Press Release
From The British Land Junior & Childrens Ski Championships
Meribel, France.
Day 3 Childrens Super G.
The final challenge of The British Land Childrens Championships proved the
toughest of the event for the young skiers with a fast Super G set to take
advantage of the sharp snap overnight freeze which left Meribelıs Du Corbey
piste slick and fast. With relatively flat light and 120 boys and 61 girls
racing there were several nasty bumps to be negotiated. It proved a course
almost worthy of world cup, requiring good technical skills, fundamental course
inspection skills and a major measure of courage.
As a showcase for young British skiers for Snowsport GBıs Patron HRH Prince
Edward, the Earl of Wessex, who enjoyed his first day at the championships,
there could have been no better display.
British Children's Team members Aaron Tipping, 13, (Sidcup) held off the
challenge from Frankie Clough, 13 (Chelmsford). Clough trains locally in Meribel
and finished only 24 hundredths of a second behind. In the younger age-group
(Children 1, Year of Birth 1991-1992) Chatel, Switzerland based Harry Brown
carried on his run of success by adding the Super G title to the Giant Slalom he
won on Monday, while the girls' overall title went to Hannah Wright (Harpenden)
and the Girls Children 1 to French based Abigail McMahon.
Results: The British Land Childrenıs National Ski Championships.
Meribel, France.
Children 2 (Year of Birth 1989-90)
Boys: 1 A Tipping (Sidcup) 1-02.25,
2 F Clough (Chelmsford/DHO) 1-02.49,
3 C Chan (France) 1:03.52,
Children 1 (Year of Birth 1991-92):
1 H Brown (Chatel, France, British Ski Academy) 1:03.66,
2 J Evans (Stoke Poges/Kandahar) 1:05.75,
3 J Filsell (Alloa/British Ski Academy) 1:05.88.
Girls: Children 2:
1 H Wright (Harpenden/British Ski Academy) 1:07.97,
2 K Bruce (Edinburgh/Scottish Ski Club) 1:08.13,
3 A Emerton (Thames Ditton/Sandown Park SC) 1:08.48.
Children 1:
1 A McMahon (Fauverges, France) 1:09.19,
2 A Rennie (Edinburgh) 1:09.87.
3 D Polley (Muckahrt) 1:11.52.