Racing

Club Time Trial – Monday evenings 6:30pm – All are welcome to join in.

Congratulations to Hafsa Kabeer on becoming U10 Lightning Champion at the National Championships at Longridge on Saturday 29th August.  It was a hard fought race with 16 starters on the backwater.  Hafsa narrowly beat Madi Barnicoat of Longridge by one tenth of a second.

 (Courtesy of Reading Post 3/9/09)

Well done to all Wokingham paddlers who took part in the event.

This year at the Sprint World Championships in Canada, Women’s C1 and C2  races featured as exhibition races. The GB Women’s canoe team consisted of our very own Sam Rippington  and her C2 partner, Lisa Suttle from Chelmsford Canoe Club.  Both put up very creditable performances in the C1 races with Sam finishing 7th in the 200m event and Lisa finishing 6th in the 500m.  However in the C2 events they really showed the competition a thing or two winning silver in the 500m and bronze in the 200m.

Well done Sam and Lisa on a brilliant set of results.

On behalf of the Committee, Club and myself I’d like to say a huge thank you to all those who helped with the Thames Valley Circuit Race. It was a great event which was extremely well attended. Your hard work and commitment was very much appreciated, not just by us but also by all the paddlers who took part.

It is always easy to be wise after the event and I realise that some things didn’t go as smoothly as they should have. So, I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone who was inconvenienced or felt that their contribution was not valued. If you have any thoughts or comments on how we could improve, please pass them on to me or any other committee member.

Many thanks
Gary Thompson
Chairman

Wokingham juniors put in some great performances at the TVC race on Sunday. It was a great day for the Jarretts with Olly promoted to Div 5 and Fraser promoted to Div 8.  Congratulations to Magnus Gregory and Ed PEarson 2nd and 3rd respectively in the U12 Boys Lightnings and also to Hafsa Kabeer first in the U10 Girls Lightnings. Further success came for Hafsa and Magnus when they came second in the U12 Hody race.

There will be a race training session on Tuesdays at 18:30 for beginners and intermediate paddlers. Please contact Brian Kelly if you are interested in attending.

The time trial is up and running again on Monday evenings – all are welcome to join in – please arrive at 18:00 so that we can start promptly at 18:30. Latest Results

Well done to Joe Foster and Jamie Boyt who took part in  the Thameside 2 marathon.

Joe came 5th and Jamie 7th.

Full results

Well done to our paddlers who took part in the Waterside ‘B’ marathon.  Placings are as follows:

• Duncan Blyth ~ Winner K1 Vets
• James Keeble & James Freemantle ~ 3rd Senior K2
• Paul Appleby & Dave Seward ~ 7th K2 Vets
• Earl Hewett & Darren Crocker ~10th K2 Vets
• Catherine Gaffard & Dominic Lucas ~ 23rd K2 Vets 
• Liz & Bob Sutherland ~ 13th Canadian Doubles

Click here for full results.

Fantastic result for Sam Rippington – first in the Ladies K1.

Well done also to Alan Freer -11th in K1 vets and to Bob and Liz Sutherland – 6th in C2.  Full results

• Hafsa Kabeer won the prize for ‘BEST VISITING JUNIOR’ in the Hare and Hounds series at Wey – results.
• Sara Kabeer (2nd ~ Girls Lightnings) and Ed Pearson (3rd ~ Boys Lightnings) were awarded medals for  last year’s West Thames Grand Prix series of events. This was a particularly splendid achievement as they only took part in two out of the four qualifying events.