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
