2016 South Island Masters

4 & 5 June, Lake Hood

Union at South Islands

It’s been four years since Union last raced at a South Islands regatta at Lake Hood and that event saw racing cancelled mid morning on day 2. Add in the blown out South Islands two years ago at Dunstan Arm, and the weather gods clearly owed us a good one. Ashburton duly delivered up two great days, with Saturday being perfect and a light wind from mid morning on Sunday.

Union had a very successful regatta winning 10 golds and best club overall, as well as the trophies for the fastest long distance eight and the fastest women’s double. We also fielded the fastest woman’s quad by some considerable margin. We took a team of nearly 30 competitors to Ashburton and nearly all our boats, which was a logistical challenge but well worth the effort. All of the team, across all the age groups we were competing in, put in good performances, especially so our novices, some of whom had never raced 1000m before.

The event was very well organised on the whole, even if some of our coxed crews were disadvantaged by going up against crews which turned up in straight boats. The social event on Sunday night was a real treat, thanks to a great band and plenty of party spirit, and yes, some of us were the last to leave.

Our heartfelt thanks go Jim, for the many hours he put into all the teams in the weeks and months prior to the regatta, and also to our coxswains Dorothy, Maddie, Peter and Kim, for putting up with us and the cold temperatures.

Results: Saturday

Mixed quad

Div 1

3rd Kirsty Mahoney, Astrid Harris, Stephane Chretien, Andreas Giannakogiorgos

Div 2

1st Dale Maher, Dorle Pauli, Mike Fowler, Deb Hymers-Ross

Div 3

3rd Danny Blair, Simon Huntley, Liz Blair, Karen Rickerby

Mens novice double

2nd Brendan McKenna, Spike Crowther

Womens novice double

2nd Pam Strong-Gestel, Kirsten Frieling
4th Wendy Duggan, Shelley Washington

5km timed event

Mixed quad

2nd Brent Mirfin, Simon Huntley, Liz Blair, Mel Arnold, cox Maddie Crowther

Womens quad

3rd Kirsty Mahoney, Astrid Harris, Amanda Richards, Karen Rickerby, cox Dorothy Paton

Womens eight

1st Wendy Duggan , Pam Strong-Gestel, Kirsten Frieling, Shelley Washington, Tessa Ryder, Cath McArthur, Tanja McDonald, Antonia Luthi, cox Kim Harris

Mixed eight

1st Dale Maher, Dorle Pauli, Mike Fowler, Cynthia de Joux, Karmyn Ingram, Deb Hymers-Ross, Danny Blair, Stephane Chretien, cox Peter Gamble

Results: Sunday

Womens eight

Div 1

1st Union/ Blenheim
Dorle Pauli, Deb Hymers-Ross, Karen Rickerby, Kirsty Mahoney, Sarah Lissaman, Cynthia de Joux, Fiona McCay, Karmyn Ingram, cox Peter Gamble
2nd Wendy Duggan, Pam Strong-Gestel, Kirsten Frieling, Shelley Washington, Tessa Ryder, Cath McArthur, Tanja McDonald, Antonia Luthi, cox Kim Harris

Womens D quad

Div 1

1st Kirsty Mahoney, Astrid Harris, Dorle Pauli, Deb Hymers-Ross

Div 3

5th Amanda Richards, Mel Arnold, Tanja McDonald, Shelley Washington

Mens A-D pair

2nd Simon Huntley, Stephane Chretien

Womens novice single<

2nd Pam Strong-Gestel
3rd Tanja McDonald

Mens novice single

3rd Spike Crowther
4th Brendan McKenna

Mens A-D single

Div 2

1st Greg McLaughlin
3rd Stephane Chretien
6th Andreas Giannakogiorgos

Womens novice four

2nd Wendy Duggan, Tessa Ryder, Antonia Luthi, Cath McArthur, cox Peter Gamble

Mens novice quad

2nd Spike Crowther, Brendan McKenna, Pam Strong-Gestel, Kirsten Frieling, cox Kim Harris

Mens E-K single

Div 1

3rd Danny Blair

Div 2

2nd Dale Maher

Div 3

2nd Mike Fowler

Womens E-K double

Div 2

1st Dorle Pauli, Deb Hymers-Ross

Womens A-D single

Div 2

1st Kirsty Mahoney
7th Liz Blair

Mens A-D four

5th Brent Mirfin, Simon Huntley, Brendan McKenna, Andreas Giannakogiorgos

Mens E-K double

Div 1

2nd Mike Fowler, Danny Blair

Mens A-D double

Div 1

2nd Stephane Chretien, Andreas Giannakogiorgos

Div 2

4th Brent Mirfin, Simon Huntley

Womens novice quad

2nd Wendy Duggan, Shelley Washington, Pam Strong-Gestel, Kirsten Frieling, cox Peter Gamble
3rd Mel Arnold, Tessa Ryder, Cat McArthur, Antonia Luthi, cox Kim Harris

Mixed double

Div 2

2nd Kirsty Mahoney, Greg McLaughlin
6th Astrid Harris. Andreas Giannakogiorgos
7th Amanda Richards, Simon Huntley

Div 3

5th Brent Mirfin, Kay Rickerby

Mens E-K quad

1st Dale Maher, Mike Fowler, Danny Blair, Stephane Chretien

Womens A-D double

Div 1

6th Amanda Richards, Tanja McDonald

Div 2

2nd Kirsty Mahoney, Astrid Harris
6th Liz Blair, Mel Arnold

Div 3

2nd Deb Hymers-Ross, Karen Rickerby

Mens A-D quad

Div 1

1st Andreas Giannakogiorgos, Mike Fowler, Danny Blair, Stephane Chretien
6th Brent Mirfin, Simon Huntley, Brendan McKenna, Spike Crowther

Mixed E-K double

Div 1

1st Dale Maher, Dorle Pauli
3rd Danny Blair, Liz Blair

The results as taken from RowIT in some instances do not take into account the different age groups racing in one event, meaning that in terms of age groups, we scored a few more wins.