Several NI surfers made it through to the finals (last 4). Thought I'd stick their results up here.

Ladies IC - Erica Chisholm 4th

Grand Masters HP - Kevin Quinn 1st

Juniors IC - Chris Hobson 1st
Corin King 2nd
Alan Knox 3rd

Junior HP - Chris Hobson 4th

Masters IC - Richard Hobson 4th

Open IC - Jonny Bingham 4th

Congratulations to all the finalists, especially our two new World Champions Chris and Kevin.

Up again this morning at earlier than seven and on the road by half- big day with a new competition between the top 4 teams all gunning for top spot. Ups and downs with firsts and 4ths took it down to the wire with our second count back of the contest to go in our favour left us in second place with the basques as champions and the jerseys and english in third and 4th respectively.

Mike Barton "We are delighted and i am very proud of all of our team"
Jonny Bingham "Absolutely stoked. Result of years of hard work"
Mark Taylor (fresh faced fermanagh boy) "Pain is temporary trophies last forever and second is first place for losers."
Corin King "Sweet!!!"




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an exciting day today with many ups and downs. the team event hung in the balance with crucial points given away to leave england, basque, jersey all qualified and ni drawn with usa west and after a tense countback we came out on top with one more first place.

the afternoon saw the ladies, juniors and grand masters long and short boat finals

will keep you all udated tomorrow
cheers
chloe






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All the results are appearing on the link below.


http://kayaksurfchampionship.blogspot.com/

team event on bakio beach yesterday with both competition sites offering some heavy sets but the biggest being on site A (at the east end of the strand). no broken boats or people yet thankfully and some impressive surfing. ni are still in the mix for finals qualification but a good deal rests on round 2. this started with a pre-sunrise call to go to mundaka where the first 7 heats ran on small surf before the event was moved back to bakio only to be postponed a few hours later due to a lack of swell and too high a tide. next call at 8am tomorrow in bakio will keep you posted.

slainte
chloe




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not all the results are in yet but so far chloe and erica have qualified for r2 in both classes
Jonny and dessie were the only men to get through through r1 in both ic and hp.
Richard made it in the masters hp with a 1st place
The grand masters results still havnt been posted.
The juniors are not up until wednesday.
We are not sure what will be run tomorrow but mike is at a meeting now so we will now soon.




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mundaka training still going well. big multi-team welcome party at the ni house last night might be some photos of that to follow. boat check in was this am all godd for that too.
over and out
chloe


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mundaka training


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The draw has been made for the 1st round. Check it at:


2007%20Worlds%20Round%201%20heats.xls