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Some News and Results about the 2002/03 Snow Races
These are in reverse chronological order of event. At the end is a list of
Regional Skiers in National Squads together with links to
their FIS pages where appropriate.
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The English Alpine Ski Championships -
14-19 April at Puy St. Vincent, France
- There were some excellent performances from LSERSA racers in these championships with
Ed Drake comfortably winning the overall Junior title, following on from his success at the
British
Junior Championships, and Peter Whelan comfortably winning the overall Children 2 title.
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- In the Junior/Senior Super G Overall first place, and the Gold Medals in the
Junior 1 event, were taken by both Rebecca O'Neill
and Ed Drake. The Silver Medal in the Junior 1 Men's event went to
James Bennett, who was third overall.
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- In the Junior/Senior Giant Slalom the Gold Medal in the Junior 1 Men's event
went to Ed Drake, who was second overall.
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- In the Junior/Senior Slalom the Gold Medal in the Junior 1 Men's event
went to Ed Drake, who was second overall, with James Bennett taking the Silver.
The Bronze Medal in the Junior 2 event went
to Marc Telling.
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- In the Children's Super G LSERSA (in fact SPSRC) skiers filled the podium in
the Children 2
category Boy's race
with Peter Whelan first, Peter Bruton second and
Christopher John third.
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- In the Mini's Giant Slalom
Alessia Thomas-Jackson was first overall with Natalia Harte and
Emily Evans the second and third English girls behind three New Zealanders.
In the Boy's race Luke Laidlaw came second.
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- In the Children's Slalom the first place overall went to Peter Whelan
with Frankie Clough
taking the Silver in the Children's 1 category.
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- In the Children's Giant Slalom the second place in Children 2 went to Peter Whelan with
Christopher John third.
Frankie Clough
took the Gold in the Children's 1 category with Jack Evans picking up the Bronze Medal.
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- In the Mini's Giant Slalom Championship the Gold Medal went to
Alessia Thomas-Jackson.
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- Congratulations to the above and all those other LSERSA
skiers who also did well in the Championships.
- Full Program & Results.
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The British Junior & Children's Ski Championships -
6-11 April at Pitztal, Austria
- There were some excellent performances from LSERSA racers in these championships with
Katrina Head comfortably winning the Overall title of British Junior Champion and Helena Bray
retaining her title of British Girls Champion. Aaron Tipping was joint Overall
Children 1 Boy's champion.
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- In the Slalom the Silver Medal went to Katrina Head, following her success in the
British Seniors where, amongst other prizes,
she won the
Ladies Junior Downhill title. In the Men's event
Ed Drake finished 5th and took the Gold medal for the Junior 1 category.
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- The Giant Slalom saw Katrina Head going one better and claiming the top step of the podium
finishing first overall.
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- In the Super G the top step of the podium again went to
Katrina Head who finished first overall.
In the Men's event Jamie Miles picked up the Gold
Medal with Ed Drake again finishing 5th, this time
claiming the Silver Medal for the Junior 1 category.
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- In the Children's Super G, last year's winner, Helena Bray, retained
her title. Greg Samuels
came second in the Boy's event where Frankie Clough came second in the Children 1 category
beating Aaron Tipping into third place by three hundredths of a second.
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- In the Children's Giant Slalom, the top step of the podium was again claimed by
Helena Bray.
In the Boy's event Aaron Tipping came fourth and picked up the Children 1 category Gold Medal.
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- In the Children's Slalom the Bronze Medal went to Helena Bray and Fern Barker
finished 5th taking the Gold Medal for the Children 1 category. In the Boy's race
Peter Whelan came third in Children 2 just behind Aaron Tipping
who was third overall and first in the Children 1 category.
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- In the BARSC organised races for Minis third place in the Super G
Girls and Boys events went to Alessia Thomas-Jackson and Luke Laidlaw. In the
Giant Slalom third place in the Girl's event went to Abbi Gibbs while
Luke Laidlaw claimed the Gold Medal in the Boy's event.
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- Congratulations to the above and all those other LSERSA
skiers who also did well in the Championships.
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Full Results and Press Releases.
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Austrian National Championships - 28-30 March at Altenmarkt, Austria
- Having won everything she could have at the British Championships, Chemmy Alcott
decided to
take on the Austrians in their own National Championships and came third in the Super G, less than a second
behind Obermoser and Dorfmeister. Chemmy is now ranked in the top 100 for three of the four alpine disciplines
(DH - 89, GS - 74 and SG - 64).
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The British Land National Ski Championships -
16-21 March at Tignes, France
- There were some excellant performances from LSERSA racers in these races with Chemmy Alcott
easily retaining her overall title (Victor Ludorum - The John Ritblat Cup).
Additionally Katrina Head picked up the McLeod Trophy for the best placed British Lady not in the British Team
and the Inghams Trophy for Most Promising Lady Skier, and
Ed Drake was presented with
the Spence Trophy for British Under 18 Male Champion.
- In the Downhill Chemmy Alcott
led a clean sweep of the podium places for LSERSA in the Ladies' Senior championships with
Joanne Greig second and Katrina Head third. Katrina also won the Cup for the
best placed Briton not in the British Team.
The Junior championship race, run immediately
afterwards on the same course, saw them finish in the same order with Katrina being crowned Ladies' Junior Champion.
Jamie Miles was placed third in the Men's Junior championship.
- In the Super-G the Ladies repeated the Downhill result with
Chemmy Alcott, Joanne Greig and Katrina Head again filling the first three places.
Johnny Moulder-Brown was third in the Men's race.
- In the Giant Slalom LSERSA skiers were triumphant.
Chemmy Alcott again claimed the top step of the Ladies' podium and Katrina Head
went one better than her previous races and finished second. Katrina again won the Cup for the
best placed Briton not in the British Team.
Johnny Moulder-Brown finished ahead of the rest of the British Team to take first place in the Men's race.
- In the Slalom the top step of the Ladies' podium again belonged to
Chemmy Alcott with Joanne Greig in second spot.
Johnny Moulder-Brown finished third in the Men's race behind the Baxter brothers. Ed Drake
won the Cup for the
best placed Briton under the age of 18.
- Programme, Full Results and Press Releases
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BSA Inter School Ski Challenge - 13/14 March at Les Houches, France
- Aaron Tipping, one of our leading Children 1 skiers, excelled at these races by
winning both the Slalom overall and winning his age group in the Giant Slalom,
where he was placed 4th overall which was good enough to make him overall champion.
- Josh Doughty, who had earlier in the season claimed a Gold Medal in the GS and a Silver Medal in the Slalom
whilst skiing for the British Children's Team in Turkey, picked up both Gold Medals in the Children 2
category at these races.
- Slalom Results and
Giant Slalom Results
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2003 World Alpine Ski Championships
- 1-16 February at St Moritz, Switzerland
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Chemmy Alcott and Johnny Moulder-Brown
were part of the
British Team
and Alex Heath and Michael Shnaps
were part of the South African Team.
For results please see
www.stmoritz2003.com/001stm_00_en.htm
and the SnowsportGB Press Releases.
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European Youth Olympic
Festival - 26-31 January at Bled, Slovenia
- Ed Drake
represented Great Britain at these games. Tim Fawke, who used to
be one of LSERSA's top ski racers, was one of the
trainers. The team trained at The British Training
Facility in Lofer for the week before the games. See the
British
Olympic web site, which has a full team list and the
European Youth Olympic site for results
- Regional Skiers in National Squads
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Last updated: 08:00 GMT April 24, 2002
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