Race Reports from the Athletes

Bridge aka GG, won a silver from her formidable performance in the 1000m. Her strength over the longer distance is incredible. She also made A finals for both her other races, with a brilliant 5th in the 500m and a 7th in the 200m. When Hartley's starts balance out her kick at the end, she will be even more of a 500m force. Watch her season!!! 

In the build up to the finals, Mike reflected on his races on his blog; " What a great day, our two races went really well, we won our K2 heat in 1:32 holding aoff a really strong German crew and then managed to secure our A-final spot with a 2nd in the semi with a time of 1:29.2 which is our new fastest time. "

Shaun Ruby's comments from his blog  "My focus has been on speed for the 200m K2 with Mike and its awesome to finally know that the training that we are doing is working and that we are ALMOST as fast as the fastest boat at the moment. While we ended up coming 4th in our 200m A final, we were only 0,3 sec off the French in 1st, 0,2 sec off the Spanish (Olympic champions) in 2nd and 0,016 behind the Danish in 3rd. Our result has given me a lot of confidence going forward, both in our ability as a combination and that our training so far is on track and we are making real progress."

We are so happy to have Jen Hodson, back from a break after the Olympics, she had a great 200m performance and narrowly missed an A final in the 200m. Nick Stubbs also drew some attention in his first international regatta as a K1 force when he placed 2nd in the 500m B final. The Louw brothers also performing at a top level, finished 4th in the tremendously competitive 200m K2 B final.