Young Hawke s Bay rowing crew claim championship glory at nationals
25 Feb, 2021 11:50 PM
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Hawke s Bay rowing s national champion women s novice eight. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
The Hawke s Bay Rowing Club is revelling in the successes of some of the younger members in its big turnout for the national championships last week on premier South Island course Lake Ruataniwha. The club won two novice titles – with the successful women s novice coxed four crew of Lauren Downing, Amelia Taylor, Martine Sandberg, Alice Young and coxswain Georgia Tizard being joined by clubmates Katya Drinnan, Hannah Ritchie, Aimee Argent and Molly Lawson to claim the eights as well.
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The victorious MBC rowing crew, who won a national title. (L-R) Coxswain Walter Wickham (14), Stroke Fred Vavasour (17), Sam Feltham (17), Dylan Burton (17), Leon Poswillo (16), and Ashley-James Fitzgerald (16). Vavasour and Burton won a second gold in Pairs. Absent; Rhys Salvador.
A group of Marlborough schoolboys, rowing in an eight together for the very first time, squeezed out older and more experienced competition to snatch a national title and gold medal in Twizel. Despite never having trained together the chemistry of the composite crew “just clicked” the triumphant Marlborough Boys College rowing team said about their gold medal win at the rowing nationals.
Manaakitanga remains important for Ngāti Korokī Kahukura as kaitiaki of the Karāpiro Valley.
Lake Karāpiro is a famous sports park where world-class competitions take place and champions compete, but few would know about the hurt and pain its construction caused. Lawrence Gullery reports. On a warm summer morning, teams of young rowers speed across the surface of Lake Karāpiro, preparing to become the sport’s next international champions. Most are oblivious that below the surface of the lake lie some of the most sacred places and memories for iwi, in particular Ngāti Hauā and Ngāti Korokī Kahukura.
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It takes about half a day to set up their tent. They normally target the four weeks in between the final rowing regatta of the year at the lake and the National Waka Ama Sprint Championships, the first major event of the new year. It’s not hard to identify their tent, it stretches over two regular camping sites. It is the third they’ve used at Lake Karapiro over the years, and is 20 years old now. It measures 17ft x 14ft (5.1m x 4.2m) with a 9ft sun room (2.7m x 2.7m) and 8ft awning (2.4m x 2.4m).
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Kaye Surgenor with her world record-breaking son Robbie Manson, who this year retired from elite rowing, while his mum became more and more involved in coaching the sport.
She’s raised the world’s fastest rower. Now Kaye Surgenor is diving deeper into coaching the sport – and taking her mothering skills with her. All the while Kaye Surgenor was raising her three sons, she wanted to return to the sport she loves. And when her youngest, Karl Manson, took up rowing, followed by his older brother, Robbie, that was the catalyst for Surgenor to take the plunge. She’d been a good rower herself, a winner at Maadi Cup secondary school level, and national champion with the Canterbury and Wairau clubs.