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

 

 

 

Regatta Summer is here, following a breezy April regatta the sun shone in June on the band together regatta, Very Hot conditions on Saturday followed by an increasing headwind and rain on the Sunday. A strong team of eleven paddlers arrived in Nottingham plus a fantastic supporting contingent with several making their season start at this band together regatta, where paddlers of the same ability race together regardless of age, rank or on the Sunday gender. There was some really close racing and some fantastic results, with all of the Southampton Paddlers making a major final, special attention should be paid to Beth winning the Band 6 500m K1 and Jacob and Charlie winning the Band 4 1000m K2. Matt, Xav and Jack should also be congratulated on taking James into their K4 as a charity case and they helped him put in his best sprint performance for years, winning the Band 1/2 K4 500m. Fletch turned in some impressive performances with new K2 partner Kit, coping with the rolling dumbbell and has been invited to race again! It is unusual to see heats and finals in K4 events but our girls K4 saw Poppy and Beth bookended by two from Wiltshire Youth CC, one of whom Molly, had even come to train with us at our recent training camp, cruise to a sixth place in the major final in a time of 2.20. Nathaniel, Fletch, Andre and Kit crossed the line 2 seconds later – however they did win the start! It was all capped off with a great club BBQ on the campsite on Sat night and despite Jack and Matt hiding from each other for over 20 mins not understanding that one has to be the seeker a great time was had by all. Congratulations To Poppy and Beth on their promotion’s to Girls C.

Saturday 25th August was a sunny day when we arrived at Longridge with a good turnout of Southampton paddlers. The weather seem to mean that one or two people felt the need to test out how cold the water was! But we had some great results with some podium finishes: Isiah coming first in both his U10M and Hody races, Duncan 1st in Division 7 K1 and Jacob coming 2nd in Division 4. We had 3 k2 boats in Division 3, and 3 podium finishes: 1st went to Leon and Igi, 2nd to Richard Kent and Guy and third to James and Russ in what must have been a really tough race.

Well done to those receiving a promotion: Nathanial to Division 8, Duncan to Division 6, and Jacob and Russ to Division 3.

Thank you Poppy for helping me complete my first 8 mile race and I am looking forward to racing with you again at the Sprints and Pangbourne.

All the K1 races were on the Saturday meaning people were tired by the end but we had good results. Xav made all A finals in band 3, his 4th in the 1000m was his best result. I also made all the A finals in band 3 and got 3rd place in the 1000 and 200. Jack had good results in his first Boys B regatta making final 2 in band 3 for 200 and 500. Andre and Nathaniel raced the under 12 mens 200m mass start and both made it to the final and they both raced over 500m with Andre coming 3rd and Nathaniel 8th the first time he raced his cougar. Beth and Poppy also raced the 200m mass start with over 30 starters, it was a tough field but Beth made it to the 2nd race and Poppy the 3rd. It was also the first time Beth had raced her cougar and she raced her 500 heat well to make final 1 in band 6 with Poppy also racing well in the tough headwind to make final 2.

On the Sunday we had much better conditions for the K2 races. Xav and Jack teamed up to take two 3rd places in the 1000m and 500m. I paddled with paddlers from other clubs to take the win in the 500m and the 200m races. Andre and Nathaniel raced really well in the Hody races to take 2nd place in a really tight finish. Beth and Poppy paddled together well in the wobbly boat and achieved really strong times in both of their heats.

Overall it was a great weekend of racing for Sou with us coming joint 2nd in most races won over the weekend.