The GB team for the Marathon World Championships 2010 has been decided, after our most successful World Cup series in recent history, and a cracking final assessment race weekend at Worcester, racing against the French worlds team.
Leading the team will be the 2009 worlds silver medallist, and 2010 world cup champion Ben Brown, aiming to put an end to the era of Spanish and South African domination in the Mens K1 class. He'll be racing alongside Jon Simmons, who has a couple of good world cup finishes to his name this year.
The men's K2 team comprises John Sawers/Andy Daniels, and Ben Bradshaw/Aaron Jordan. Andy has a marathon worlds silver medal in K2 from his junior days, while Ben and Aaron have managed a couple of top six placings in the world cup series this year.
Jenny Illidge, winner at world cup 1 and fifth at last year's worlds, is our junior ladies' K1 entry, but will double up in K2 with Laura Ferguson, along with the world cup gold medal winning crew of Alice Haws and Victoria Croucher.
Jon Tye is also doubling up, in junior men's K1, and K2 with James Webster. Albert Hicks will join Jon in the K1 race.
Claire Gunney races her first senior world championships in the senior ladies' K1, after two top six places in the world cups this year.
In the U23 races, which brought the team two medals on their introduction last year, Tim Pendle (former junior European K1 champion), and Lizzie Broughton will be representing us in the men's and women's classes respectively.
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2010 18:02
Marathon World Cup 2, Brandenburg
Monday, 05 July 2010 08:27
(Photo Ollie Harding)
The GB racing team has been announced for the second round of the Marathon World Cup, in Brandenburg on 24/25 July.
Largely unchanged from the successful team in Tyn, the team includes gold medallists Ben Brown, Jenny Illidge, Alice Haws and Vicky Croucher, and Jon Tye who will be aiming to upgrade on his bronze medal position of two weeks ago. All of the team selected placed in the top 10 at Tyn, so with the right performance a medal is possible from any of them.
The athletes selected are:-
JMK1 Jon Tye (WOR); Albert Hicks (NOR)
JWK1 Jenny Illidge (RUN)
SWK1 Claire Gunney (WEY)
SMK1 Ben Brown (ELM); Jon Simmons (WEY)
JMK2 Oli Rix/Tom Deacon (NOR/ADS)
JWK2 Vicky Croucher/Alice Haws (WEY)
SMK2 Ben Bradshaw/Aaron Jordan (NOR/MAI)
Last Updated on Monday, 05 July 2010 08:42
Team for Sanabria K4 announced
Friday, 18 June 2010 09:50
We have been invited by the organisers to send a men's K4 team for the Sanabria K4 race on 17th July.
The team chosen is Stuart West (WOR), James Mayers (RUN), Paul Yates (WEY) and Sam Willis (SOU).
The BCU junior marathon development team travelled to Gent in Belgium last weekend, to race in the annual Blaarmersen marathon.
The 25 athletes invited are all prospective GB team members in coming years, aged from 14 up to 17. Despite many being able to race in the shorter U16 race, all of them raced up as U18s for the event, over the full 18km course. The competition was tough, including competitors from Belgium and Holland who are making an impact internationally in both sprint and marathon.
All of us on the Marathon Committee are very pleased to learn that Anna Hemmings has been awarded the MBE in the 2010 New Years Honours List.
It is a fitting tribute for Anna’s dedication to the sport of canoe racing and acknowledgement of an international career that spanned more than 15 years and in which Anna became six times World Champion, as well as gaining successes in World Cups and European Championships.
Throughout her career Anna has conducted herself impeccably and has been a true ambassador for her country and her sport.
