Paddle England’s Athlete Support Fund is open for a third and final round of applications from eligible English athletes competing internationally this year.
The purpose of the fund is to provide some financial assistance to support athletes competing at British or English team representative competitions.
Deadline for applications in this window closes on Monday 26th August.
To apply and to check eligibility, please visit the website page here for more information.
Please see below the selection notes for the 2024 World Championships and the 2025 Under 14 and Under 16 Development Trip as well as the Assessment Data used to support selections.
We would like to congratulate the athletes on their selections to their respective teams.
As per the 2024 Selection Policy (published here), any requests to review the selections must be made in writing to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Nanette North at Marathon Selectors [email protected] within 48 hours of the publication of this document, i.e. by 6:30pm on Thursday 14th August 2024.
The lead assessments for the World Championships 2024 takes place this weekend, 10th-11th August, at Falcon Canoe Club. Standard entries close Friday at 9pm, although entries are possible until 1pm on the day. Live entries can be found here: Assessment Entries
The program sees the K2 / C2 racing on Saturday 10th and K1 / C1 on Sunday 11th. Note that Sunday is looking very hot at 28 degrees. We remind all athletes to ensure they have the right clothing, sun protection, hydration and nutrition for the conditions.
Following the European Championships, the following athletes have secured pre-selection onto the team:
James Russell – Senior Men K1
Tim Lodge – Para
Jon White – Para
Shaun Cook – Para
We would like to congratulate these athletes on their achievements. Please note this leaves only one place for the Para team which will be selected by benchmarking cross class. Further selections for SMK1 can only be achieved through securing a release place. Please ensure you have read and understand section 3.3 of the policy.
If you are seeking selection for the World Championships, you must have completed an availability form. Note the deadline has now passed (7th August at 10pm).
Please find a full list of available athletes below. If your name is not on this list but you still seeking selection, please contact Kat Wilson urgently.
First Name
Last Name
Club
Category
Interested Classes
Fay
Lamph
Wey
SWK
K2
Melissa
Johnson
Chelmsford
SWK
K1
Emma
Russell
Chelmsford Canoe Club
SWK
K1, K2
Freya
Peters
Richmond Canoe Club
U23 WK
K1
Sam
Martyn
Wey
U23 WK
K2
Katie
Brookes
Exeter
U23 WK
K1, K2
Elise
Montagna
Royal Canoe Club
U23 WK
K2
Nerys
Hall
Wey
U23 WK
K2
Greta
Roeser
WEY
U23 WK
K1, K2
Annabel
Hutchinson
Reading Canoe Club
JWK
K1, K2
Mollie
Ball
Devizes Canoe Club
JWK
K1, K2
Kamila
Sklenarova
Norwich canoe club
JWK
K1, K2
George
Durden
Elmbridge
SMK
K2
Albert
Hicks
Norwich
SMK
K1, K2
Matthew
Johnson
Chelmsford
SMK
K1, K2
James
Russell
Chelmsford
SMK
K1
Finn
Cadell
Nottingham Kayak Club
SMK
K1, K2
Matthew
Collinge
Fowey
SMK
K1, K2
Timothy
Dowden
Norwich
U23 MK
K1, K2
Benji
Cabrera
Fowey
U23 MK
K1
Daniel
Sklenar
Norwich Canoe Club
U23 MK
K1
Flynn
Holt
Richmond
JMK
K1, K2
Joseph
Enoch
Nottingham Kayak Club
JMK
K1, K2
Lochlain
Lovell
Worcester
JMK
K1, K2
William
Short
Elmbridge
JMK
K1, K2
Jack
Niland
Falcon Oxford
JMK
K2
Alexander
Worgan
Richmond
JMK
K1, K2
Marcell
Nagy
RDG
JMK
K1
Malachi
Grant
Nottingham Kayak Club
JMK
K1, K2
Owen
Chisholm
Richmond canoe club
JMC
C1
Andrew
Elliot
Richmond Canoe Club
JMC
C1
Lucy
Keyworth
Leamington Spa
Para
KL1
Shaun
Cook
Norwich
Para
VL2
For more information on the selection policy and process, please refer to the selection policy: 2024 Selection Policy . If you have any further questions please direct them to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Nanette North, via email [email protected]
It is European Championships week and the team of junior, senior, under 23, para and even masters paddlers will be competing across all days this week in Poznan, Poland. Masters racing kicked off today with the K1 races and tomorrow will be the turn of the K2 races. The main European Championship races will start from Wednesday 24th July, with some of the para classes, and run until Sunday 28th July.
Start lists and live results for all events can be found here. Any live updates from our British team will be shared via our social media platforms.
The last selections for 2024 will be announced week commencing 12th August. There are two teams that will form part of this announcement:
U14/U16 Development team: selected from the age group races at the National Championships held on the 13/14th July in Reading.
World Championships (including Para): lead assessments to be held on the 10/11th August at Falcon Canoe Club. Information and entries can be found here: Entries
If you are seeking selection for either event, you need to complete an availability form by 22:00 on the 7th August. Forms can be found here:
If you have any questions about the forms, please direct them to Kat Wilson [email protected].
For more information on the selection policy and process, please refer to the selection policy: 2024 Selection Policy. If you have any further questions please direct them to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Nanette North, via email [email protected].
Thank you to all competitors, clubs, volunteers and spectators who made the National Canoe Marathon Championships 2024 at Reading such a success, particularly Reading Canoe Club for hosting and organising.
There were a number of medals not claimed at the prize giving on both days. If you made a podium position but have not collected your medal, please email our secretary here.
At the end of Prize Giving on Sunday, there are normally two club trophies awarded: the overall club points and the junior paddlers club points. However, this year, only one set of points was read out. After a review, we have discovered that the wrong points and podium was read out for the overall club points awards. The points announced were instead those for the junior club points and the overall club points were not announced. We apologise for this mistake and any disappointment this might cause.
Below are the correct points for both trophies. Congratulations to Wey Kayak Club for winning both the overall club points and the junior club points trophies.
We will be in contact with clubs directly to arrange the correct plate awarding.
This weekend sees Reading play host to the biggest annual canoe marathon event in the country. We are super excited to see some tight racing and who manages to claim (or reclaim!) national championship titles.
Whether you are a member of the canoe marathon community or someone who has never watched canoe marathon before, there are lots of ways you can follow along with all the action over both days of racing.
In Person and Locally
If you are local to Reading, head down The Thames Promenade (RG1 8BD) from 9am on Saturday 13th or 8:30am on Sunday 14th to catch some racing in person. There will be commentary, food stands, trade stands, starts, finishes and one of the two portages taking place in this location so lots of action to watch! Racing will typically finish around 4:30pm each day. A particular highlight will be the Mixed K2 (2-person Kayak) race on Sunday starting at 3:30pm. Check out some of the links below for further information.
Online
Throughout the weekend, the Marathon Racing Committee and Reading Canoe Club will be providing coverage via live streams, stories and posts on their social media channels, particularly their Instagram’s. Click the names above to gain access to both accounts.
There will also be live results published throughout the day via the live results tab on our website.
The Safety Advisory Panel provides guidance and advice to Paddle UK to support safety practice within all aspects of paddlesport. The panel comprises of the Director of Recreation and Development, External Safety Advisor, Safety Lead, representatives from each of the National Associations: Canoe Wales, Paddle Scotland, and the Canoe Association of Northern Ireland, RNLI representative, and four independent volunteer advisors who are appointed for their knowledge and expertise within the safety industry and or paddlesport. Occasionally, other relevant representatives are to attend where appropriate.
Paddle UK is now looking for a new independent member who will complement the existing skills within the group. For more information, visit their website here.
Thank you to Paul Dimmock for providing this write-up and for being Team Manager on the trip.
K4 racing in Spain is second to none with some 70 K4’s racing in the Spanish Federations annual Regional, National and International K4 5km races. Great Britain had two relatively young crews competing in the K4 International events involving a Saturday race in Sanabria and a Sunday race in Valladolid. We certainly fielded the youngest boats in both the women’s and men’s fields, and the racing was both exciting and a huge learning opportunity of K4 racing against some of the best paddlers in the world; an experience which will assist all the athletes in their athletic careers.
The Senior Men K4 Crew were: William Stroud (Chelmsford Canoe Club), Sam Cribbett (Nottingham Kayak Club), Finn Cadell (Nottingham Kayak Club), Gabriel Popham-Coveley (Falcon Canoe Club).
The Senior Women K4 Crew were: Nerys Hall (Wey Kayak Club), Freya Peters (Richmond Canoe Club), Jessie Urquhart (Nottingham Kayak Club), Matilda Enoch (Nottingham Kayak Club).
The Spanish hospitality, like the weather, was very warm and the Federation could not have been anymore supportive, not just to us but the Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Germany, and Denmark. The international line up, including of course the hosts Spain, assured our athletes some fast and furious racing. As Sam Cribbett, who stroked the Senior Men K4, found out when lining up against multiple World Championship medallist Adrian Boros stroking the Hungarian K4, racing Internationally in K4 is not for the faint-hearted and Sam rose to the challenge. Technical problems besieged the men’s boat, but they pushed on with great heart to beat the Danish.
The girls experimented with different combinations for the two races. Jessie stroked at the first race and Freya at the second, both combinations were equally strong. On Sunday, the women unfortunately had rudder issues after the 2nd turn and were robbed of the result they deserved but like the our men’s crew pulled hard in the second half of the race and managed to keep the German crew behind them.
For Great Britain, the results didn’t reflect the team spirit or the tenacity each paddler put into the two races. I’m confident that we will see more of these eight athletes as they grow their athletic careers and develop into world class paddlers in their own right. There’s no better way for Marathon Racing Committee to achieve its objective of developing athletes in international racing than through crew boat racing on this scale. It is through our engagement in racing, athletes will grow in their personal ability, learn the subtle complexity of crew boat racing and ensure the love of racing is the essential ingredient of long-term success.
The Spanish Federation facilitated superb racing and were the perfect hosts and should be congratulated for ensuring all the National Teams were part of a K4 racing spectacular.
Final word for the athletes Finn, Gabriel, Sam, Will, Freya, Matilda, Nerys and Jessie, who all are relatively new to senior racing, showed great potential and all conducted themselves with maturity way beyond their years.
Due to logistical difficulties, the Marathon Racing Committee (MRC) will be unable to send an Under 14 & Under 16 development team to the French Nationals event in 2024. However, the Selection committee recognises the importance of this opportunity to many of the young athletes and remain committed to athlete development. Therefore, the National Marathon Championships, at Reading Canoe Club on 13th and 14th July, will remain a selection event for Under 14 and Under 16 athletes. The MRC are making arrangements for the selected athletes to attend the German National Championships, or an international equivalent race in Spring 2025, in place of the French Nationals. The provisional date for the German National Championships is 9-11th May 2025.
All athletes who are racing in the Under 14 and Under 16 event categories at the 2024 National Marathon Championships who are wishing to be considered for selection must complete the below availability form by 22:00 on the 7th August.
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