Rowers feature at Canty champs

A third placing in the premier pair was one many highlights from the Wairau contingent at the recent Canterbury Rowing Championships at Lake Ruataniwha.

The Wairau pair of Fred Vavasour and Reuben Cook joined forces and, with only one week’s training together, turned in a top effort.

Reuben, who was back in the country on a break from his US university, plans to return to Wairau next summer and continue his partnership with Fred, who will be focussing on the open single for the forthcoming South Island Champs on January 28-29.

Wairau also had a group of five club rowers at the Canterbury regatta, their highlight coming with victory in the men's club four, with Hugh Straker, Tristan Gregory-Hunt, Liam Collins and Joe Hughes on board. Hugh and Tristan also finished second in the men's club pair while Liam finished third in the men's club single.

Four of that group will join forces with four schoolboys to race the club eight at the SI champs, as well as racing in the singles, four and quad.

The SI champs will provide a guideline to the make-up of boats and athletes the club will target for the national champs on February 14-18, also at Lake Ruataniwha.

Wairau’s leading A final results:

GOLD

Men’s club four (Tristan Gregory-Hunt, Hugh Straker, Liam Collins, Joe Hughes)

Girls U17 coxed four (Grace Straker, Bella Rayner, Brooke Harper, Mila Van Rensberg, Grace McKendry – cox)

Men’s U19 eight (George Lindstrom, Shane Henry, Dylan Locke, Zac Jenkins, Louis Girling, Jock Flanagan, Walter Wickham, Hamish Lindstrom, Blake Pitts – cox)

SILVER

Men’s club pair (Tristan Gregory-Hunt, Hugh Straker)

Women’s senior coxless pair (Emma Flanagan, Lexi Timpson)

Women’s intermediate coxed four (Izzy Brick, Bella Rayner, Charlotte Thomas, Harriet McLauchlan, Tessa Unwin – cox)

Girls U17 eight (Jessica Bennet, Hazel Glover, Grace Straker, Izzy Brick, Brooke Harper, Mila Van Rensberg, Ella Barnes, Bella Rayner, Molly Wilkes – cox)

Men’s club single (Hugh Straker)

Girls U15 coxed four (Amelia Clementine-Hood, Georgette Herkt, Anna Hurren, Katie Fenwick, Pippa Sowman – cox)

BRONZE

Men’s premier pair (Fred Vavasour, Reuben Cook)

Boys U16 coxed quad (Hamish Lindstrom, Jock Flanagan, Louis Girling, Oliver Wakelin, Jack Shaw – cox)

Men’s open octuple scull (Willem Rowe, Henare Panaho, Drew Materoa, Logan Flight, Aiden Bennett, Toby Randall, Hunter Marfell, Luke Bown, Blake Marfell – cox)

Men’s club single (Liam Collins)

Women’s novice coxed four (Lily Smith, Georgia Marfell, Ana Bailey, Olive Paterson, Lilly McMillan – cox)

Men’s U19 coxed quad (Dylan Locke, Zac Jenkins, Shane Henry, George Lindstrom, Blake Pitts - cox)

Girls U17 coxed four (Jessica Bennet, Hazel Glover, Ella Barnes, Izzy Brick, Molly Wilkes – cox)