Oceania Canoe Slalom Championships 2010

Today the Oceania Canoe Kayak Championships started with the Qualification race. There is heaps of people racing with large international field with 194 competitors from 19 countries. This caused a long day at the course!! The course is not all that difficult but four out of the six upstreams were on the last straight of the course. This put me in a little bit of a pickle thinking that I should pace the top section and then kick it in for the bottom section. Unfortunately my time was down by a heap by gate 8 and I messed up the double up at the bottom. I was lucky my first run was average I ended up 34th and Qualified for the semi finals on Sunday. However there was some pretty positive things to come out of my racing. I just need to work on consistency and keeping composed.  The other kiwi men had a hard day at the river with Mike and the juniors suffering from penalties and Andrew/Bryden not even being able to race. Andrew suffering from illness. Louise and Luuka qualified for semis and will race with Shaun T tomorrow. For me ill be chilling out drinking coffee and fill in the day before racing Sunday.

K1 Mens Top 40 qualify for semi finals

Aaron Osborne 34th

Callum Gibb 49th

Mike Dawson 50th

Malcom Gibson 64th

Carl Whitehead 69th out of 86

C2 Mens top 20 qualify for semi finals

Ben Gibb/Bradyn Church 16th

Bryden Nicholas/Shaun Higgens 17th out of 20

K1 Ladies Top 30 qualify for semi finals

Louise Jull 21st

Luuka Jones 26th

Jane Nicholas 32nd

Nikki Whitehead 33rd

Ella Nicholas 34th

Kelly Travers 43rd out of 46

C1 Mens Top 30 qualify for semi finals

Shaun Travers 26th

Haven Bellemy 32nd out of 38