer, Oscar McCittrick and James Russell for the first third of the race before eventually being dropped at one of the tricky portages and finishing just 24 seconds off James Russell in 3rd place.
Chris Sze finished in a good 4th place in the Class B K1 race in a time of 2:49:24 ahead of Gordon Bullock (competing for Barking) who finished 9th in a time of 3:06:28 having won his group sprint finish.

Danny Beazley and James Smythe put in a solid and much improved performance from Leighton Buzzard to finish 4th in 2:20:44 in the Class A K2 race. This was 6 minutes 47 seconds slower than two years ago but considering the increased flow and the comparative lack of water fitness they can also head into the National Championships with a lot more confidence that their form is returning.
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​Our club guests, Antoni Li and Racy Leung, having only arrived in the country the evening before the race from Hong Kong finished 10th in the Class B K2 race in a time of 2:55:19.  This was particularly impressive given that this was their first race in the UK and presumably they were shattered from both the time difference and journey.    
 
All in all this was a great set of results at a very well organised race by Tonbridge Canoe Club.
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Bishops Stortford Hasler (9 July 2017)

11/7/2017

 
A total of 189 competitors took part in the second Hasler marathon to be staged at the club. Medalists from Stortford were Siobhan & Brian (gold, div 9 doubles), Ant and Ian A (silver, Div 6 doubles), David G (bronze, div 4), and Ella & Chris S (bronze div 4 doubles). Ian A also received a promotion.
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DOUBLES -
13km, 2 portages
Div 4: Ella Beatty & Chris Sze 3rd (1:05:14), M
ike Panrucker & Alasdair Bruce 4th (1:06:05), Octavia Abbott & Tim Beaver 5th (1:07:27)
Div 6: Ant Wright & Ian Abrams 2nd (1:10:49), Maria Worrall & Neil Boast 4th (1:12:38)
7km
Div 7: Yazmin Layzell & Jessica Gaynor 5th (51:17)
Div 8: Malcolm Duckworth & Gary Aldam 4th (49:49),
Jacque Cayford & Dave Cayford 6th (50:10), Paul Surrage & Richard Baker 7th (50:52), Robin Dromard & Kerstin Queeney 8th (50:54)
Div 9: Brian Owen & Siobhan Latham 1st (50:06)
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SINGLES -
19km, 6 portages
Div 2: Matt Parkes 4th (1:28:52), James Smythe (rtd)
Div 3: Josh Young 4th (1:36:03), Richard Winstanley 5th (1:36:11), Dave Hallam 6th (1:36:45)
13km, 2 portages
Div 4: David Gurney 3rd (1:06:12), Matthew Mills 6th (1:10:59)
Div 5: Mike Toomey 8th (1:13:11)
Div 5: Megan Kenny 4th (1:17:00), Lexie White 6th (1:17:40)
6.5km
Div 7: Eugene Kokorin 5th (49:01), Luke Sellstrom 16th (52:56), Emilia Boylan (rtd), 
Connor Higgins (rtd)
Div 8: Wayne Stevens 6th (53:53)
Div 9: Catherine Robinson 8th (1:03:39), Jacob Gazey 9th (1:04:00)
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The club's Lightnings were out in force and in particular dominated the u10s and Girls u12s races to make them the winning Lightning team.
LIGHTNINGS
3.5km

u12 Boys: Harry Betts 7th (19:56)
u12 Girls: Rosie Whittington 1st (19:18), Eilidh White 2nd (19:42)
u10 Boys: Lewis Williams 1st (21:16), Hudson Owers 2nd (22:35), Blake Wilby 3rd (23:12)

u10 Girls: Gemma Beazley 1st (22:16)
Stortford finished in 5th place at this event, which was won by Cambridge CC.  This was the last race of the 2017 season in the Eastern Region, and Stortford also ended the season 5th in the Eastern Region league.
See
  • the final results
  • regional league table (unconfirmed)
  • photos by Chris Worrall on Flickr and by Angela on Flickr
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Leighton Buzzard Hasler (18 Jun 2017)

11/7/2017

 
Despite a good turnout and lots of good performances, we were only 4th at Leighton Buzzard.

Well done to Octavia Abbott who was promoted to division 4, and to Neil Boast, James Daly, James Sellstrom and Kaitie Owen who were all promoted to division 7.
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DOUBLES -
19km, 6 portages
Div 2: James Smythe & Danny Beazley 3rd (1:35:19)
13km, 2 portages

Div 4: Mike Panrucker & Alasdair Bruce 4th (1:11:45)
Div 5: Octavia Abbott [& Tim Beaver NOT] 2nd (1:08:28), Ant Wright & Chris Sze 7th (1:13:05)
7km
Div 7: Kaitie Owen & Isabelle Crawford 2nd (40:49)
Div 8: Jacque Cayford & Dave Cayford 3rd (42:56), Malcolm Duckworth & Gary Aldam 4th (43:31), Paul Surrage & Richard Baker 5th (43:33)
Div 9: Brian Owen & Siobhan Latham 4th (44:36)
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SINGLES -
19km, 6 portages
Div 2: Matt Parkes 3rd (1:42:00)
13km, 2 portages
Div 4: David Gurney 3rd (1:08:29), Ella Beatty 8th (1:13:35)
Div 5: Maria Worrall 14th (1:24:15)
6.5km
Div 7: Connor Higgins 3rd (41:58), Melanie Bennett 7th (43:24), Eugene Kokorin 9th (43:51), Emilia Boylan 11th (44:04)
Div 8: Neil Boast 1st (42:37), James Daly 3rd (42:45), Judith English 10th (45:03), Wayne Stevens 13th (48:28)
Div 9: Luke Sellstrom 3rd (43:38), James Sellstrom 12th (56:12)

LIGHTNINGS
3.5km

u12 Girls: Eilidh White 2nd (20:20)
u10 Boys: Blake Wilby 3rd (28:41)

u10 Girls: Gemma Beazley 4th (25:06)
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See
  • the full results
  • photos by Angela on Flickr
  • photos by Chris Worrall on Flickr
    Tweets by @StortfordCanoe

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