Cambridge Winter Series canoe marathon (25 Nov 2018)

Twelve paddlers were amongst the 146 who turned out for the Winter Series marathon at Cambridge, which attracted entries from 13 clubs.

There was a record field of 25 boats in the Senior K2 class and fierce competition for the medals. Adam B & David G secured bronze which, following their silver at the previous race, makes them the current leaders in this class on series points - though it is still early in the series.

Dave H won silver in the Men's Vet race and Octavia took silver in Ladies, as well as being the first lady Vet. Eilidh & Catherine paddled doubles on the middle-distance course in the combined K2/MC2 class and found themselves up against a big turnout of top Canadian paddlers - but they did receive first K2 medals.

5 miles (4 portages):
u16 Boys K1 - Connor Higgins 7th (58:35)
Ladies K1 - Octavia Abbott 2nd (55:44)
u16 K2 - Eilidh White & Catherine Robinson 6th (1:17:03)

7 miles (4 portages):
Senior K2 - Adam Beaumont & David Gurney 3rd (59:30), Ian Abrams & Mike Panrucker 11th (1:10:10)
Senior K1 Open - Richard Winstanley 5th (1:03:40)
Vet Mens K1 - Dave Hallam 2nd (1:05:16), Mike Toomey 7th (1:12:31), Ricky White 8th (1:15:03)

The small size of Stortford's team was reflected in the overall points total for the club. B. Stortford were fourth, behind Chelmsford CC, Cambridge CC and Leighton Buzzard CC.

Full race results on the FRA website. See photos of the Stortford race in Angela's Flickr album