World Marathon Championships & Tour de Gudena

Congratulations to Harriet Farish for her 10th place - sorry no further details yet as no results seem to be on the Marathon website.

Congratulations also to Rich Golder on his 4th place at Gudena in Denmark. Go to the Marathon website (see sidebar) for report and more details. Richard has moved closer to Burton on Trent and so will be racing for them in the future, but as a valued member and past NKC Chairman, we still offer him our wishes for his continued success next season.

World Cups II

Meanwhile at Crestuma in Portugal, Harriet Farish (in K2 with Nicola Taylor - Elmbridge ) came 4th out of 7 starters, 4 min 42 sec down on the winners. A good British Result.

She races again next weekend as part of the GB team to the IV Castilla y Leon K4 International Grand Prix, at Valladolid and Sanabria, Spain.

We wish her success again.

Champions

While Nottingham Marathon was going on, some NKC members were doing great things elsewhere:

At the European Sprint Championships in Milan ...

Tim Brabants - added yet another title to his impressive array - European Men's K1 1000 metre Champion (Report http://www.bcu.org.uk/bcu/bcu-newsitem.aspx?NewsItemId=864)
Lucy Wainwright - became European Women's K1 200 metre Champion (Report http://www.bcu.org.uk/bcu/bcu-newsitem.aspx?NewsItemId=865)
Hayleigh Mason -was in the Women's K4 500 metre crew that came 9th (Jess Walker/ Anna Hemmings/ Rachel Cawthorn /Hayleigh Mason) and in the crew that came 4th in the Women's K2 200 metres with Rachel Cawthorne of Wey Kayak Club.
(Milan Report http://worldclass-canoeing.org.uk/wcp/wcp-newsitem.aspx?NewsItemId=586&Level1MenuItemId=2)

At Southampton Marathon Assessment Race ...

Harriet Farish - was qualifying for a place in the team to go to World Cup 1, Brandenberg, Germany 14-15 June. Where she will partner Nicky Taylor of Elmbridge Canoe Club in the Senior Women's K2.

Paul Enoch & Richard Golder - have also been selected to take part in the Senior Mens K4 Trophy Prince of Asturias at Pontevedra in Spain - 20/21 June with Jamie Mayers of Runcorn & Richard Forbes of Solihull.

Another international result from Hayleigh

Having worked out how to navigate around a confusing Spanish website, it's now possible to give a link to the most recent results from Hayleigh who came 3rd in yesterday's Senior Women's K1 race. You can download the full results at http://www.fcylp.com/fichacomp.asp?ref=238

International results

NKC Members have enjoyed considerable success in international competitions over the past few weeks. Go to the club website for links to each of them. 6 club members have competed & one been involved in coaching. http://uk.geocities.com/nottinghamkayakclub/recent/page2.html

The most outstanding is of course Tim Babants becoming European Champion in Mens K1 500 metres. He added this to the Silver medal he had already won in the 1000 metres. Lucy Wainwright paddling with Abby Coulson also managed 8th in their final

The club website also has links to the Junior World Wild Water Racing Championships where Michael Sims managed an 11th & 14th place. By far the most entertaining link is to the report from this trip where the exploits of Michael & Agent Orange in the colonies can be enjoyed. http://www.wildwater.org.uk/events/racereports/juniorworlds2007.htm

There are also links to the the World Cups Marathon in Denmark, where Hayleigh Mason, Vicky Surrage & Harriett Farish also turned in good results. Lastly there are links to the international races in Spain, where Hayleigh Mason has again been racing this weekend. It helps to be able to read Spanish & the website changes every time you look at it, but if you poke around a bit, you can find the results downloadable as pdf files.