2007 World Cup Prague Qualifications

2007 World Cup Qualifications Prague

Mark in Action

Strong fields turned up for all classes for the first World Cup in Prague. The seniors raced the qualifications last night with Michael Dawson putting down two consistent and clean runs to be the only NZ’er to advance to the semi finals this Sunday. While the NZ’ers were racing qualifications their vehicle was broken into and James and Mike had their laptops, camera and the team gear was stolen. Hopefully their laptops will turn up as they have all their Uni work, photos, races and training programmes on them. With out managers and coaches to support and keep an eye on things while racing is on it is a difficult road. Mike now needs to keep his focus for the semi-finals on Sunday.

The course was technically demanding and challenging.

C1 Men- with 58 highly competitive competitors Mark picked up a few penalties and James an unfortunate 50. After only getting a replacement boat on Sunday James had four short training days to get familiar with his new kayak.
Mark Yungnickel 49th, James Dawson 54th

K1W- with 61 world class women racing the NZL women had too many touches to advance
Tania Perrett 51st
Luuka Jones 55th

K1M- with a top class field of 76 competitors, Johann had clean runs and Aaron with touches left only Mike advancing to the semi-finals
Mike Dawson 26th
Johann Roozenburg 43rd
Aaron Osborne 51st

Full results
http://www.slalomtroja.cz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=167

2007 C1 Boat Stolen

James has just had his new C1 boat for a week in Europe and it as been stolen from the secure lock up in Augsburg. The Germans have indicated this has happened a number of times in recent times. With the Europeans Opens on it is proving difficult to find a boat to train and Galasport only return to their factory today. With the World cup races beginning in a week or so this is an issue.

His boat is a C1 Galasport loco and is carbon in colour

Anyone who hears any news please contact James.

2007 Senior Team Update Augsburg

With only Luuka and Johann to arrive the tempo is picking up. The team are in Augsburg at the moment for some nore serious training and preparation for the World Cups. Kidda will be helping them with some coaching again this month

Mike and Aaron Clowning Around

2007 Czech University Slalom

After arriving in Prague the night before and heading to the boathouse Mike, Tania, Aaron and Mark managed to talk themselves into the CZ Uni Games startlist in Prague . Their results are classified as unofficial as it was open only to CZ uni students. The fields were small and a low key race l but some reputable paddlers l still lined up in the starting gates

The CZ results collator is going to send through results as NZ isn't mentioned in their official results.

Unofficially

Mike Dawson 5th
Aaron Osborne 9th
Mark 7th
Tania 8th

2007 Slovenian Open nationals Dawson finishes 5th

Slovenian Open 2007
SCHENKER POKAL SLOVENIJE 2007
Tacen - Ljubljana

With 98 K1 men international competitors Michael Dawson put down an excellent run to end 5th in semi- finals and with a top 10 position headed into the finals of the Slovenian Open Nationals 2007 . With a star studded line up the pressure was on and he worked hard to maintain his composure and focus after a touch in the finals race keeping his position to finish in 5th place at the Slovenian Open Nationals. The best result of any Kiwi since the days when Donald Johnston competed.

Aaron Osborne K1 men 50th, Mark Yungnickel C1 men 30th out of a field of 52 and Tania Perrett K1 Women 28th out of 33 K1 women

Final Results

ttp://www.kajak-zveza.si/eng/show/m11/datoteke_odpri.asp?IDdat=298

1 84 COSTA Luca ITA 56.56 0 56.56 0.00
2 101 KAUZER Peter SLO 57.51 0 57.51 +0.95
3 99 KRALJ Dejan SLO 58.66 0 58.66 +2.10
4 93 PONTAROLLO Matheo ITA 57.96 2 59.96 +3.40
5 34 DAWSON Michael NZL 58.78 2 60.78 +4.22
6 75 LAZNIK Gregor SLO 58.94 2 60.94 +4.38
7 97 MEGLIC Jure SLO 60.94 2 62.94 +6.38
8 92 KODELJA Uroš SLO 57.29 6 63.29 +6.73
9 85 EWALD Jens GER 56.01 50 106.01 +49.45
10 91 KURT Michael SUI 56.37 52 108.37 +51.81