Snowsport GB 2007-04-05 17:05:00
After ten
days of favourable weather at the British Land National Ski Championships
today’s Children’s Giant Slalom was contested in mixed visibility and regular
snowfall which tested the younger, less experienced athletes’ ability to
inspect and recall the testing courses. The race track was moved higher up the
Du Corbey piste so that the steep finish pitch into the Stade was eliminated,
but the rolling, twisting sections high on the course still proved a worthy
challenge, particularly on the Boys’ first course. Ruts developed and a
difficult drop off a sharp hairpin caught out many in the flat, poor light.
Overall
winner of the Boys title was Nicholas Moynihan (13, Longfield, Kent). After
leading by just one hundredth of a second ahead of Devon’s Dan Hall (14,
Ipplepen), Moynihan was the only skier to break 47 seconds in the second run,
setting the quickest time of 46.83 seconds. Despite still being in the younger
Children 1 (Year of Birth 1994 & 1995) age-group Moynihan won outright,
ahead of Meribel trained Jack Breton (14, Chichester) who finished runner up
and won the Children 2 age-group. Breton has been consistent these past two
days, also finishing runner-up in the Slalom yesterday: “It was pretty rutted
on the second run especially but I skied it OK. I am a bit annoyed they did not
use the Stade because it is steep and can be icy and I like it like that, I
don’t like it so much flat as it was today, but I feel like I am skiing well at
the moment.” Said Breton.
In the
Girls Giant Slalom Emily Evans (12, Chatham, Kent) won the overall title. She
lay fifth after the first run but overturned the 2.10 seconds deficit with the
quickest second run to win by 41 hundredths of a second. As Moynihan did in the
Boys field, Evans also won the outright Giant Slalom title while still in the
Children 1 age-group, while Chldren 2 Girl’s Giant Slalom went to Toni
Hodgkinson.
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Giant
Slalom |
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Boys: |
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1 |
N
Moynihan |
(Longfield,
Kent) |
46.13 |
46.83 |
1:32.96 |
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2 |
J Breton
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(Chichester)
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46.17 |
47.08 |
1:33.25 |
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3 |
D Hall |
(Ippleden,
Devon) |
46.14 |
47.56 |
1:33.70 |
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Girls: |
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1 |
E Evans |
(Chatham,
Kent) |
47.22 |
47.40 |
1:34.62 |
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2 |
T
Hodkinson |
(New
South Wales, Australia) |
47.20 |
47.83 |
1:35.03 |
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3 |
C Guest |
(Perth) |
47.54 |
49.09 |
1:36.63 |
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Children
1 (Year of Birth 1994 & 1995): |
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Boys: |
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1 |
Moynihan |
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2 |
Z Jesse |
(Camberley, Surrey) |
47.99 |
48.09 |
1:36.08 |
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3 |
E Willson |
(Leigh on Sea, Essex) |
48.08 |
48.92 |
1:37.00 |
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Girls: |
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1 |
Evans |
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2 |
I Taylor |
(Ascot) |
48.80 |
49.40 |
1:38.20 |
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3 |
A Macey |
(Solihull) |
49.64 |
48.86 |
1:38.50. |