Category: Sprint Racing

Cheshunt Regatta (14 May 2017)

14/5/2017

There was a good turnout of Stortford paddlers for the first of this year's local regattas, hosted by HYM-COPS at Herts Young Mariners Base, Cheshunt. The team brought home 7 gold medals, 3 silvers and a bronze.

u10 Boys: Blake Wilby 1st
u12 Girls: Eilidh White 1st
u14 Girls: Kaitie Owen 1st
u14 Boys: Connor Higgins 3rd, Pablo Blanco 5th, James Sellstrom 6th
u16 Girls: Emilia Boylan 1st
u16 Boys: Murdo White 2nd, Euan Caton 5th, James Daly 8th, Luke Sellstrom 9th, Luis Blanco 10th
u18 Girls: Lexie White 1st
Senior Ladies: Catherine Robinson 1st, Rosemary Kippen 2nd
Senior Men: Wayne Stevens 1st, Will Innes-Taylor 2nd

Murdo and Lexie were respectively the fastest Stortford male and female paddlers over both the 500m and 200m distances. Connor, Emilia and Kaitie achieved particularly pleasing times.

A special mention should be made of new members Will and Rosemary who enthusiastically joined in the competition despite this being their first experience of paddling ruddered K1s.

The full results of the event can be found on the FRA website.
There are more photos in Angela's Flickr album.

B. Stortford Regatta (11 Sep 2016)

12/9/2016

The competitors and spectators at the Stortford Regatta were blessed with a warm and dry day. The 46 competitors were drawn chiefly from BSCC, Chelmsford and HYM-COPS, but it was pleasing to see a few entries from Ealing CC and Leaside CC as well.

The 500m and 200m K1 heats were followed by K2 races over 500m and 2000m.

u10 Girls - Eilidh White (gold), Gemma Beazley (silver), Ryewin Bridger (bronze)
u10 Boys - Jack Ward (gold), Hudson Owers (silver)
u12 Girls - Rosie Whittington (gold)
u12 Boys - Luppi Edward (4th), James Sellstrom (5th)
u14 Girls - Emilia Boylan (silver), Yazmin Layzell (bronze), Francesca Luppi (4th)
u14 Boys - Murdo White (gold), Connor Higgins (4th), William Rowe (5th), James Daly (6th), Luis Blanco (7th), Luke Sellstrom (8th)
u16 Girls - Lexie White (gold), Isabelle Crawford (bronze), Jessica Gaynor (4th)
u16 Boys - Oscar Toomey (bronze), Euan Caton (4th), Joey Xiang (7th), Ritchie Conquest (9th)
u23 Ladies - Catherine Robinson (gold)
u35 Ladies - Melanie Bennett (gold), Siobahn Lathan (silver)
u35 Men - Josh Young (gold)
Paddleability - Catheine Robinson (bronze)
See the full regatta results on the FRA website.

As well as good racing and good weather, the BBQ ran all day and there was a spectacular range of cakes for sale.

Many thanks go to everyone who helped out on the day, including organiser Danny Beazley, timekeepers Ant Wright, Mike Toomey, Chris Sze, Malcolm Duckworth, on-water safety Jacque & Deborah Cayford, BBQ chefs Dave Cayford and Brian Owen, and to Charlotte Gurney and the ladies of the Social Committee for the rest of the the refreshments. Thanks also to Charlotte for helping Angela with the results. Apologies to anyone not named!

GB Paddler Noah Dembele joined us to present the awards for the day and also the awards for the Summer Series.

There were Series wins for:

Ryewin Bridger (u10 Girls)
Hudson Owers (12 Boys)
Catherine Robinson (u23 Ladies)

A second place Series medal for:

Yazmin Layzell (u14 Girls)

And Series 3rds for:

Emilia Boylan (u14 Girls)
Connor Higgins (u14 Boys)

See the full list of Series awards for 2016 on the FRA website.

There are more photos in Angela's flickr album, and (for FB friends of Chris Sze) Chris's FaceBook album.

Leaside Regatta (7 Aug 2016)

7/8/2016

Five Stortford paddlers went to the Sprint Regatta at Leaside and all won medals, based on their performance over 500m and 200m distances.

u14 Boys - Toby Booth, Gold
u14 Girls - Yazmin Layzell, Silver
u10 Boys - Harry Betts, Gold & Hudson Owers, Silver
u23 Men - Connor Mumford, Bronze

The full Regatta results are online, a set of photos, and also the results of the series to date. We will be hosting the final Regatta in the series at Stortford on 11th September - see event details.

Cheshunt HYMB Regatta (15 May 2016)

19/5/2016

A small group of Stortford paddlers went to Herts Young Mariners Base to take part in the second FRA Sprint Regatta of the Summer Series. The 500m K1 races were held on the river, and then the paddlers transferred to the lake for the 200m K1s.

Gold medals were won by Catherine and Rywin in their respective classes, and Ryewin also made a big improvement to her personal best 500m time. Yazmin was the fastest Stortford paddler and took silver in the u14 Girls class, in which Emilia also won bronze.

After the lunch break some of the group formed mixed crews with other clubs in the K4s. Connor and Emilia were able to finish the afternoon dry, while Alex and Kaitie's crew were not so lucky.

The full results can be seen on the Summer Series Results page of the FRA website, together with a table of the points accumulated so far towards the end-of-series trophies.

Photos from the event can be seen on Flickr,

Chelmsford Regatta (23 Apr 2016)

23/4/2016

Seven Stortford paddlers represented the club at the opening event of the Summer Series of local regattas. The medals for the day were based on the results of the 500m and 200m K1 races, and all of the team completed these, despite a bout of icy rain before the final 200m event.

The lunch break was followed by the K2 200m races - Jacque stepped in to partner new club member Alex who had not tried a K2 before, but who acquitted himself very well indeed, and even had enough energy left for the final event, a 3000m K1 dash.

See the full regatta results on the FRA website, and a few photos in Angela's Flickr album.

Bishops Stortford Regatta (27 Sep 2015)

29/9/2015

The last of the summer's regattas took place at Bishops Stortford on Sunday. The club played host to visiting teams from Chelmsford, Ealing, Herts Young Mariners and Viking. Together with a good turnout from the home team, there were a total of 59 competitors.
The 500m K1 heats were followed by the 200m heats. During the lunch break, crews were formed for K2 races, which took place over 500m and 2000m.
Cllr Daniel Abbott, Mayor of Bishops Stortford dropped by briefly to encourage the young competitors, but was unfortunately unable to stay for the prizegiving as planned - however, deputy Mayor Cllr Colin Woodward kindly stepped into the breech at short notice.

Stortford results:

u10 Girls -
Eilidh White 1st, Rosie Whittington 2nd,
Gemma Beazley 3rd, Amelia Smith 4th,
Thalia Roy 5th

u10 Boys -
Jack Ward 2nd

u12 Girls -
Sascha Roy 2nd

u12 Boys -
Toby Booth 1st, William Rowe 4th,
Calum Leader 5th, Connor Higgins 7th,
Ollie Brunt 11th

u14 Girls -
Yazmin Layzell 4th, Elimia Boylan 5th,
Jessica Gaynor 6th

u14 Boys -
Murdo White 1st, David Gurney 4th,
Euan Caton 7th, Charlie Brunt =9th,
Nicholas Parker 11th, Ben Goldthorpe 13th

u16 Girls -
Lexie White 1st

u16 Boys -
Oscar Toomey 3rd, Luke Bailey 6th

Senior Men -
Wayne Stevens 2nd

Veteran Men -
Keith Goldthorpe 2nd

See full regatta results and photos

As this was the last of the four FRA Regattas for 2015, there were also trophies for the series class winners, including:

u10 Girls: 1st Eilidh White
u12 Boys: 2nd Toby Booth
u14 Boys: 2nd David Gurney
u16 Girls: 2nd Isabelle Gurney, 3rd Lexie White
u18 Girls: 2nd Emily Gurney
u23 Ladies: 1st Catherine Robinson

See full Summer Series results

Cheshunt Summer Series Regatta (20 Jun 2015)

25/6/2015

The results of the day's races are online - HYMB regatta results
See also the Series results so far

Eight Stortford paddlers took part in the 2nd regatta of the FRA Summer Series, held at Herts Young Mariners Base, Cheshunt. Everyone came away with a medal. A special well done goes to Ryewin, Yazmin and Jessica, who were all competing for the first time.

Nottingham Sprints (9-10 May)

15/5/2015

Eleven of Stortford's best paddlers went up to the National Watersports Centre at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, to take part in May's National Sprint Regatta, which was also the Masters National & Open Championships.

Toby Booth (pictured, receiving his certificate from Pete Moule the Chair of the Sprint Committee) did exceptionally well, winning every race that he entered. He was overall winner in K1 MiniSprint A 500m (3:03.66), and partnered paddlers from Lincoln CC for K2 500m (2:46.13), and K4 MiniSprint A/B 500m (2:36.96).

Other highlights included a 1st for Heidi White in Girls D K1 500m (2:43.70), and two silvers for Laura Warbrick paddling in Womens D K1 500m (2:35.15) and 200m (59.60). Heidi has been promoted to Girls C, and Laura to Womens C - well done to both!

Paul Surrage partnered Mel Bennett in the Men's Over-54 1000m K2 race to 3rd place (5:43:08) and a Championship Bronze medal.

The official results are online.

Toby receiving his certificate from the Chair of the Sprint Committee, Pete Moule (picture credit: Alex Booth)

Chelmsford Regatta (26 April 2015)

27/4/2015

Ten paddlers from Stortford went to the Regatta at Chelmsford. It was a well-attended event which attracted teams from Leighton Buzzard and Ealing as well as all the usual clubs. We had only managed to take one K2, but in the end this was all that was needed, as only one pair felt up to doubles after completing all the K1 heats.

The team won five medals: Golds for Toby (u12M), Isabelle (u16F), Catherine (u23F), Eilidh (u10F), and a Silver for David (u14M).

See the results of the Chelmsford Regatta and some regatta photos.

April 2015 National Sprint Regatta

13/4/2015

This weekend turned out to be another eventful Nottingham for the Bishop's Stortford Canoe Club team, made up of 13 paddlers. There were a total of 38 races that included Stortford paddlers and the races ranged across 200m, 500m and 1000m, in K1 and K2.
The weather conditions were their usual self with a very strong constant head wind, but sometimes there was some sunshine. The wind brought down times considerably.

The most notable performances came from Heidi and Ella, two of our up and coming female junior paddlers.
Ella raced in Girls C along with Izzy and Emily G. Ella and Izzy progressed to the final for the 1000m distance where Ella came 3rd with a time of 5:17:90 and Izzy came close behind with a time of 5:53:10.
Ella then came 2nd in her 200m heat and progressed to the final where she came 1st with a time of 01:01:62, 0.04 of a second in front of 2nd place.

Ella and Izzy lining up at the 1000m start line.

Heidi raced in Girls D along with Emily S. The 200m event saw Heidi coming 2nd in her heat and Emily coming 3rd. Heidi went on to come second in the final with a time of 1:03:90 and Emily S raced in Final 3 where she got a time of 1:12:30.
Ella and Heidi then teamed up in the Girls C 200m K2 and came second with a time of 55:26.

Sunday saw good progress from Ella again where she came 2nd in her 500m heat.
The wind became even worse early Sunday afternoon when Joe, Matt and Sim had their Mens B 500m heats in K1 and Ella had her 500m K1 final. The waves hit a real high and brought times to over 30 seconds higher than people's targets. Joe placed 3rd in his heat with a time of 2:25:62 with Matt just behind with a time of 2:29:33.
Ella raced in her final even though conditions worsened, but she still managed to come 4th with a time of 3:10:31
The wind affected the heat times for Mens B and so the final was cancelled and soon all C and D category races were cancelled due to the weather.
An hour later and the rest of the regatta was cancelled leaving Emily G and Izzy missing out on their K4 race with two other girls from the Sprinting Futures team and Matt and Joe missing the 5K race which meant Matt couldn't make a come back from his earlier loss to Joe.

There was also some competition over the weekend between Ricky ad Paul in the Master D K1 200m race. Ricky was able to get a time of 1:04:50, which ended up placing him slightly ahead of Paul with a time of 1:04:80. Paul also teamed up with Mel to race in the 1000m and 200m distances.

Well done to all Stortford paddlers for another long Nottingham weekend.

Download a pdf of the final April regatta results

Later that day, photos were posted on social media of a C1 500m race just before people were told not to get on the water.

C1 photos taken by: http://www.olypics.co.uk/hppapril15

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