Oct 13th, 2019
A small group of junior paddlers and one adult paddler made the trip to Northampton to experience a different form of racing.

The weather was atrocious with constant rain all day long you didn’t need to paddle to be wet, thank you to those that stood on the bank and watched. Everyone enjoyed a great day out and learnt some new skills to put into practise at home.

Congratulations to Xav and Jack who were both placed in their age categories.

 A photo of how not to do it.

 Sept 28th, 2019
This year saw Southampton Canoe Club host the Hasler final for the first time. The top clubs from all around the country gathered at Faithorne Manor to compete for the Hasler trophy. Crews either raced K1 or K2 over 4,8 or 12 miles depending on division. The junior members were also represented with under 10 and 12 Lightning paddlers competing.

The weather was kind to us with the sun coming out for the day, 475 entries were received resulting in some fast and exciting racing. Great to see some medals going to the home team racing on their home water. Southampton CC came 9th overall, a great result. Congratulations to Wey KC winning the event.

Thank you to all the clubs that came and took part with clubs travelling from as far as Scotland to attend. Southampton Canoe Club would also like to thank Faithorne Manor for allowing them to host the event.

Southampton CC had a great weekend racing ath the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham,where our athletes were competing for National Medals in Junior, Senior and Masters events.

We came away with a big hall of bling, with several notable performances; Xav Hinves came home as U16 1000m K1 and K2 Champion, Emily Hewitt following up on her international success taking both 200m and 500m Ladies C1 Gold and the Masters crew of Kent, Butt Hinves and Grimsey took the O34/44 500m K4 title. Many other paddlers achieved medals or personal bests, showing that our training is working and that we have peaked at about the right time. Saturdays weather ranged from extremely challenging through to perfect racing conditions, with one of our boats sinking on the course- we have learnt to wear decks in crewboats! The weekend was then topped of with a club BBQ on the campsite.

This was our biggest sprint team with 20 athletes competing , but thanks must go to our support crew of another 11 parents, coaches and supporters who came along to enable the club to perform.

With the Medal Tally “Win a K2 Competition” we added another 33 points to the the 22 the Masters earnt earlier this year- unfortunately this will not be enough to win this year!

Dates for next years events have been released so get them in your diaries now!

28-29 March 2020

25-26 April 2020

6-7 June 2020

4-5 July 2020

For more information about competing at the Sprints, please talk to James.

Photo Credit Melanie Wing – Thanks Mel