5 Wins for County at Loughborough Head

Loughborough Head Report

Team NCRA came away from Loughborough Head yesterday with five wins from nine entries.

In dry and largely sunny conditions, the tail wind caused some additional steering issues, on what is a tricky course to steer anyway. Athletes also had to contend with bunching caused by the narrow river, which hampered several of our crews – all good learning for the future. The wind built during the day, so crews in the later divisions may have received some advantage.

Congratulations to all our athletes and coaches who had excellent races and performed well in their categories.

W 4x (Maddy, Maya, Anna, Ebony) 1st 🥇

W J17 2x (Lulu, Martha) 1st 🥇 : (Ava, Natasha) 2nd 🥈

W 1x Ebony 1st 🥇 : Anna 2nd 🥈

W J15 2x (Ellie, Hannah) 1st 🥇

W J16 1x Martha 1st 🥇

Op J15 1x Felix 2nd 🥈 : Alexander N 3rd 🥉

The results service from Race Leader is excellent, providing not only the race time and splits but also percentage Gold Medal Time.
Some highlights :-

W 4x won by 31″ in the fastest women’s time of the day, coming 11th overall.

W J17 2x of Lulu & Martha, racing up an age group, won by over a minute with 78.6% GMT, coming 2nd overall in W2x by only 2.7″

Ava/Natasha had a good race, steering well in their first river competition, coming 2nd, 57″ ahead of Warwick.

An eventful race in w 1x with Ebony coming out narrowly ahead of Anna by 3.8″ with 78.3% GMT and would have come 5th in the Men’s category.

W J15 2x of Ellie & Hannah, 77.4% GMT, enjoyed all sides of the river winning by 22″ over Newark and would have won J18 too, only headed by Martha & Lulu in Junior Women’s 2x by 12″ and coming 3rd in W 2x.

Martha had the fastest NCRA GMT of 78.7% in her J16 1x win by 1’51”, coming 2nd in Junior Women and 4th Women 1x overall.

Felix & Alex racing in different divsions in J15, were only headed by Sleath of Loughborough who would have won J18 too and was 4th 1x overall, Felix 6th and Alex 10th.