Wey Hasler Report

A great days racing.......The Wey Hasler report...

Hi all, and well done to competitors ,supporters and oraganisers for a memorable day.......The club won the day  with a maximum 240 points ........gathered from 4 K1 winners and 4 K2 crews winning...we had the luxury of another winner in a K2 crew and Rebecca Swift winning but not scoring points..!?                  Rebecca marked her return to marathon racing after a long term injury by blitzing the start of the Div 9 race and then not panicking when a couple of people stayed with her to win by 20 secs at the finish line.....She performed so well she was promoted straight to Div7  ! ( rules state that any paddler promoted 2 divisions will not score points )....well  done Rebecca and good luck next time out.             The news at the top end of the divisions was equally good. Joe Beevers won the Div 2 race with Jack Childerstone a close second......A lot of hard work goes into reaching this  standard and both should be proud of their achievement in being promoted to Division one......                 Dan James won the Div 3 race and will be joined next time by Chris Carson who continued his good form of late by winning the div 4 race by 4 minutes and duly being promoted.....                  Hot on the heels of those in Div 4 is Tom Goldsack who came second in Div5 gaining a richly deserved promotion                   Hot on the heels of Tom is Jordan Martyn who made light work of his first race in Div 6 by winning with a margin of 2 1/2 mins.......not put off by his first encounter with portages, feed back suggests Jordan some how found time for a word with supporters and fellow paddlers  on route !                    Richard Hayman Joyce stepped out of the shadow of son Joe to be promoted from Div 7 to 6 along with Ben Strickland ...Tom Turcan was promoted from Div 8 to 7...                    K2s......... congratulations go to Josh Westwood who won the Div 3/4 race with Tim Morris of Foxton canoe club....Lawrence Fortescue and Rob Harrison won Div 6 ....Jemima Young and Ellie Coyle in their first hasler race won div 7 ..having completed the DW for Cranleigh school only 3 weeks ago.                Sussana James( not to be out done by brother Dan..) and Millie Dimmock won Div 8 at their first attempt and then there was Div 9.......                Div 9 was won by Anne Skeldon and her daughter Rachel Dauncey ...which is a fine achievement in their first race in a boat together.......  second.......in a contrasting style....( the blitzgrieg start was worth the entry price alone !! ) was Sam Bicknell and Perry Lewis also in their first race in a boat . together.....               Promotions from the K2 races have not been announced  yet so good luck to you all....              Finally ,as mentioned at the start ,many thanks go to the organisers and helpers on the day and all those that just turned up to support.......it made for a memorable day              Paul Thompson (marathon team leader)