New Caledonia is hosting the
Outrigging World Sprint Championships in May 2010, fourteen
years after hosting the first Championships. 2500 athletes and
officials from 32 affiliated countries will compete over five
days in 53 events.
Australia will have a contingent of approximately 130 paddlers,
including eighteen women from Far North Queensland.
 Cairns Coach, Tuki Brown, has made team selections from Far
North Queensland Outrigging clubs from Mackay, Townsville,
Cairns and Port Douglas.
Paddlers from these clubs have been training together since
February 2009 at Lake Tinaroo.
FNQ crews are:
Master Women (over 35s)
Leigh Page; Mary Holland; Iva Wright; Jan Mitchell; Emma Morgan;
Maata Strecker
Senior Masters 1 (over 45s)
Jenny DeWitt; Lyn Nolan; Monica Halbert; Faye Lilley; Lisa
Ahrens; Anne Williams
Senior Masters 2 (over 45s)
Deb Maynard; Kris Bishop; Loren Van Soest; Carolyn Paterson;
Michelle Lynes; Andrea Bowring.
Teams will be competing in the V6 and V12 events as well as
individual V1 events.
The racesite will be at Anse Vata Beach, Noumea, with racing
commencing on 25th May 2010.
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NEWS
All members of the FNQ squad are competing to a World Standard -
the results speak for themseves!
Tuki Brown
(Coach), says this is the most pleasing FNQ squad
that he has taken away to the World Sprints, on many
levels, especially seeing the whole squad standing
on the medal dais in the V12 divisions.
- The official race
program is now out (in French) but you can get the
gist of it - click here :
TIMETABLE
- You may send the
team encouragement via email below and it will be
posted on this website
- News photographs
and results will also be posted here as they come to
hand : bookmark this site
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Australian Representative Team Members - Master Women,
Senior Masters 1 &
2
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